PoA

[yakalskovich]

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...

Comments

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

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

[yakalskovich]

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...

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

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.

[yakalskovich]

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.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

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.

[yakalskovich]

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.