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ayascytheI'm just back from the cinema and, I. I'm still not quite "here again" yet and. *takes a breath* I'll try to be as articulate as possible, but just bear with me. This is me and this is Harry Potter and it's the end.
I don't even quite know what to say. It's not that the movie blew me completely away (in that, 7.1 had a deeper impact on me), but it was good, really good. It started out a bit lame, but then got quickly better and once the trio arrived at Hogwarts, I was completely drawn in. I was expecting to be in tears - I had watery eyes quite a few times - or depressed but I wasn't. I saw McGonagall, Neville, Seamus, Molly, the twins, the castle, all the characters having their highest and most tragic moments, as finales tend to draw out of them, and all I could think was: love. I love this, I love this world, I love all of it and I will never stop.
I wanted to cuddle Neville, squeed at McGonagall's "I always wanted to do that spell", was completely moved when they prepared Hogwarts for the fight and it hurt to get it see destroyed and broken. I hate that they didn't give Fred his deathscene and I hate that they didn't give Remus and Tonks room for their own. I thought Snape's deathscene was pretty unemotional (but then, it was supposed to be like that?), but the flashback was wonderfulhurtfuloh (Lou, I think you'll "like" that one!). Harry and Ginny made me roll my eyes, Ron and Hermione made me smile. Funnily enough, I thought the epilogue worked better in the movie than in the book, although it was absolutely loltastic to see all the young actors made up to look 19 years older (didn't work, guys, it really didn't). Maybe because it's such a typical Hollywood-schmoop-scene and you just have to see it in a Hollywood movie to make it believable. It really felt like a circle closing, like a new story that was beginning and, yes, that all was well. *hits herself for that last part*
All in all, it was a great movie - one, that could have been done better, but was well as it was. And hey, it's not the end at all. Not really. :)
I don't even quite know what to say. It's not that the movie blew me completely away (in that, 7.1 had a deeper impact on me), but it was good, really good. It started out a bit lame, but then got quickly better and once the trio arrived at Hogwarts, I was completely drawn in. I was expecting to be in tears - I had watery eyes quite a few times - or depressed but I wasn't. I saw McGonagall, Neville, Seamus, Molly, the twins, the castle, all the characters having their highest and most tragic moments, as finales tend to draw out of them, and all I could think was: love. I love this, I love this world, I love all of it and I will never stop.
I wanted to cuddle Neville, squeed at McGonagall's "I always wanted to do that spell", was completely moved when they prepared Hogwarts for the fight and it hurt to get it see destroyed and broken. I hate that they didn't give Fred his deathscene and I hate that they didn't give Remus and Tonks room for their own. I thought Snape's deathscene was pretty unemotional (but then, it was supposed to be like that?), but the flashback was wonderfulhurtfuloh (Lou, I think you'll "like" that one!). Harry and Ginny made me roll my eyes, Ron and Hermione made me smile. Funnily enough, I thought the epilogue worked better in the movie than in the book, although it was absolutely loltastic to see all the young actors made up to look 19 years older (didn't work, guys, it really didn't). Maybe because it's such a typical Hollywood-schmoop-scene and you just have to see it in a Hollywood movie to make it believable. It really felt like a circle closing, like a new story that was beginning and, yes, that all was well. *hits herself for that last part*
All in all, it was a great movie - one, that could have been done better, but was well as it was. And hey, it's not the end at all. Not really. :)
