Grumpy!Neil/Q. about the movie

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> Question:  To those of you planning to see the HP movie.  Would you 
> rather go:
> 
> (a) alone, because you want to annotate a copy of the film script 
you 
> bought on e-Bay for 378 dollars?;
> 
> (b) with other HP fans, because you can share the experience and 
show 
> off your humungous knowledge to the appreciative people sitting in 
> the seats around you?;
> 
> (c) with friends or relatives who will have to be bribed with a 
large 
> pizza and several pints and dragged into the cinema by their hair?
> 
> Neil    
> Flagging Ford Anglia

Poor Neil!  I hope your week gets better (what's left of it).  
Console yourself with the fact that you are not, like me, preparing 
for the imminent arrival of Mother-in-law from hell.  She's not that 
bad, but she's arriving tomorrow, and if she tries to rearrange my 
kitchen cupboards one more time....OK deep breath...

As to your question, probably all of the above.  My step-daughter and 
her children are avid fans, and can't wait, and I am under strict 
instructions to do anything in my power to get them tickets as soon 
as possible.  My dear husband is currently ploughing his way through 
PS.  (He came up behind me the other day and went "Got your conk!".  
His daughter wasn't surprised that the character he seems to relate 
to is Peeves!) and he has said that even if he doesn't get through 
the other books he wants to see the film because he can tell from the 
way the book is written and because of JKR's wonderful descriptions 
that it will translate very well to film.  So that's family.

I can tell you now that I will want to see it on my own as well, 
because if it is good I will want to see it more than once, and will 
probably go whenever I feel like it.

Fans:  Are we going to have an UK/HP fans cinema trip?  But I won't 
talk through it, as that really annoys me.

Catherine