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For all those asking about Hufflepuffs, I present to you from the BBC radio show "That Mitchell and Webb Sound": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXF4JuA6tcg
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re: Flying/Apparition. Having just listened to the books against recently, in the 7th book they mention that wizards can't do apparition over incredibly long distances (i.e. Voldemort has to fly from his Horcrux cave for a while before he can apparate to Hogwarts). And in the first book, Hagrid tells Harry that he flew to the island where Harry and the Dursleys were hiding out. So I guess flying isn't that big of deal.
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Sep 29, 2011 23:57
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geeves posted:Harry was tied to Voldemort not only by the horcrux, but also by blood from when Voldemort created a new body at the end of GoF (Dumbledore's brief look of triumph). Because of Lily's sacrifice and Harry's blood running through Voldemort's new body, this gave Harry a magical lifeline of sorts to choose to live. I always thought that when Voldemort "killed" Harry at the end of Hallows, it was just his the part of his own soul he was killing instead. Lily's sacrifice had nothing to do with it that time.
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Jul 29, 2013 23:03
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Strategic Tea posted:The absolute worst example of that was Neville in the last film, when he confronts Voldemort. Oh my god. By this point he's a hero who's spent a year being tortured and fighting a guerilla rebellion inside the school. I didn't get that impression at all from the film.
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Sep 10, 2013 23:28
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Also, except for Mad Eye in book 4, no one at the school was teaching "How to Murder'. I would hope a killing spell would be a lot more difficult to learn than levitating.
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Sep 26, 2013 01:25
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veekie posted:More than that, I think. She knows there's a good chance she isn't coming out of this alive, and would rather that they don't suffer for losing her in that case. Kinda heavy handed(if she'd asked them they'd surely rather remember), but you can see the reasoning. Also, she's seventeen. She may be the brightest kid at Hogwarts, but she's still immature in some manners.
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Dec 12, 2013 23:28
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Sigh I guess I'm the only one who was happy that Harry and Ginny ended up together.
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Feb 4, 2014 00:13
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And if Draco got a "new" wand when he won the Elder Wand from Dumbledore, why wouldn't his other wand "choose" a new owner?
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Nov 9, 2014 16:13
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A. Beaverhausen posted:I was 16 going on 17 when the last book came out...there are 7 year olds who weren't even alive...is this what aging feels like? I saw Back to the Future in theaters. You know, the film from 1985 where Michael J Fox travels back to the distant world of 1955? Next year it will be thirty years from 1985.
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Nov 19, 2014 17:34
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Quidditch was awesome simply for the commentary.
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Jan 15, 2015 23:30
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ashez2ashes posted:I don't think JK Rowling meant for the Dursley abuse to be marginalized or downplayed. I think it seems that way because the story is from Harry's perspective. It's Harry's "normal" and he doesn't realize how hosed up it is. It may have been in the movies, but it might have been the books, where after Ron, Fred, and George rescue Harry and take him back to the Burrow, Mrs Weasley tells Harry that she and Mr Weasley were already planning to come and get him anyway since they hadn't heard from him.
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Jan 17, 2015 15:12
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MrFlibble posted:The movies were going to have Rik Mayall as Peeves and it frustrates me now that we'll never see Maggie Smith telling him that it 'unscrews the other way'. He would have been about as perfect a peeves as you could get. Apparently, he was Peeves, as in they filmed his scenes for the first movie and everything, but ended up cutting them out. They've never released as deleted scenes, either.
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Jan 19, 2015 23:18
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Captain Mog posted:Just an aside: I recently re-watched every single one of the HP films this past weekend with the boyfriend and I have to say this: for years I've been convinced (like most) that Prisoner of Azkhaban was the best film, followed by Order of the Phoenix shortly thereafter. But this time around, my mid-twenties self decided that Half-Blood Prince is the best by far and I can't for the life of me see why anyone would feel differently. I honestly love all of the movies but HBP is really the only one that, in my opinion, transcends itself and becomes an actual great piece of cinema. The way it is shot- in green-gray tones, with much greater intimacy than prior movies, with special attention paid to individual characters- makes it really stand out on from the other entries in terms of its cinematography. It's also absolutely genius in its character study of Draco, Snape and Harry and the one obvious scene near the end of the film still feels like a sucker punch to this day. It's kind of a black sheep in general because it's by far the darkest of all the books/movies (including DH) but I feel like time will vindicate it as the greatest of all of them honestly. HBP is my favorite of the films to. It's really the only one where the kids are just allowed to just be kids, since there's nothing life threatening happening (that they're aware of). POA is actually one of my least favorites, mainly because there seems to be a too much slapstick humor that feels out of place. Plus, a couple of the Hagrid effects are just horrible, and it always jars me out of the film.
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Jan 28, 2015 00:40
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It's also the only one that wasn't adapted by Steve Kloves (who was feeling burned out by Potter at that point and needed a rest).
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Jan 31, 2015 00:39
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Some of my favorite character moments are from OotP. There's one where the kids are coming back from Hogsmeade, and Hermione brings up the way Cho was looking at Harry and just for the briefest moment the camera pauses on Ginny's face who looks heartbroken. And then the scene in the Room of Requirement, where everyone's leaving, and Ginny is one of the last ones out, looking back, leaving Harry and Cho the only ones in the room. And when Ginny successfully does the Reducto curse, the utter look of elation on her face, and Harry responds in kind, is such joy to watch.
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Mar 16, 2015 22:38
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Chamale posted:There's a great moment they came up with in Deathly Hallows Part Two. When Harry seemingly comes back to life after his body is brought back to the castle, there's a shot where almost everyone stands around astonished. Except Molly, who mutters "Fred" and turns back towards the castle. There's a scene in PoA too, when Lupin turns into the wolf, and Snape pushes Harry, Hermione, and Ron behind him.
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