Day 17 - Are you excited about the Deathly Hallows movies or scared they won’t do the book justice?

[ericadawn16]

Day 17 - Are you excited about the Deathly Hallows movies or scared they won’t do the book justice?

BOTH!

I loved being able to see stuff finally but then, they changed a lot and Part 2 is...where everyone else I love dies...

So, I have some of that trepidation I had before At World's End which had a similar death toll of favorite characters but this actually has a much higher body count.

Plus, I understand that while being two or three hours long, there is a very real possibility that some of those characters will get very limited screen time...I'm a bit scared about "A Prince's Tale". They have to get that RIGHT or else Harry's feelings don't change and nothing else can transpire, definitely not "probably the bravest man I ever knew."

At least, I've been spoiled by the epilogue filming, I know all the important players were there.

I'm also sort of dreading Deathly Hallows because it's THE END.

Of all of it, I mean we'll still have new readers and that's wonderful, but it's weird.

When I first read Harry Potter, I was 16 and it wasn't cool for high school juniors to read. No one else in school had read it. I would try to read pages to my two year old nephew or let him look at the pictures, but he wasn't too interested.

Now, I'm 28, graduated college and finally got that nephew, now thirteen, to read all of them himself...and it's crazy popular in a way none of us would have imagined then except for McGonagall.

He'll be famous - a legend - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name!

And not just children, the first time they held midnight parties when Goblet of Fire came out? The news scoffed, like those kids and the weird things they make their parents do.

Now, the current media has often freely admitted to being fans in public, even reading the book on their national show.



We even have a whole Harry Potter theme park section which I suppose might be part of why I haven't gone yet. Once this final film is out, that's one of the final fangirl things to do. It's a lot more attainable than playing Quidditch (although I will one day), visiting Scotland or stalking seeing Jo Rowling in public.

Comments

[maddarilke.livejournal.com]

I could have written this post, E. I feel the exact same way about the last film. Very trepidacious and as if I'm going to cry, simply because it's THE END. I feel anxious--something I never really do about fandom. But this one I've been around since I lived in NYC, and went to see the first film in one of those old-fashioned moviehouses. I get choked up thinking about it.

:) I'm sure we'll have a good time, and have a good cry. xo