GoF

[author_by_night]

Anyway.

 

The bloody brilliant:

- The Yule Ball.  Especially loved Hermione's "not as as last resort" line.

- Neville's reaction to the Curse. Poor guy.

- Fred's asking Angelina to the ball. So cute!

- Hermione's "I'm not an owl" line.

 

The "what the heck?":

- Dumbledore and Sirius telling Harry "oh, don't worry." Those are the two last people who'd say that.

- The  gender thing with the schools. It is not genetically possible for Beauxbatons to be  all-girls, or Durmstrang to be all-boys.

- The Beauxbaton girls all blowing kisses with sparkles. Gah. They should be sorted into Sparklypoo.

- The fur coats and walking sticks with the Durmstrang boys. Bulgarian does not mean Ice Age.

Other things:

-  I almost think Kloves has been dabbing into fandom. I'm certain "Pumpkin"  was mentioned rather often,  Hermione's "boys" seemed rather reminiscient of Arabella's line for Hermione ("boys, honestly"), and I swear, he's playing with the shippers.

- Did anyone notice that on three counts - only one of them definitely his call -  Snape did something in the same scene? He gives Crouch veritusaerum, which is fairly expected - but then, he opens the trunk with Moody in it, and then threatens Crouch with a wand. It's odd, because as much as I think Snape is guilty of murder... I dunno.

- That line, with Sirius adding "the bird bites" as a PS? Perfect. It's exactly like Sirius.

- Dumbledore was murdered - or, his character was. Since when does he say things like "eternal glory", and speak words of wisdom by panting them out in a loud voice?

- While I have no real attachment to the character of Amos Diggory, I must say, he looked... dorkier than I'd imagined.

- Was it just me, or was Myrtle's cudding Harry while he was naked a tad disturbing? (Funny, but on the disturbing side).

- Watching  Ralph Fiennes play Voldemort was unnerving, as it's how my friend - linda_lupos - pictures Remus. So, yeah. ;)

Overall grade: B. :) I thought it was great - a bit rushed, but overall good, as long as you don't go looking for too much 99% accuracy.

Feel free to add any thoughts in the comments!

Comments

[ashtur.livejournal.com]

Hm, you're probably right... though I was thinking it was a Durmstrang boy

Oh well... never claimed to be infallible :)