[HPFGU-Movie] problems with *shipping*, etc.

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/24/2004 6:14:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:

> Aren't the film makers concerned that they would like quite silly
> when making movie # 7 and inexplicably, JKR has written that Ron
> will end with Susan Bones while Harry ends up with no one and
> Hermione is engaged to Draco Malfoy (for example)??  Does anyone
> else think the movie makers are really "jumping the gun" in 
> trying
> to out-guess JKR?
> 
> draco382 (who really does like the movie though...)

Honestly, I don't think it will be a problem.  How many people (raise your hands!) have become life partners with their first crush from school?  Not that many, right?  So Ron and Hermione may be an "item" for a year or two, then maybe it will be Ron and Susan Bones (for instance) and Harry and Hermione, after Harry's gone through Ginny and whoever else interests him.  Maybe they'll get back together with their school friends and become "one big happy Weasley family" (Harry and Ginny, Ron and Hermione) ro maybe not.  We just don't know.  And at this point, it doesn't much matter -- the teen years are a short period of life we pass through rather quickly (although it seems like forever at times).  I have no problem with R&Hermione being interested in each other in this film because Ron is so obviously jealous of her being with Krum in the 4th book -- it's a natural lead-in.  Who knows what will happen in Book 6 and 7?  Can't wait to read them!  That said, I saw the film for the 5th time last night, and must say, that stupid jack in the box really annoys me, AND it ALSO bothers me that Harry is grinning when Lupin leaps in front of him to prevent "Lord Voldemort" from appearing -- when we've already seen the Boggart turn into a Dementor!  I wish the continuity people had been more on the ball with that and the scene by the lake where Sirius opened his eyes and the next shot is obviously still unconscious.  And how that one long Buckbeak feather became a cluster of three short ones tied to the handle -- or were they tied to it to start with and I just missed it??  SO much to see in this movie!!  Anyway, all that said -- the more you watch it, the more you get out of it.  The housekeeping lady's broom sweeping things under the rug was something I caught on teh 4th viewing (up to that point I was concentrating on everything to do with Harry and whatever was closest to him rather than watching the background).  I'd love to see it a bunch more, but do need to get on with life, so I'll make myself hang on until I can see it at an IMAX in mid-July. . .I think I can wait that long to see it again, anyway!

Lynda Sappington
http://www.TheSculptedHorse.com