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JesusSinfulHands posted:If only the antediluvian wizarding population realized the wonders of I thought the answer was quite clear - wizards are eighty years behind on their technology. TV and Internet just haven't trickled into their world yet.
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quote:Though hotly denied by subsequent generations, there is ample evidence to suggest that the first Lucius Malfoy was an unsuccessful aspirant to the hand of Elizabeth I, and some wizarding historians allege that the Queen's subsequent opposition to marriage was due to a jinx placed upon her by the thwarted Malfoy. Wanna read that fanfic SO BAD  e: That's really what the HP fanfiction community needs: more historical works, less Snape-sex and its ilk. Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Jul 11, 2012 |
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I just friend requested a bunch of people who were listed a few pages back, so if you see a request from RiverWombat96, that's me!
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ShardPhoenix posted:Anyone who's a fan of Harry Potter and just a little bit of a 'sperger (this means you) should read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's arguably better written than the original series and twice as awesome. Had me by the first chapter, will enjoy reading this. On topic, I never read any of the books until this January. I enjoyed the hell out of the movies, thought they were great. Just never got around to reading any of the books. Honestly, wish I hadn't sometimes, she writes angsty emo teenage twats very well.
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AwesomePossum posted:On topic, I never read any of the books until this January. I enjoyed the hell out of the movies, thought they were great. Just never got around to reading any of the books. For me, this is the best way to enjoy works that have been made into movies. I saw the Lord of the Rings movies before I read the books, and the same with Harry Potter. Seeing the movies first means you won't get annoyed or confused by stuff like "Why did they change that?" or "Why did they leave this out?". By reading the books after seeing the movies, you get to enjoy how much more story you find and how richer the fictional world is. The other way around, no matter how good or faithful the movie adaptation is, you'll miss the stuff they have to leave out due to story flow, time constraints etc. I'm actually kinda bummed I've already read "The Hobbit" because of that. Edit : For example, If I had read HP first, I'd be constantly asking myself when watching the movies "OK, but where is Peeves? He was awesome!"
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But when you read the books first you get the freedom to picture everything yourself, instead of what the moviemakers tell you to think. That's my favourite thing about reading. Seeing the movie after the book is still fun, seeing if others had the same view on the book as you. That is not often the case, but then you get to enjoy a new way of looking at it.
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Bad Wolf posted:Edit : For example, If I had read HP first, I'd be constantly asking myself when watching the movies "OK, but where is Peeves? He was awesome!" Not having Peeves in the movies sucked if for no other reason than the Weasley twins leaving Hogwarts was just SO much better in the book (not to sound like that guy cause I love the movies). The part where the Weasley twins go "GIVE HER HELL FOR US PEEVES!" and then he salutes them is so good. Them leaving was just not done as well in the movie. Not having Peeves also meant that great little scene where McGonagall tells Peeves to turn the screw the other way to undo the chandelier (to gently caress with Umbridge) wasn't in the movie either.
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They chose an actor for him and everything, it was going to be Rik Mayall.
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thebardyspoon posted:They chose an actor for him and everything, was going to be Rik Mayall. WOOF - oh that crazy Lord Flashheart
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I also recently read the books and watched the movie for the first time, and I'm wondering if it was ever explained by the movie producers why Hagrid was completely absent from the battle of Hogwarts. Was he just unavailable for shooting that month? It's not like they were squeezed for time, they could have taken out of all the screentime they gave Flitwick.
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Eggnogium posted:I also recently read the books and watched the movie for the first time, and I'm wondering if it was ever explained by the movie producers why Hagrid was completely absent from the battle of Hogwarts. Was he just unavailable for shooting that month? It's not like they were squeezed for time, they could have taken out of all the screentime they gave Flitwick. He was there, with his dog and giant-halfbrother. Later he was held capture by voldemort.
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Blight posted:He was there, with his dog and giant-halfbrother. Later he was held capture by voldemort. In the movie, and I'm not talking about directors cut or anything if that exists, his first appearance is in the forest after his capture, and the only giants we see are on Voldemort's side.
