Harry Potter!
 

The Order of the Phoenix

I don't really care about the movies a whole lot, but I just threw that up there if anyone is interested.

7th book! I'm excited sad and nervous.Obviously I'm excited because I get to find out what happens. I'm sad because it is all going to end. I've been reading these books since 3rd grade, that's 7 years! I don't want it to end! And I'm nervous because I want it to end perfectly, or JK Rowling might decide to drag it out to a bunch of books and fuck us over, or something else might go wrong.

Let's start with a question:

Is Severus Snape good or evil?

(I'm off to start reading Half-Blood Prince again)

I want to read HBP again as soon as I get home (I wasn't allowed to take the book with me to college because my brothers read the books also).

Anyway, Snape is totally a good guy. That whole mess at the end of HBP, well I am going with the theory that Snape and Dumbledore were communicating wordlessly (using Legilimency I am guessing), and Dumbledore ordered Snape to kill him before Draco could have the chance to. And since Snape entered into that bond to protect Draco, he didn't have much of a choice.

Do you think Harry's scar is a Horcrux? I really hope it isn't, just because I want to be surprised with something else.

And even though I am excited about Book 7, I honestly do not want it to come out anytime soon, hahaha. Part of me wishes they had waited until after the books were finished before making the movies, but then again, I like the cast too much, and that probably wouldn't have worked out had they waited any longer. I mean, that Daniel Radcliffe is a fox. And Alan Rickman, well there are no words for that man, so I will just direct you to this web site which is the funniest web site ever:

http://alanrickmangallery.com/?cr=1&rfm=y

I don't think the scar or Harry is a horcrux. You have to kill someone to make a horcrux, right? Voldemort tried to kill Harry, thus Harry is not a horcrux.

As for Snape. I don't know if they were communicating then and there, or weather it had been planned. I remember Hagrid and Dumbledore arguing about something (?) possibly about allowing Snape to kill Dumbledore. It might have been both. Dumbledore planned it, but didn't tell Snape, so he had to tell him then. Either way, I think Snape is good.

I have no fucking clue as to what you guys are talking about.

What a nerd!

Hey you chhanged that.

Yeah. First I put dork. But I decided I didn't like it, and went to loser. But it didn't have the same ironic feel to dork because I don't consider myself a loser, not in the same way that I consider myself a dork or nerd. So I changed it to nerd.

Narf!

Indeed

You've probably already seen this trailer, but it's good to watch it multiple times.

http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmo...teaser_500.mov

I've never read any of them, (or seen any of the movies all the way through), but I have it on good word from good people (other than luxinterior...Hip Priest is a fan too?) that the books are rather enjoyable.

I was a bit surprised to read recently that one of the Harry Potter books ended up in Syd Barrett's small library. It was being auctioned the other day.

I should read the books.

I know that a lot of people have seen the movies and then wonder what all the hype is about, but the movies have consistently left out the most interesting and intricate parts of the plot, the parts that are basically the reason why the books aren't just read by children. There's really no reason not to give them a try, since the first book can easily be read in a day. If it even holds your attention in the slightest, it will only get better from that point on.

I think it would be interesting to see what an adult would think of it. It makes me wonder what I would think of Harry Potter now, if I didn't read them at such a young age. I'm excited, even though the movies aren't any good, in my opinion. I'm excited to see Dumbledore's Army, Umbridge, and Fred and George's big exit from Hogwarts.

The movies leave out a lot of detail, which is understandable. But, if I recall correctly, they left out the part where Harry gives the Weasly twins all the Triwizard money, which is important, if the movies show anything about the joke shop that they open.

Exactly.

I wish S.P.E.W. had been in Goblet of Fire.

(Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare)

I usually hold books in high regard than movies, because movies leave out a big chunk of the plot.

Well I am off.

I thought the third movie was beautiful, but then again it had the benefit of a good director. The plot wasn't rushed, it wasn't flashy or tacky, it didn't try so hard to impress with CGI or any of that shit. It was just more subdued in all the right places. The edits were more controlled as opposed to getting out of hand, like they have in all the other movies. The problem with the 3rd movie though is that there was never any connection made between the Marauder's Map and its creators (in reality, not just their nicknames). I am trying not to speak too openly about the books in this thread anymore, just in case someone becomes interested, and I wouldn't want to spoil anything for them. Anyway, I just thought that making that connection would have given the movie a little more weight. Other parts were left out, like Sirius's break-in to the castle, and how he escaped from Azkaban in the first place. On the DVD there is a deleted scene pertaining to the former. But, every one of the movies has left out just as much, if not more, and that movie was so well-done otherwise that it deserves a break. I mean, the entire Time Turner sequence was astounding. Seeing that onscreen was pretty intense, I gotta say.

Yeah. The 3rd movie is definitely the best of the four (I've only seen GoF once, though, so I guess I can't speak for that one). In addition to a good director, I think it had an amazing story. Better than the first two. The time-turning scene is awesome.

did alfons direct the third?