I’m back to Starkid, so, I’ve watched “A Very Potter Senior Year and my very first reaction was: “That’s real Luna!” – meaning that it’s an actress who played Luna in the movies. That was cool. The plot is basically (mostly) based on the second book – “The Chamber of Secrets”, just Tom is showing Ginny through the diary… oh, sorry, journal flashbacks, which Dumbledore was showing Harry in the sixth book. We get to know why Tom’s always dancing – Dumbledore taught him. By the way, his dancing philosophy reminded me of something: “When the world sucks, just dance!” = “If your hands are shaking, make them jazz hands!” (From “The Prom”) Harry hearing the Basilisk – “Snake” was very funny! It was probably one of the best jokes, actually. I also liked, how Draco tries to remind Harry that they are friends and started retelling their school years – so, we get to know, that in the third year they actually got to Pigfarts and there were “singing, dancing and clean jokes”. Lockhart was also interesting – in this interpretation, he didn’t steal somebody’s deeds, but he steals muggle books and sells them in the magic world. (Spoilers!) He also made Hermione (who was in love with him and was writing explicit smut fanfiction based on his books) write him about Harry’s adventures, “fixed” it and wrote the original “Harry Potter” books that way. He was going to sell them in the muggle world. Harry, by the way, also had problems with Lockhart, because he was stealing his fame, so Harry tried to become popular again, but the only thing he did for it – broke up with Ginny. When the Chamber was open, he was accused of opening it – Lockhart said, that Potter decided to create a mystery for himself to solve it and restore popularity. By the way, there was an unexpected Death Note reference (that to see Tom, you have to touch the journal) – this stuff is pursuing me. Well, getting back to the plot – when all this Chamber stuff got intense Harry decided to leave, because he was under too much stress and pressure. He went to the Godric’s Hollow, opened the lucky snitch, found the resurrection stone inside it and talked to his parents, to Sirius and Remus. And to Cedric. Oh my god, Cedric Diggory and Lily – officially the weirdest stuff I’ve ever seen in my life. Cedric and Lily are married in heaven. Harry also talked to Severus. Well, of course, then Ron brought him back to school, they fought the Basilisk and won. Everybody’s happy, the only victim in Scarfy (rest in peace), Ron proposes to Hermione and she says yes. The last scene, platform 9¾, Harry sends his son – Albus Scarfy to Hogwarts and that’s okay, but you know whom do we see next. Quirrell and Voldemort together (as at the end of the very first musical) sending their daughter to school. Oh good Lord in Hell, I cried and they did everything to make me – they made the girl call them “daddies”, they made Voldemort give a speech about found family and love and they made Quirrell say “Okay is wonderful!”. I’m super dead.
Death’s got an Invisibility Cloak?“ Harry interrupted again.
"So he can sneak up on people,” said Ron. “Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / J.K. Rowling
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I have always enjoyed the Harry Potter series, but this book is definitely the saddest of them all, but also the most inspiring. Too many of the characters die, including my favourite- Fred Weasley! The film misses out quite a few parts but it also adds in bits that aren’t from the film. 5/5
“Dr. Oliver Malt Doom is my past, present, and future, Harry Potter.”
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They were waiting. Everything was waiting. Hagrid was struggling, and Bellatrix was panting, and Harry thought inexplicably of Ginny, and her blazing look, and the feel of her lips on his—
Todd “Varoom” Miller raised his wand.
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“See, there was this wizard who went… bad. As bad as you could go. Worse. Worse than worse. His name was…”
Hagrid gulped, but no words came out.
“Could you write it down?” Harry suggested.
“Nah—can’t spell it. All right—Mr. Rami Doodle Volt.” Hagrid shuddered. “Don’ make me say it again.”
‘ I can make things move without touching them. I can make animals do what I want them to do, without training them. I can make bad things happen to people who annoy me. I can make them hurt if I want to.’
I don’t think Voldemort ever trusted Snape as much as the fandom seems to think, even after he killed Dumbledore. Bellatrix somehow knew that Snape tried to prevent Voldemort from acquiring the Philosopher’s Stone, which is something nobody else knew. Voldemort didn’t mention that in GoF. The only other people who knew where Quirrell, who was dead, Harry, who she had no contact with, Snape, who wouldn’t tell her, and Voldemort, the only plausible option, who she is very close with and says he tells her everything. It makes sense for Voldemort to share his doubts about Snape with her, which means he himself doubted him even though he might have tried to convince himself otherwise because Snape was just so valuable. He also sent Wormtail to his house, who coincidentally enough tried to spy on Snape. Would Voldemort really send Wormtail to accommodate Snape? It was always obvious to me that he was a spy. In Deathly Hallows, Voldemort stared into Snape’s eyes and seemed satisfied after he gave him the information. Obviously legilimency, and he doesn’t do it when talking to other people. At this point he had killed Dumbledore, which should have been enough to prove his loyalty, yet he chose to use legilimency on him when he gave him information about Harry. There was no trust there, just Voldemort being unwilling to let go of his (possibly) most valuable servant at that time. I think he saw it as a gamble, and when the opportunity came with the Elder Wand he easily got rid of him.
When Tom Riddle said Voldemort was his past, present, and future I said to myself “I get it!” Then when he rearranged the letters of his name to spell “I am Lord Voldemort” I said “Ohhhh, NOW I get it!”
I love Helena Bonham Carter and I love the idea of her playing a book accurate Bellatrix. She was the best actress for the part imo, since she can embody every facet of the multifaceted Bellatrix very well. However, I hate how the films portrayed Bella. They took one facet of hers, then exaggerated it to the maximum, and turned her more into a female Greyback instead of book Bellatrix. Both in appearance and the characterisation. I must say wasting HBC’s potential like that is the biggest missed opportunity and disgrace of the films, followed only by their portrayal of Voldemort. Even movie Ron and Ginny are better written than movie Bellatrix and Voldemort.
From what I’ve seen from the fanfics, fanarts, and fan edits, I feel like a lot of people don’t realize that Voldemort is like +20 years older than Bellatrix, Snape, the Marauders, etc. I’ve seen a lot of fancast where they’re the same age and it bothers me. I know the movies didn’t help since they portrayed that generations as much older with their casting choices but Voldemort was older than McGonagall.
German people, how does the ‘I am Lord Voldemort’ thing works in the German version? Google says Tom Vorlost Riddle makes 'ist Lord Voldemort’ but I don’t get it… The whole sentence… What is it
