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So, the Nazgul and I went to the English language midnight premiere of "Prisoner of Azkaban" here in Munich.

It was a very grown-up audience; we two were the only ones in costume, but as we know that Where We Are Is Up, we didn't mind. My huge witch's hat made quite a splash, and the people in the row behind us sighed audibly with relief when I took it off before the movie began.

Just a few remarks:

The werewolf: Gah!! Euuchhh!! So not it! Whoever designed that creature should be fired summarily and condemned to the hell of doing wire removal for third-rate superhero action movies.

That. Wasn't. Moony.
Am in denial.

The chain of clues for Sirius/Remus: all missing. More than made up for by a) Snape's pointedly nasty "Old married couple" remark, and b) that desperate, passionate blather Sirius spouts at Remus to keep him from changing. The next time I see the movie, I must disregard the action in the foreground of that scene and listen solely to what Sirius says.

They hugged very intensely in the Shrieking Shack, too.

Buckbeak was well done.

While I was cycling home, I noticed a fat orange moon hanging low in the sky. So it was actually werewolf night tonight...

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Ahahahh, well put! I shall try and metaquote you, so's to spread the word of the true wolf, or something!

And yes, Buckbeak was surprisingly well-done, and even sorta solid and gravitatious (?). At least compared to the were-CG.

Know what: I'm such a sad creature, I totally missed out on the full moon yesterday until I saw it. And such a beautiful one it was. Shame. No pack, no howl...

I tend to notice werewolf night. I was in Dublin with my sister once on a night of the full moon, and we talked a lot about Remus Lupin that night (she likes him just as much as I do), and the next morning, when we went to Glasnevin Cemetery, there were huge canine-like pawprints in the thawing hoarforst on some of the slablike gravestones, and we found that very fitting...

Buckbeak was very superior for a CGI. Still, the CGIs in the HP movies were, as a rule, alsways inferior to those WETA did for the LOTR movies. Especially apparent in the first two years when they were running sorta against each other, troll for troll and Dobby to be compared with Gollum.

LOL! I love the graveyard story. I've actually been howling at the moon for years, ever since I was unhappily in love, watched the guy get together with someone else, and found it quite a suitable vent. :-)

Hm, surely got a point about Dobby (tres annoying) and Gollum (interesting if repetetive). Ack, gotta go!

I haven't actually howled at the moon yet. But the Metropolitans' dog howls at passing ambulances. Very impressive.-

I shall try howling at the moon if I am ever really deeply unhappy again. But I rarely am, you know. I leave that to my RPG characters...

Mah aunt is actually quite down on Gollum. Something to do with his CDlike eyes.
Picky picky, animators.

Of course - as a professional, you always find something wrong. But really, pur-leazse, contemplate:

Dobby <-> Gollum

And then honestly say which is superior...

It's a rhethorical question, hmm?

I didn't think Dobby was that bad, actually. But yeah.

Of course, Dobby was quite good, especially compared to the third part's Monsterwolf!Remusthing.

I couldn't help but adapt the term for the thing, by the way; it is so apt...

I wouldn't know [yet]. Some friends of mine are going in a few hours, but sadly I have not been asked, and as such shall not go sticking my nose in like a...a person who sticks their nose in.

Go on your own - you don't have to be with a throng to see a movie. Common misconception. It was good to go with the Nazgul, but that was because of the costumes, because of screeching in unison when Snape said "Old married couple" (and there was a collective little screech in the cinema, I can tell you), and because anything is better anyway if I can comment it to shreds with the Nagzul afterwards.

Well, I do have, y'know, stuff to do. So soonish. I have other friends.

Remus/Sirius is Not For Me. Am weird, I guess.

Well, I don't read Sirius/Remus slash much any more, as it's all been done and re-done and then re-done as well, every new fanfic writer reinventing the wheel. I don't even follow the oeuvres of our esteemed ex-Patrician.

And I've only ever written one little fragment of it, on a long train journey with the Nazgul when we went to Strasbourg to go to an Apocalyptica concert, last summer. I had forgotten my book and had nothing else to do, and OotP was still new and fresh in my head.

But I think they are utterly canon. Well anchored in the text. On purpose. Put there by JKR with intent.

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