I haven't kept up much with the publicity at all, so I wasn't expecting anything. And really, Lily being her perfect self didn't have anything to do with the plot
You're completely right about Lily being superfluous to the plot; I quite agree with you on that.
It's just that ... there was quite a lot of publicity farmed out when the decision was made on the actress to play Lily ... which I guess I (a base male) particularly remember because a doctored photograph of the actress's face superimposed upon a ... significantly curvaceous ... model's body did the rounds shortly after. So I was eager to see the real thing, you see ... :-)
If you wanted Sirius's death to be more meaningful then you're one of the ones the movie folk were thinking of when they changed his death scene.
Another blogger has also reminded me that, since they changed things to have Bellatrix hit Sirius with an *Avada Kevada* there can be no doubt that Sirius is deceased. Not like the months after the book came out and fans were asking again and again 'but is he *really* dead?'.
Still, that AK may be part of the reason why the falling-through-the-veil just didn't work for me. An AK is supposed to be instantaneous - it hits the victim and bang! - it's lights out. Sirius looking regretfully at Harry, then softly floating backwards into the void just seemed wrong, to me. Small thing, though.
Ginny did magic in HBP? Didn't she just flip her hair, cuddle with her pet and play quidditch while Harry non-dealt with the Voldemort issue? ;)
Heh! LOL. Thank gosh for like-minded people who hate Ginny Sue H/Hr folk, they're what makes the fandom fun and bearable!
Yeah, do you remember how Ginny was so awesome and wonderful in fighting all those horrible DEs in the tower at the end of the sixth book?
Ginny was locked in combat with the lumpy Death Eater, Amycus, who was throwing hex after hex at her while she dodged them: Amycus was giggling, enjoying the sport: 'Crucio - Crucio - you can't dance for ever, pretty -'
She would have worn out that nasty Death Eater eventually, with all her masterful dodging, you just bet your boots!
(And that performance was with the benefit of Felix Felicis, too, remember).
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You're completely right about Lily being superfluous to the plot; I quite agree with you on that.
It's just that ... there was quite a lot of publicity farmed out when the decision was made on the actress to play Lily ... which I guess I (a base male) particularly remember because a doctored photograph of the actress's face superimposed upon a ... significantly curvaceous ... model's body did the rounds shortly after. So I was eager to see the real thing, you see ... :-)
If you wanted Sirius's death to be more meaningful then you're one of the ones the movie folk were thinking of when they changed his death scene.
Another blogger has also reminded me that, since they changed things to have Bellatrix hit Sirius with an *Avada Kevada* there can be no doubt that Sirius is deceased. Not like the months after the book came out and fans were asking again and again 'but is he *really* dead?'.
Still, that AK may be part of the reason why the falling-through-the-veil just didn't work for me. An AK is supposed to be instantaneous - it hits the victim and bang! - it's lights out. Sirius looking regretfully at Harry, then softly floating backwards into the void just seemed wrong, to me. Small thing, though.
Ginny did magic in HBP? Didn't she just flip her hair, cuddle with her pet and play quidditch while Harry non-dealt with the Voldemort issue? ;)
Heh! LOL. Thank gosh for like-minded
people who hate Ginny SueH/Hr folk, they're what makes the fandom fun and bearable!Yeah, do you remember how Ginny was so awesome and wonderful in fighting all those horrible DEs in the tower at the end of the sixth book?
Ginny was locked in combat with the lumpy Death Eater, Amycus, who was throwing hex after hex at her while she dodged them: Amycus was giggling, enjoying the sport: 'Crucio - Crucio - you can't dance for ever, pretty -'
She would have worn out that nasty Death Eater eventually, with all her masterful dodging, you just bet your boots!
(And that performance was with the benefit of Felix Felicis, too, remember).
Bleh.