Harry Potter

[lnr]

Well, that was fun :-) Bloody hell it's long though, especially when you have to turn up early to get good seats! Left the house just after 8 got home at more or less midnight. I suspect I'm going to have an impressive bruise on my thigh from walking into one of the stupid cupholder armrests on the way out though, at the moment it's already a distinct *lump* which is mildly disturbing.

Looking forward to a nice relaxed weekend anyway. May have to read lots more Famous Five to fill up the time if I keep running out of news and livejournal and so on though. Seem OK so long as I keep busy at the moment.

This skirt is too short really.

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IIRC, it was almost entirely faithful to the book but left a few things out (well you'd have to really). And I think you're right about Moaning Myrtle - she was played as very OTT, rather than genuinely depressive, and was also far too attractive - she had spots in the book, and picked them. Lockhart was brilliant, as were the mandrakes and Professor Sprout, but they did underplay Hermione's Muggle roots a bit, which I think detracted from the plausibility a bit.

Not, that is, that Chamber of Secrets isn't possibly the most weakly plotted of all the Harry Potter books, seconded closely by Prisoner of Azkaban (Azkaban itself being a severe case of retcon given Hagrid's apparent lack of a strong negative reaction to it in CoS). It relies far too much on whoever's reading it identifying strongly with Harry, I think, and even then is a little on the schoolboy-hero-fantasy side.

*koff* anyway. Enough of my Harry Potter fangirl trivia corner :)