I'm ready, baby, and I'm excited. I have my tickets for Wednesday night at the Chinese, and I'm going with Tom and my dad, who's here for the primary objective of seeing Potter with me. (Well, primary object is probably time with us and a change of scene. But that's what inspired the trip.)

Dad and I have been Potter pals for many books now. He'd get the book 3 hours before me and call to taunt me with the first few lines of the first chapter while I yelled at him to stop. It was a happy long-running joke. But he hasn't been able to see a Potter movie in the theater ever (taking care of mom, he wasn't able to be out of the house for long enough to see a movie.) So it's a big deal to both of us that we're able to see it together. And where better than at the effin' Grauman?

I'm not interested in pooh-poohing before I see it. I'm probably going to enjoy it even if you're all pooh-poohing afterward. I've enjoyed every single one so far, and I don't expect this one to be much different. I'm cool if you don't enjoy it. I don't enjoy some movies you like. It's not personal. It's entertainment!

I think a major thing people forget about the books is that they're completely from Harry's perspective. And it seems to me, if Harry doesn't overtly notice something, it doesn't get discussed. She stops talking about Hermione's bushy hair partway through, as she's made it through puberty. I think the book just starts out at her awkward phase and by book 5 she's pretty much through it.

Just as the grown-ups start out as (to an eleven-year-old) black-and-white, good-or-evil, somewhat distant... they eventually are depicted (with the exception of, say, Voldemort and company) as complex people who are human and who make mistakes. They were always complex, Harry just couldn't see him that way.

It's an interesting point, though I was saying that she looked sexy before her unveiling at the ball in Goblet.

I don't wish to muddy up this thread with more debate - hope the Potterites have a blast! :)

Amen, my sister!

L and I want to do Wednesday... when and where are you all going? maybe we can meet up!

I'm debating on seeing the movie before finishing the book. It's a total dilemma, because I don't like doing that. And, I'm only 20% through it (just haven't had time).

Radcliffe was on the CBS morning show today. In response to a question about filiming he replied. "Yeah, there were some difficult scenes, like the one where <** Insert MAJOR Spoiler **>"

Doh!

The host did a double take and then weakly added "Spoiler Alert".....

I assume it was the spoiler that Nephytys and I discussed above?

That would be an accurate assumption.

Skip to the last 50 pages. You won't be missing anything. imho.


(If you don't know what happens, I can't imagine the movie being better than these last 50 pages. So if you are a stictler for reading the whole book, I'd wait on seeing the movie until you've read this awesome section.)