Amanuensis's Journal

I made sure to be in the theatre when my best friend Lacey went to see this. She hasn't read any of the books and at the point when the bushes were closing in on Cedric, she leaned over to me and said, "Don't hurt the pretty one." I almost started crying then, and she did cry quite a bit. The only scene that doesn't come home if you haven't read the books is the part with Neville and Cruciatus. You have to know why that scene is so heart-wrenching for him. When Moody became Barty Jr. she was like "Oh!" I still had to explain a bit of it to her, but she loved it. She still won't, however, read the books. *sigh*

I have noticed a disturbing trend among the HP fans. People either love or hate this movie. My brother (not as much of a fan as I am, of course, but still a huge fan) despised this movie. He thought it was action-packed and emotionally lacking. He hated that they left out so much of the book, but then he loved the PoA interpretation, and I think that they fucked over that book a lot. At least Goblet of Fire made sense to non-book readers.

Moment where I choked up: That's my son! That's my boy! (I thought I was going to lose it right there in the theatre)

And, omg!, Cedric's GAY! Why didn't they tell us this in the book? lol. He was totally just humoring Cho. Totally. I don't think Newell could have put more homosexual undertones in this book, honestly.

Okay, I think this has been a long enough comment now.

~Libby

PS Voldemort/Harry is my new OTP, dammit.