Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is released tonight. Any predictions?
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I watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban the other night with some friends, after re-reading the book a few days earlier. I am shocked at how much was changed. The movie was fine. I never really noticed the changes a year earlier in the theatres and thoroughly enjoyed it. Watching it right after reading it, however, the differences stick out. Sometimes they’re petty — Hermione slaps Malfoy in the book, punches in the movie — and sometimes they’re more substantial. JKR tells an elaborate story of how — for a few people — Sirius is finally proved innocent; the movie took too many short cuts.
All of this made me wonder: I know this story already. I know the background to something that happens for only a few seconds or is in the background of the shot. How much sense did the movie make to someone who hadn’t read the book? How much more (if any) would someone get from watching it again after having finally read the book?
Final thought: if they did all this editing for POA, what will they do to GOF or OOTP? There is too much to cut in GOF/OOTP. I suppose we’ll have to wait and see.
My wife asked me to post something consider I’m home alone and she’s still vacationing with her parents at Ocean Isle. I was able to join them for the beginning, but had to return to Richmond. :o/
Anyhow, she figured that I should use my free time to post. However, I have been re-reading Harry Potter and am now — after a little less than a week — into the fifth book. Though, as I noted to Kristen, even if I wanted to post, the internet has been down. So, I spent tonight (its 3am!) figuring out what was wrong, fixed the internet, and so I’m posting.
Its 3am. The internet is fixed. I’m going to bed. I’ll give an update tomorrow, and Kristen should have some great pictures of Kate’s 1st b-day party and her trip to the beach tomorrow. She’s such a cutie. I miss my wife and daughter. :o/
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… is now one!
WATCH over thy child Kathryn, O Lord, as her days increase; bless and guide her wherever she may be, keeping her unspotted from the world. Strengthen her when she stands; comfort her when discouraged or sorrowful; raise her up if she fall; and in her heart may thy peace which passeth understanding abide all the days of her life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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… and the Man who rose!
After listening to the 25 June edition of the White Horse Inn, I’ve been re-reading the HP books looking specifically for Christ. The guest, who is the author of Finding God in Harry Potter (at least, I think that’s the title), claims that in every book there is a figurative death-and-resurrection accompanied by “Christ-symbols”.
I finished re-reading the first last night, and there was. Harry, after defeating Voldemort, is put into a coma and doesn’t come out for three days, as Dumbledore tells Harry.
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I think we’re done. You’ll find a link to the left to our old blogger archives with our SP comments. On the bottom-left hand side there is a box with links to our current WP archives.
The old change I want to make right now is to get the calendar to have a link to the previous and next months.
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