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I had this thought just as I was falling asleep last night, and lo and behold, I managed to type it down on my phone (thank you, AK Notepad). It made for some interesting reading this afternoon when I opened the notepad to write my grocery list, heh…

Ok.

So.

Harry Potter. They use owls to send messages.

The internet. We use Twitter to send messages.

Now, the internet is rarely (never?) mentioned in the Potterverse, but one has to assume that it exists in the Muggle world, at least. BUT. If there was a magical www (wizard world web? wonderful wizardly web? web (of) wizardly wonders?), and they had a Twitter-like service, it would, without a doubt, be called:

HOOTER.

Get it? Because birds tweet, and owls hoot! Oh gosh, late night brain, you did it again.

I just took a quiz about Harry Potter, and got 15/15 correct. The quizmaker named me an expert and “sorted” me into Gryffindor, whereas you’re sorted into Ravenclaw if you get between 9-12 points.

I am so offended right now.

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You didn’t think I was going to not review this, did you? Well. I watched it a while ago, but I had to watch it again to really be able to give an opinion on it, and HERE IT IS.

A lot of people have said that the movie has the feel of an inbetween movie, and I agree. However: I still enjoyed it immensely! They’d stayed pretty true to the book, more so than I had expected, so that was a surprise.

The good

• Apparation
• Slughorn
• Quidditch!
• Cormack McLaggen. How hot was he!? (I looked it up, and he’s only 5 years younger than me, so it’s allowed and all is well.)
• Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes
• High-on-love Ron – best part of the movie
• Lavender Brown
• Rupert Grint’s acting. Best of the three, hands down.
• The bit with the vanishing cabinets was actually pretty good.
• Hermione’s hair in potions class.

The bad

• The intro? I missed Dumbledore vs the Dursleys.
• Bellatrix was a bit over the top crazy at times. Enough with the “I killed Sirius Black” bit now. Please. You’re evil and batshit crazy. WE KNOW.
• The lack of explanation for the horcrux-ring.
• Hermione’s birds not attacking Ron.

The ugly

• Dumbledore/Snape. Too obvious – in the book you really couldn’t tell for sure whether Dumbledore was begging for Snape to kill him or to help him.
• Sectumsempra. It didn’t look half as dramatic as I had imagined it.
• Harry/Ginny. It was just…eh.
• Narcissa Malfoy. I thought she was supposed to be pretty? She rather wasn’t, in my opinion. Sorry, person who played her. You’re probably a lovely lady, but I can’t really accept you as Narcissa.

It’s still a 4 out of 5 stars movie. Because, you know, it’s HARRY POTTER (= auto awesome). So, you know, go see it. You might want to read the book first though, because knowing what isn’t shown in the movie rather helps (although Tor hasn’t read the book, and he had no trouble following the plot).

“In my life I have seen things that are truly horrific. Now I know you will see worse.” -Albus Dumbledore