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Your Most Memorable Potter Experience
Now that the series is coming to an end, we should look back on old memories and happy HP fandom moments and I want you to comment and say what was your favorite!? From visiting a theme park to a midnight premiere to meeting stars to book release parties---what's your most memorable Potter Experience?
1. I consider myself a Potter fan, but I've only been to one midnight premiere and that was for the HBP BOOK. I'm sure when I see DH 1 and 2 at midnight that could possibly become my number one experience, but the HBP opening was for me and amazing experience. I dressed up as Harry Potter (I was quite a young'un then) and I even had a plastic wand and everything. We waited in line for a couple hours, there was music and they were playing movies and everything was decorated. Then everyone was cheering and we got our copy and started reading on the way home. I remember reading the book flap out loud and my family was gasping and laughing. Then I read the book after my older sister, and she said it wasn't the best one but still good. I remember a swooping feeling in my stomach when Dumbledore died and then feeling bittersweet and horrible.
2. When DH came out, I was extremely tired that night and had plans early in the morning, thereby not being able to attend the midnight premiere, plus I don't think my mom would let me (still a young-un.) So me and my other sister were huddled around in her room, extremely tired at midnight and when my older sister returned with our copy of the book we huddled round and laughed and squealed at the chapter titles and then she read the first chapter, and handed it to me to read the first chapter. By this time it was 1:30ish and my mom came in and made us go to bed. Early in the morning I recall waking up and continuing reading, and sneaking a peek at the last couple chapters. I didn't read the epilogue, but I did catch a glimpse of Harry's death scene and King's Cross and I saw the chapter picture for The Flaw in the Plan. I felt so depressed (I had truly thought Harry died by looking at the chapter picture and deducing what I had seen and all) and I felt sick to my stomach. I was almost crying by the time I actually reached that chapter. Turns out he lived after all. I'd never felt more relieved in my life. A crazy experience.
3. My last one is somewhat shorter but last year I went to visit friends in Texas and we went to see HBP in IMAX. Now my IMAX theater here is like a square foot bigger than the normal screens, and just has clearer picture and sound. But we went to see the film in IMAX 3D at a museum in downtown Austin. I don't know if anyone's been there, but it was that absolutely MASSIVE screen that is sheer huge and in 3D the spectacle was amazing. One of the most intense and best cinematic experiences I've seen before. Damn, if Inception had been on that screen I would've paid all the way for a ticket there. But it was extremely fun and high up on my HP-related experiences.
1. I consider myself a Potter fan, but I've only been to one midnight premiere and that was for the HBP BOOK. I'm sure when I see DH 1 and 2 at midnight that could possibly become my number one experience, but the HBP opening was for me and amazing experience. I dressed up as Harry Potter (I was quite a young'un then) and I even had a plastic wand and everything. We waited in line for a couple hours, there was music and they were playing movies and everything was decorated. Then everyone was cheering and we got our copy and started reading on the way home. I remember reading the book flap out loud and my family was gasping and laughing. Then I read the book after my older sister, and she said it wasn't the best one but still good. I remember a swooping feeling in my stomach when Dumbledore died and then feeling bittersweet and horrible.
2. When DH came out, I was extremely tired that night and had plans early in the morning, thereby not being able to attend the midnight premiere, plus I don't think my mom would let me (still a young-un.) So me and my other sister were huddled around in her room, extremely tired at midnight and when my older sister returned with our copy of the book we huddled round and laughed and squealed at the chapter titles and then she read the first chapter, and handed it to me to read the first chapter. By this time it was 1:30ish and my mom came in and made us go to bed. Early in the morning I recall waking up and continuing reading, and sneaking a peek at the last couple chapters. I didn't read the epilogue, but I did catch a glimpse of Harry's death scene and King's Cross and I saw the chapter picture for The Flaw in the Plan. I felt so depressed (I had truly thought Harry died by looking at the chapter picture and deducing what I had seen and all) and I felt sick to my stomach. I was almost crying by the time I actually reached that chapter. Turns out he lived after all. I'd never felt more relieved in my life. A crazy experience.
3. My last one is somewhat shorter but last year I went to visit friends in Texas and we went to see HBP in IMAX. Now my IMAX theater here is like a square foot bigger than the normal screens, and just has clearer picture and sound. But we went to see the film in IMAX 3D at a museum in downtown Austin. I don't know if anyone's been there, but it was that absolutely MASSIVE screen that is sheer huge and in 3D the spectacle was amazing. One of the most intense and best cinematic experiences I've seen before. Damn, if Inception had been on that screen I would've paid all the way for a ticket there. But it was extremely fun and high up on my HP-related experiences.
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2. Timing or pacing issues
3. A subplot which fits into the story
4. Maybe Neville has already killed Nagini by this time
Either way, I don't think Yates would do it to ruin the series. Why the hell would he do that? What GOOD would it do?
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Of course, in the movie it won't work that way, but still...I'm sure they'll have him killed by the snake, guys. Yates wouldn't take this one out on a sour note.
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OOTP: Flaws about the film's feel and major parts from the book, cut. Flaws: we have to cut him some slack, its his first major mainstream film, he can't be AMAZING like, say, Cuaron. Cut Parts: WB made him do this. We learned that he'd shot a 3-hr movie. How cool is that? No other director has made that sort of extended cut before, even if we WON'T get to see it!
HBP: So much better, improvement at such a high rate its almost impossible to believe he was the inexperienced director of OOTP. Some pacing/action flaws but still, most of the things he cut were to avoid repetition and information that could be easily explained without confusion in the next installments.
DH: Looks to be a step up altogether. With two films, we will have an incredible amount of detail, you know how Yates loves detail, think of all the little things he's added into the films from the labels of the WWW boxes to the Hungarian Horntail choco-balls in Diagon Alley. DH will be no exception, he will improve and everything will tie together. This will be an AMAZING finish. Trust me. Now that there's no future installments to explain things, Kloves and Yates will be sure that this is the most intense and it will clear up all confusion. If they change things it'll be for a reason and not to screw up the series. What's done is done.
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