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Blight posted:He was there, with his dog and giant-halfbrother. Later he was held capture by voldemort. I liked that bit in the book, if only because I couldn't help but think of The Simpsons. "Agh, I have to save the wee spiders!" "Agh, save me from the wee spiders!"
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Bad Wolf posted:I liked that bit in the book, if only because I couldn't help but think of The Simpsons. Yeah, me too. I love that Grawp just threw Hagrid through the window.
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My experience with the first three Harry Potter books and movies solidified my attitude toward all film adaptations: If I read or am familiar with the source material and/or have a positive attachment to them, I have no interest in the adaptations. I can catch a few minutes or even most of a film on TV but it's almost background noise that I can turn off at any minute. I have no interest in going to a theater or buying/renting videos. None of it compares to experience of reading.
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How did I watch all of the movies without noticing that Peeves was missing?  What is wrong with me?
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Blight posted:But when you read the books first you get the freedom to picture everything yourself, instead of what the moviemakers tell you to think. That's my favourite thing about reading. Agreed. I like to see how I think of things and then see how the directors think of things. I do love it when our ideas of a story link up. The Harry Potter movies looked almost exactly as I imagined they would.
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TiltedAtWindmills posted:How did I watch all of the movies without noticing that Peeves was missing? Wasn't he in the first two? Pretty sure he was at least in the first.
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TiltedAtWindmills posted:How did I watch all of the movies without noticing that Peeves was missing? Exactly what I was thinking. And I'm usually a nitpicker with book adaptation movies, too!
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GoodApollo posted:Wasn't he in the first two? Pretty sure he was at least in the first. I think I remember him in the first one for sure. I seem to confuse my imagined version with the film version regarding the first two books just because of how long ago they were though.
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GoodApollo posted:Wasn't he in the first two? Pretty sure he was at least in the first. You might be thinking of Nearly Headless Nick, played by John Cleese, who was in the first two movies. I believe that they cast a British comedian to play Peeves and even filmed some scenes with him, but they ended up on the cutting room floor.
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I'm pretty sure that he wasn't in the movies, based on the fact there are many Peeves scenes I am sure I would remember, and I can't remember any of them actually happening in the movies.
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Dopefish Lives! posted:You might be thinking of Nearly Headless Nick, played by John Cleese, who was in the first two movies. I believe that they cast a British comedian to play Peeves and even filmed some scenes with him, but they ended up on the cutting room floor. They cast Rik Mayall as someone in the thread said earlier He talks about it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9pioZ9TQ9E He would have been a pretty good fit.
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MrFlibble posted:They cast Rik Mayall as someone in the thread said earlier Oh, he would have! Welp, at least he still got paid.
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I hope we get to see the scenes they filmed with him one day. They sound amazing. Need more Pottermore content. 
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Autumncomet posted:Need more Pottermore content. I'm kinda okay with throwing dead babies out of the garden mini-game they have going.
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AwesomePossum posted:Had me by the first chapter, will enjoy reading this. I read the first two "chapters" and couldn't continue. Harry is 10 years old and talks like a university professor. No 10 year old would ever talk like this, or think like the writer is having Harry think. Complete trash.
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FateoMcSkippy posted:I read the first two "chapters" and couldn't continue. Harry is 10 years old and talks like a university professor. No 10 year old would ever talk like this, or think like the writer is having Harry think. Complete trash. Sounds like you avoided the theoretical debate about raping luna lovegood. It is very bad.
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Basically, the Methods of Rationality is a wankfest where the main character is a super-intelligent rationalist who literally gets superpowers for being a rational humanist. The author also lets his rather peculiar views sink in and it goes into some weird territory. If you can put forth the enormous effort it takes to suspend your disbelief when reading it, it's actually pretty enjoyable. It does a good job filling in all the big plot holes in the books, and the writing's not bad; you just have to get past Harry being a blatant authorial self-insert.
