Fandom Land
Behind the cut, what happens when I start contemplating the fandom and what a map of this place would look like.
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The sequel to 200 Things We Hate about PS/SS: Special GoF Preview.
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Hey!
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Hi Everybody!!
I just wanted to inform everyone that the Official Mugglenet.com Live Journal Community has been created, and is officially open. It was created to serve as a haven for all Harry Potter fans, and can be accessed by searching the user name muggle_net or by clicking on the link below. Join, and share comments, questions, requests, suggestions, information, news, fan art, fan fiction, your love for the Harry Potter series, both movie and book, and anything else.
http://www.livejournal.com/communi…
I hope to see you there.
I dont know if these type of posts are allowed. If they are not, im sorry. Just tell me and I will delete it.
I just wanted to inform everyone that the Official Mugglenet.com Live Journal Community has been created, and is officially open. It was created to serve as a haven for all Harry Potter fans, and can be accessed by searching the user name muggle_net or by clicking on the link below. Join, and share comments, questions, requests, suggestions, information, news, fan art, fan fiction, your love for the Harry Potter series, both movie and book, and anything else.
http://www.livejournal.com/communi…
I hope to see you there.
I dont know if these type of posts are allowed. If they are not, im sorry. Just tell me and I will delete it.
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Hi Everybody!!
I just wanted to inform everyone that the Official Mugglenet.com Live Journal Community has been created, and is officially open. It was created to serve as a haven for all Harry Potter fans, and can be accessed by searching the user name muggle_net or by clicking on the link below. Join, and share comments, questions, requests, suggestions, information, news, fan art, fan fiction, your love for the Harry Potter series, both movie and book, and anything else.
http://www.livejournal.com/communi…
I hope to see you there.
Muggle_Net Moderator,
Mikee
I just wanted to inform everyone that the Official Mugglenet.com Live Journal Community has been created, and is officially open. It was created to serve as a haven for all Harry Potter fans, and can be accessed by searching the user name muggle_net or by clicking on the link below. Join, and share comments, questions, requests, suggestions, information, news, fan art, fan fiction, your love for the Harry Potter series, both movie and book, and anything else.
http://www.livejournal.com/communi…
I hope to see you there.
Muggle_Net Moderator,
Mikee
Grrr!
I haven't even SEEN the movie Prisoner of Azkaban yet, and now I'm not entirely sure that I want to. I'm that mad.
Since the previous movie, Chamber of Secrets, I noticed a strange tendancy for Ron's lines to be given to Hermione, particularly when they focussed around something OTHER than simple comedy relief. I mean, where would Hermione have read about 'mudbloods'? Oh, the shameful racial prejudice that is the Wizard Society's dirty little secret is all in Hogwarts: A History, is it? Bloody hell no. In the book, only those who grew up in the Wizarding World (The Gryffindor Quidditch team, Ron and Hagrid) knew what it meant when Draco cussed Hermione with that insult. Yet somehow Hermione knows all about it in the COS movie, and while I don't deny that Emma Watson acted the scene well, it denied Rupert Grint the chance to show what Ron could do other than comedy relief. But I was able to brush it off as a kind of "well, we better give her some good lines now, she'll spend a third of the movie Petrified anyway."
However, this is going too damn far. It's blatantly obvious that the scriptwriter, Steve Kloves, prefers Hermione over all the other characters. Remember this part of the book?
"If you want to kill Harry, you'll have to kill us too!" he said fiercely, though the effort of standing upright was draining him of still more color, and he swayed slightly as he spoke.
Something flickered in Black's shadowed eyes.
"Lie down," he said quietly to Ron. "You will damage that leg even more."
"Did you hear me?" Ron said weakly, though he was clinging painfully to Harry to stay upright. "You'll have to kill all three of us!" [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Australian paperback edition, page 249]
Yup. The entire line has been given to Hermione.
