Twenty-Two. Harry Potter is a Wuss.
Ruh oh, been a while since I updated the blog. Currently listening to Extraordinary Girl by Green Day. I must say, the first time I heard this song I didn’t quite like it, there was just something about it. Guess I never found it that special of a song, but having reheard it again all these years later, I really like it. Dammit past Don! Deleting this off your iTunes library was a bad idea!
Anyhow, I recently watched HP7 (Finally!) and to make up for being a bad Harry Potter Fanboy and not watching it on the day of release, I watched it twice. In theatres. Overall, I liked the movie, it was an entertaining movie and I really like some of the cinematography. Although, Dobby’s death at the end of the movie seemed really badly done…just the whole Harry holding Dobby bit felt like they didn’t spend enough money on the special effects there…because Dobby looked like a broken animatronic (which is what I’m pretty sure what it was). Reminded me of Yoda in the original Star Wars series. Other than that though, I really enjoyed the movie (even the second time round). I can’t wait for part 2, actually I can’t wait to see when they do that “Snape’s last memory” chapter! In all honesty, throughout the whole series I felt the most interesting character was probably Snape. There’s just so much mystery surrounding his current position in the Order of the Phoenix and that of the Dark Order. What a badass Snape was.
Having grown up with the series you realize that as a kid you don’t really notice some of the flaws in the books/films until after you’ve grown up a lot more and looked back at things and realized “wait…why didn’t they just do this?”. Take for instance this Apparation thing, if everyone can apparate why didn’t they just apparate in and out of trouble? Yes I get it you can’t apparate into and out of Hogwarts, and the Ministry (unless you go from their main offices) but when they are in the fields (like in the movie, when the trio are running from the Snatchers) why didn’t they just grab hold of each other and apparate out of there? Would’ve made things a lot easier, especially since they couldn’t follow them unless they had grabbed some part of them. Another gripe about the whole series was the whole killing curse thing. Seriously, the killing curse is Avada Kedavra? That’s just a slight modification of Abra Kedabra…I swear J.K. Rowling just missed the B keys and hit V and ended up with Avada Kedavra. I mean you got Crucio for extreme pain and Imperio. Those at least sound kind of awesome and have some kind of reference to real words (I’ll assume Crucio refers to cruelty and imperio with Imperil) but seriously, Abra Kedabra is the “spell” ever magician says when they are performing their tricks for kids….and you made that the killing curse? Dang it J.K. Rowling! Way to slack on the deadliest curse of them all.
Also, does anyone else find that the whole de-illuminator thing kind of lame? I felt that Rowling wrote herself in a corner after Ron and Harry had their argument and Ron left the camp. She probably thought it’d be awesome to have some drama between Ron and Harry, to show how everything has taken a toll on their friendship, but then she realized she wrote a bunch of crap about Hermione’s protective charms all around their camp areas. Anyhow, I felt like she took a look at her bank account, saw all the extra 0’s realized it was the last book and said SCREW IT! and wrote that garbage about the whole de-illuminator and Ron’s heart. Bah! Rage every time I read that passage.
Despite my small gripes with the series, it’s still awesome and I still grew up reading this stuff. I think I’ll go and re-read Snape’s Last Memory now. Happy Holidays!
