My Limit-Knowing, Let Me Show You It

[vulgarweed]

I didn't sign up for Yuletide this year. It was a combination of factors: the delayed signup process left a short time to write. And I stalked the requested-fandoms summary and saw that no one had requested the fandoms I really wanted to write and no one had offered the fandoms I really wanted to ask for.

Plus, y'know. NaNoWriMo. And 1992 Drawer Novel From Hell. And GOE. And jobhunting. I'm sad because I really enjoyed the last two years I did it, but sometimes you just gotta sit a dance out.


I DID goof off enough to go see HP & DH with divinetailor and family last night, though.




1. I liked Hedwig's death much better in the film than in the book.

2. Of all the instantly-recognizable voices I expected to hear in a Harry Potter movie, Nick Cave's was not high up on the list. WTF?

3. I'm so in love with the animated sequence used for the Three Brothers story that part of me wishes they'd done the whole damn thing like that. ALL the movies.

4. Anybody see that glimpse of Gellert Grindelwald in the window in the rain and get a flashback to Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Steerpike in Gormenghast?

5. Anybody else think Xenophilus Lovegood was kind of shockingly hot?



Anyway, so...back to work!

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3. I'm so in love with the animated sequence used for the Three Brothers story that part of me wishes they'd done the whole damn thing like that. ALL the movies.

Haven't seen it yet, but animation could have fixed the problem of actors growing up and would have suited a magical world well ...


I couldn't resist signing up for Yuletide after all. One month time and I don't have my assignment yet. What was I thinking!

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I still don't see why some people found it weird that the actors grew up - they grow up in the books, after all, and the changes seemed to map out to that OK. To my eyes they look like 11-year-olds in movie 1, 14-year-olds in movie 4, 16-year-olds in movie 6, etc., just like they're supposed to.


(would have been far weirder if they didn't!)

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11-year olds in movie one, yes, but to me they looked too old by the fourth one ... Not so much the main trio, but some of the others.