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Ahahaha wow.
It's always so much fun to go back and watch PS/SS - Harry and everybody are all so tiny! Dumbledore is so twinkly! Snape is so DRAMATIC. And oh, my god, the line delivery of all the tiny child actors! It is so ADORABLY BAD. ♥! Neville is still totally my favorite, although tiny!Ron is almost as awesome.
And, of course, all the little things that niggle at me, I can now accept with peace in my heart, because I get to repair them in my massive AU 'verse. (McGonagall "Transfigured" the chessmen to "make them alive"? Really? An acceptable detention is taking students into the forest to go look around for something that's killing unicorns? REALLY?) Even if I never manage to actually finish that darn thing, it will at least have given me that.
I was trying really hard to watch it without getting all meta about it, but, as per usual, that's pretty much impossible for me these days. I very nearly squealed with delight when I saw that there was a black professor sitting next to Dumbledore, even though she's only on-screen for about two seconds, because I'm pretty sure there's no particular mention made in the books of any black professors at Hogwarts, and that presumably means that somebody made a conscious choice to include her as an extra, which is a tiny moment of awesome.
The language and dialect stuff was also not so bad, although it did strike me as a little peculiar that they decided to make Seamus Finnegan visibly stupid in the movie, when he was, IIRC, perfectly competent in the books, and there was already a clumsy kid to be had in Neville. If anything, I would expect them to have been happy to be able to condense all the incompetence into one kid who already had a minor part in a couple of relatively important scenes; it seemed weird to choose to split it up between Neville and the obviously Irish kid. But hey, who knows, maybe it was more to do with filming schedules and availability, or something else behind the scenes, than it was to do with dialect.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun to revisit, and I'm glad we watched it. It makes me all nostalgic - I actually remember being in elementary school, and having a friend tell me that I was like Hermione, and having no idea what she was talking about. And now at least a tenth of my total brainspace is involuntarily devoted to All Things Harry Potter. Not to mention, of course, that I would never have discovered online fandom without Harry Potter: HP is the reason I first ventured into the Pit, which is the place I found my first slash fic (Harry/Ron, and very explicit, since this was before the removal of NC-17 fic from FanFiction.net - I was shocked! Shocked!), and, well. It's been a pretty constant slide into iniquity since. :D
... This is making me start thinking about just what effect fandom has had on my life, but I should save babbling about that for tomorrow, because it ... it is tomorrow, actually, and I need to sleep.
And, of course, all the little things that niggle at me, I can now accept with peace in my heart, because I get to repair them in my massive AU 'verse. (McGonagall "Transfigured" the chessmen to "make them alive"? Really? An acceptable detention is taking students into the forest to go look around for something that's killing unicorns? REALLY?) Even if I never manage to actually finish that darn thing, it will at least have given me that.
I was trying really hard to watch it without getting all meta about it, but, as per usual, that's pretty much impossible for me these days. I very nearly squealed with delight when I saw that there was a black professor sitting next to Dumbledore, even though she's only on-screen for about two seconds, because I'm pretty sure there's no particular mention made in the books of any black professors at Hogwarts, and that presumably means that somebody made a conscious choice to include her as an extra, which is a tiny moment of awesome.
The language and dialect stuff was also not so bad, although it did strike me as a little peculiar that they decided to make Seamus Finnegan visibly stupid in the movie, when he was, IIRC, perfectly competent in the books, and there was already a clumsy kid to be had in Neville. If anything, I would expect them to have been happy to be able to condense all the incompetence into one kid who already had a minor part in a couple of relatively important scenes; it seemed weird to choose to split it up between Neville and the obviously Irish kid. But hey, who knows, maybe it was more to do with filming schedules and availability, or something else behind the scenes, than it was to do with dialect.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun to revisit, and I'm glad we watched it. It makes me all nostalgic - I actually remember being in elementary school, and having a friend tell me that I was like Hermione, and having no idea what she was talking about. And now at least a tenth of my total brainspace is involuntarily devoted to All Things Harry Potter. Not to mention, of course, that I would never have discovered online fandom without Harry Potter: HP is the reason I first ventured into the Pit, which is the place I found my first slash fic (Harry/Ron, and very explicit, since this was before the removal of NC-17 fic from FanFiction.net - I was shocked! Shocked!), and, well. It's been a pretty constant slide into iniquity since. :D
... This is making me start thinking about just what effect fandom has had on my life, but I should save babbling about that for tomorrow, because it ... it is tomorrow, actually, and I need to sleep.