This isn't just a minor change this time. This is a major line for Ron in the book series - a defining moment for his character as he shows why he was Sorted into Gryffindor. (For god's sake, he's standing up on a broken leg to protect Harry, here!) But not in the movie. No - Steve Kloves prefers to make Hermione into a thirteen-year-old Wonder Woman who punches Malfoy, wears jeans, gets top marks and has all the dialogue with dramatic impact that he can't actually take from Harry for one reason or another. No wonder most of the fans who only got into it via the movies are Ron-haters - they only see the comic relief boy and not the loyal, strong Ron of the series. Ron hasn't had a single shining moment in the series since the giant chessboard all the way back in the first movie. If Rupert could successfully act a non-comedic scene then, why not now?
Please, if you give a damn about canon and the way the Trio is portrayed, go here and sign the petition. It may not do anything to fix Prisoner of Azkaban, but maybe we'll get a more canon Goblet of Fire. We can hope, anyway.
Since the previous movie, Chamber of Secrets, I noticed a strange tendancy for Ron's lines to be given to Hermione, particularly when they focussed around something OTHER than simple comedy relief. I mean, where would Hermione have read about 'mudbloods'? Oh, the shameful racial prejudice that is the Wizard Society's dirty little secret is all in Hogwarts: A History, is it? Bloody hell no. In the book, only those who grew up in the Wizarding World (The Gryffindor Quidditch team, Ron and Hagrid) knew what it meant when Draco cussed Hermione with that insult. Yet somehow Hermione knows all about it in the COS movie, and while I don't deny that Emma Watson acted the scene well, it denied Rupert Grint the chance to show what Ron could do other than comedy relief. But I was able to brush it off as a kind of "well, we better give her some good lines now, she'll spend a third of the movie Petrified anyway."
However, this is going too damn far. It's blatantly obvious that the scriptwriter, Steve Kloves, prefers Hermione over all the other characters. Remember this part of the book?
"If you want to kill Harry, you'll have to kill us too!" he said fiercely, though the effort of standing upright was draining him of still more color, and he swayed slightly as he spoke.
Something flickered in Black's shadowed eyes.
"Lie down," he said quietly to Ron. "You will damage that leg even more."
"Did you hear me?" Ron said weakly, though he was clinging painfully to Harry to stay upright. "You'll have to kill all three of us!" [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Australian paperback edition, page 249]
Yup. The entire line has been given to Hermione.
This isn't just a minor change this time. This is a major line for Ron in the book series - a defining moment for his character as he shows why he was Sorted into Gryffindor. (For god's sake, he's standing up on a broken leg to protect Harry, here!) But not in the movie. No - Steve Kloves prefers to make Hermione into a thirteen-year-old Wonder Woman who punches Malfoy, wears jeans, gets top marks and has all the dialogue with dramatic impact that he can't actually take from Harry for one reason or another. No wonder most of the fans who only got into it via the movies are Ron-haters - they only see the comic relief boy and not the loyal, strong Ron of the series. Ron hasn't had a single shining moment in the series since the giant chessboard all the way back in the first movie. If Rupert could successfully act a non-comedic scene then, why not now?
Please, if you give a damn about canon and the way the Trio is portrayed, go here and sign the petition. It may not do anything to fix Prisoner of Azkaban, but maybe we'll get a more canon Goblet of Fire. We can hope, anyway.
*hem hem* A rant
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Though I find myself reading fic far less frequently then I have in the past, I have found myself a new pet peeve that is currently driving me batty: owls results in post-OotP fics. Here we go! Woot.
( Harry receiving O in Potions or a majority of O'sCollapse )
( Hermione getting all O'sCollapse )
All of this is IMHO, naturally, but I wish people would take a little more time to think about marks they give to Harry and Co, and to at least try to make them realistic. Is that too much to ask?
my journalThough I find myself reading fic far less frequently then I have in the past, I have found myself a new pet peeve that is currently driving me batty: owls results in post-OotP fics. Here we go! Woot.
( Harry receiving O in Potions or a majority of O'sCollapse )
( Hermione getting all O'sCollapse )
All of this is IMHO, naturally, but I wish people would take a little more time to think about marks they give to Harry and Co, and to at least try to make them realistic. Is that too much to ask?
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My friend has some of the HP4 books with the wand order error in it and wanted to know if they had any value other than just books (Silly girl doesn't recognize HP books for treasures in their own rights). Anyways, does anyone have any info that may help?