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I'm digging Tonks's cobalt blue hair, though. It's certainly more funeral appropriate than bubblegum pink.
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I think part of the problem is that they started making the movies long before the series finished, so they had no way of knowing which plot details would be vital later on, and which ones were dispensable. Maybe they'll get it right the second time around when they film the remakes in 20 years.
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In fact, I've been holding out hope that the scene was just moved to the beginning of the next movie (especially because they can't show Ron's brother's wedding, due to the fact that he's never appeared in the movies.) Seeing that the scene was indeed intended for Half Blood Prince just makes it that much more unlikely. *grumble*
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I made the mistake of re-reading HBP before the movie came out and my expectations got shattered into a billion pieces.
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Frankly, that tribute with the wands by the school had the emotional wallop that the funeral could've provided. Also, it would've been harder to show the intimacy of the three characters and their decisions not to return if they had been in a crowd of folks arriving and departing.
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/Cynical
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call me crazy... but hasn't every single book had that theme? im probably just crazy
07/20/09
"Sorry about staying quiet about the holocaust. p.s: Keep forgetting Jesus was a jew"
'Sorry about covering up and enabling all the perverts and molesters we welcomed into our ranks"
"Sorry about all the inquisition and witchhunts"
"Sorry about the oppression of women and their exclusion from any power in our religion's structure"
Oh wait, that last one hasn't come yet. Oh well, they have another millenia to get to that one. It seems low on the list.
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I dont know where the church has not taken an anti-Protestant role, just go to mass as a protestant and listen to the rules for communion
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And Harry becoming "...aware that the world of magic, which he grew up with in the past, is not exempt from malice..."? Really, um, I read the first book a while ago, but didn't he learn pretty early on that magic KILLED HIS PARENTS? I think even an 11-year old can see the malice in that. Thanks for underestimating our children. Again.
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Harry Potter on the other hand has no such references. Having a gay mentor who teaches kids to be special by casting spells and hexes (more direct as to what magic is, referencing the occult and pagan more than Jesus) doesn't quite fit with the God-only perspective.
Narnia will get kids interested in locking themselves in a wardrobe by accident, Harry Potter will get kids looking up spells and drawing symbols on their forehead.
I believe none of that, but it's more coherent with the belief than you make it out to be.
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Oh come now. We don't need to smoosh 'Christian' and 'racist' to make the point about how silly it is not to simply teach your children that Harry Potter is a made up book.
07/21/09
That, and while LotR and Narnia have magic, their mortal humans are at the apex, whereas in Potter, they're bumbling, small-minded buffoons. These sorts of Christians are pretty thin-skinned and like to be reassured that Man is the alpha & omega of all creation (thanks, God!!)
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