I’m feeling weird. About an hour ago I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book in the Harry Potter series. I’ve been reading since 9 AM, so I feel kind of dizzy. I don’t know how to feel at the moment, I’m not disappointed; it’s just strange that there will be no more Harry Potter. I’ll probably write something more tomorrow. For now, I’m off to bed. :)
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Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I’m a huge fan of the Harry Potter books, but not so much of the movies, not that I think they are horrible, I just don’t think that it’s possible to make a really great Potter movie, so I can’t really blame the crew, or anyone else. The reason I think this is because when making a HP movie you automatically lose all the small things that make the books so brilliant, i.e. the small details, the sub storylines, and the surprising endings, that don’t really work when the movies are only about 2,5 hours long. In my opinion it would’ve been more interesting if they had made the books as high quality mini-series, maybe in a narrative way so you know more about what Harry’s thinking, since that’s how the books are written. Anyway, when I watch the movies I do it with most of this in the back of my mind, so I don’t end up bashing the movies senseless because they suck compared to the books.
I’ve just watched the newest installment, the Order of the Phoenix, and I expected less than the previous movies since the fifth book is my least favorite: it’s very long, and even though there are a lot of interesting parts with Umbridge, she’s not exactly the coolest villain one might imagine. It actually met my expectations, nothing extraordinary, as expected they left a lot of things out, but I was pretty satisfied with it. Especially the fact that they’ve made it a lot darker than the previous ones, it wouldn’t have surprised me if they had made it more children-friendly to make more money. The beginning was very cool, by far the best in all of the movies, very dark and almost scary, and since the same director will be making the Half-Blood Prince I’m calmer about it being dark enough, just like the book.
I’m very close to rating it with a 7 because of the mood-change, but it wasn’t that great, so it’s going to be a 6/10. Now I’ll just wait anxiously for Saturday, where I’ll receive the last book!
New Order of the Phoenix trailer
Although the book isn’t one of the best in the series, I’m looking forward to the movie. Cool trailer, I think I’m gonna go through some of the interesting parts frame by frame, looks like Azkaban in the end! :D
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Waiting anxiously for the Deathly Hallows
Major Spoilers.
I happened to stumble upon the release date for the last Harry Potter book (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), and was chocked to see it's already being released this july, I've never been wanting to read a book more than this one, so I probably just suppressed the fact that the seventh book wasn't coming out anytime soon when I read the Half-Blood Prince the first time, but now it's almost here!
Therefore I've read the Half-Blood Prince (once again) during this Easter, to refresh my memory. I was actually a bit let down by the first two thirds of the book, it's a very good read, but it doesn't seem to have all these small things, that all seem to be solved in the end, well it does have these, but Harry has, more or less, already guessed them all. One major thing I didn't guess when I read the book the first time was the fact that Snape is the Half-Blood Prince, and that still shows what a genious writer Rowling is, considering how many hints you get while reading the book (well, maybe I'm just an idiot, and you all guessed it). Also, I wanted to read more about Harry and Ginny and a lot less about the Hermoine-Ron-Lavender drama, although It'll probably fit nicely when Hermoine and Ron start dating in the final book (because they will, right? ;)).
The ending though, is incredible, no one probably anticipated the death of Dumbledore, and even by the hand of Snape. Also, it seems like Harry has a revelation, he accepts that he has to journey onwards to find the last Horcruxes and that's where the book ends. Now I'm actually looking more forward to Harry's confrontation with Snape than the final one with Voldemort. It's sad to think this extraordinary legend is soon coming to an end though, I heard a fan say he didn't want to read the final chapter of the Half-Blood Prince at its release, because he knew he had to wait for two years until he could read the next book, I truly understand that, and it's gonna be a bit sad when the last line in the seventh book has been read. Can't say I'm not looking forward to the film-version of the sixth book though, that's gonna be great.