Waiting for HBP part II: Electric Boogaloo.

[pauraque_bk]

My brother has just come home from his dad's house, grabbed the copy of HBP that is rightfully his (mine hasn't actually arrived yet) and shut himself in his room. I'm not expecting him to come out anytime soon.


So, while we're waiting. Last night I did something else vaguely fannish, namely seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with skywaterblue and keladryb. I was entertained, but left the theater not entirely convinced that this was a movie that needed to be made. Some parts were closer to the book, some parts were significantly reimagined from both the book and the first movie, but others were so similar to the first movie that you wonder why they bothered.

I have to read the book again before I say anything too detailed, but I do have one minor thing I loved, and wondered if anyone else noticed. Violet picks the apple in the "garden", and takes a bite. Charlie wanted it -- was tempted -- but she doesn't give him any. Charlie's not just a really good kid, he's frigging Unfallen!


Oh, all right, a couple more.

I liked the echos of the first two books when we encounter Draco. Harry first sees him in the robe shop, where they first met in Book 1. Then he follows him to Borgin & Burke's, where they first met in Book 2.

atdelphi rightly pointed out that Moody should have been involved in the plot thread of Order members guarding Hogwarts -- should have had Tonks's role. She meant in terms of security, of course, but I could not help thinking how much more I would have enjoyed the book if it had been Moody confessing the agony of Remus refusing to be with him. That would have made up for a lot.

Comments

[biichan.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Me=Very Amused Damn It.

[pauraque]

OMG, the Harry/Slughorn? SO GOOD. You guys (ie, fandom) are already making this book totally worth it.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I'm with you there. I enjoyed it, and enjoyed it on it's own merits, but-- at the end of the night I still wanted to see the 'original'. I mean, it was a tough sell to begin with, because did anyone really need a remake of Willy Wonka? And there was technically nothing wrong with it... but... eh. I find distinct memories of it slipping from my brain faster than anything since Sin City.

[pauraque]

I assumed the reasoning for the remake was at least partly that Roald Dahl was said to have hated the first movie. But if that's true, I don't know that he would have liked this any better.

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

I could not help thinking how much more I would have enjoyed the book if it had been Moody confessing the agony of Remus refusing to be with him.

*rolls. on. floor.*

I would have to second that. :D

[pauraque]

I'm reading you and Magpie talking on your journal, and... mmm. Delicious analysis. I ♥ you two.

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

Come and play some more, then!

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

"I don't know, mate...Moody looks the same to me."

Harry stared at Ron in surprise. Hadn't he noticed that the old Auror's magical eye had been drooping for weeks?

Or...was the truth, Harry wondered, that now that Draco was gone, he was getting just a little obsessed with Alastor?

[pauraque]

"Alastor deserves someone healthy and whole," Lupin lamented without any foreshadowing at all.

"Are yeh mad, boy?" Moody growled. "Have you taken a look at me lately?"

"Oh," Lupin said. "I guess you have a point there. Wanna hold hands at the funeral later?"

"Thought you'd never ask..."

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Hee. *g*

[julia-fractal.livejournal.com]

...Moody confessing the agony of Remus refusing to be with him.

Thanks, that made my night :)

[pauraque]

My pleasure. :D

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

but I could not help thinking how much more I would have enjoyed the book if it had been Moody confessing the agony of Remus refusing to be with him. That would have made up for a lot.

Evil! But SOOO funny!

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

Then he follows him to Borgin & Burke's, where they first met in Book 2.

I guess then they meet on the train, where they first met in Book Three.

Also, Moody/Remus sounds like an Order ship I could get behind.

I want to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, despite loving the original, which I heard the creators of this one slating; simply because of the casting for Mike Teevee and Veruca. Their expressions in the advert crack me up.