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Finally remembered that Pottermore was a thing and did my signup stuff. My wand is 14.5""[ ] Acacia and Unicorn Hair, slightly yielding. Sorted into Hufflepuff.Not crazy about my username (StormSilver20676), but whatever
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blastron posted:Basically, the Methods of Rationality is a wankfest where the main character is a super-intelligent rationalist who literally gets superpowers for being a rational humanist. The author also lets his rather peculiar views sink in and it goes into some weird territory. If you can put forth the enormous effort it takes to suspend your disbelief when reading it, it's actually pretty enjoyable. It does a good job filling in all the big plot holes in the books, and the writing's not bad; you just have to get past Harry being a blatant authorial self-insert. Yeah, basically, just pretend wizard school starts at about 15 and you're dealing with an especially bright child genius, then its an acceptable way to kill a few hours at work.
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Paragon8 posted:Sounds like you avoided the theoretical debate about raping luna lovegood. It is very bad. Whaaaaaaaaaaaat. Please tell me you're making that up.
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FateoMcSkippy posted:Whaaaaaaaaaaaat. Please tell me you're making that up. And that's why I don't read much fan fic. But this is a joke...isn't it?
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FateoMcSkippy posted:Whaaaaaaaaaaaat. Please tell me you're making that up. Hahahahaha, nope. quote:Not really thinking about it, Harry popped the top on his next can of Comed-Tea and prepared to drink. "Are you kidding me? That's even worse than Muggle journalism, which I would have thought was physically impossible." Draco snarled. "She has some sort of perverse obsession about the Malfoys, too, and her father is politically opposed to us so he prints every word. As soon as I'm old enough I'm going to rape her." Then Malfoy lays on a huge, multi-paragraph explanation of how to get away with raping an 11-year-old in the wizarding world and managed to throw in a "rationally, murder is worse than rape, so why's everyone make a big deal about rape, hmmmm?  " and Harry quickly changed the subject instead of arguing.Oh, also Harry goes on to say that "There were places in Muggle-land where it was still the same way, countries where that sort of nobility still existed and still thought like that, or even grimmer lands where it wasn't just the nobility. It was like that in every place and time that didn't descend directly from the Enlightenment." So basically that every single non-white society is just a barbarian land of rape and peasants. Namtab was doing a reading of it in the TV Tropes thread before it got gassed, as the author is a troper, the relevant post is http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3470622&pagenumber=249&perpage=40#post404689242 if you want the whole terrible rape discussion. Namtab doesn't cut anything out, it's all there, in the original context so what you're reading is exactly what the author meant. Methods of Rationality is the worst thing and I'd rather read a hundred Harry/Draco slashfics or whatever the gently caress than two chapters of MoR.
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To be fair, that's used as one of the reasons why supergenius authorial stand-in Harry wants to dismantle the structure of the wizarding world and bring it up to modern standards. The author really does have some bizarre ideas about rape, though; one of his other stories that was supposed to be about far-future humans encountering aliens with incomprehensible ideals inexplicably launched into a bizarre tangent about how rape was apparently okay in the far future for reasons that would be incomprehensible to modern humans.
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blastron posted:To be fair, that's used as one of the reasons why supergenius authorial stand-in Harry wants to dismantle the structure of the wizarding world and bring it up to modern standards. The author really does have some bizarre ideas about rape, though; one of his other stories that was supposed to be about far-future humans encountering aliens with incomprehensible ideals inexplicably launched into a bizarre tangent about how rape was apparently okay in the far future for reasons that would be incomprehensible to modern humans. Its a troper of course they have bizzare ideas about rape.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:Hahahahaha, nope. Good loving god. I am legit disgusted. gently caress that fanfic, and anyone who likes it.
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I've heard it only becomes worse from there, something about the author wanting to yell at Dumbledore for believing in the afterlife. Hurry up and finish your new book JKR. 
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FateoMcSkippy posted:Good loving god. I am legit disgusted. gently caress that fanfic, and anyone who likes it. I read the first couple of chapters years ago. Holy poo poo it was awful. I've mentioned this fanfic author before in this thread, but this is probably better written than the actual books. He dealt with some major health issues years ago, but is finally getting around to finishing "Years of Rebellion". "The Last Horcrux" is just as good. http://yourfanfiction.com/viewuser.php?uid=3147
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UndyingShadow posted:Yeah, basically, just pretend wizard school starts at about 15 and you're dealing with an especially bright child genius, then its an acceptable way to kill a few hours at work. More than a few, since HPMOR is longer than the first three Harry Potter books combined. Also much better.
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