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> Even
> the guy who plays Harry said of the latest film "we tried really
> hard to ensure that the Dementors didn't look too much like
> Ringwraiths".
Ironic, as as soon as I saw them, my mind went 'Ripoff!'
> I think, "Let's go and get him!"
>
> "Okay."
>
> Would have been more pleasing.
>
> In my book, when someone dies, they die - I'm talking spine rippage
> here, make no mistake.
> Oh, how the fans shall weep.
Yep, that was a real cop-out death. He'll probably be rescued by Richard Dean Anderson or someone. A real death is like the one at the end of Batman: No Man's Land where someone got shot in the head - you saw the body, and knew they were dead. In Harry Potter it was like someone falling into the sea and the RNLI just going 'Nah, he's dead. Let's not bother.'
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
>
> And her 'terrible terrible death' was so poor you almost missed it,
> and then didn't even care.
>
> "*gasp* Sirius fell behind that curtain!"
>
> "Let's go and get him"
>
> "Nah he's dead"
>
> "Really?"
>
> "Yeah"
>
>
> I had to read that page three times to actually get my head around
> the fact that that's all that happened.
It was quite shameful.
I think, "Let's go and get him!"
"Okay."
Would have been more pleasing.
In my book, when someone dies, they die - I'm talking spine rippage here, make no mistake.
Oh, how the fans shall weep.
> Aha, I see through your fraud!
>
> Why would a book have closing credits?
>
>
> Close, but no cigar.
Did I say book? I meant book and movie - *fixed* :)
Why would a book have closing credits?
Close, but no cigar.
Harry Potter and The Overing of the Hype - Final Scene:
*Harry, Ron and all their teachers and fellow pupils are gathered in the hall at Hogwarts.*
Harry: 'At last, the evil wizard Voldemorte has been captured. The cost has been high - Hermione has been torn to pieces by a horde of creepy lust-crazed middle-aged men and her remains sold on E-Bay, but this is the end. It all comes down to this. There'll be no more of your heinous deeds from now on. '
Ron: 'Rat's right, Raggy!'
*Harry removes Voldemorts face, revealed to be a rubber mask*
Harry: 'Why, it's Mildred Hubble, star of The Worst Witch books, subsequently a successful TV series'
Mildred Hubble: 'Damn you Harry Potter. Your adventures have been little more than a copy of my own antics with some pap-Lord of the Rings style gloom and doom thrown in.'
Harry: 'And you would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for us meddling kids, eh?'
Mildred: 'Funny you should mention that. Look behind you.'
Harry: 'I'm not falling for that!'
Mildred: 'Suit yourself.'
*there is is a sickening thud as a copy of the hardback edition of 'Goblet of Fire' makes contact with the back of Harry's head, tearing it clean off. The camera pans around to reveal a Miss Hardbroom, Mildred's form tutor holding the now bloodied copy of the book. She drops it to the floor. Ron ponders the situation, and promptly boots Potter's head across the floor and into the fireplace where it burns merrily.
Ron: 'I never liked being a sidekick anyway'
Snape: 'Now maybe things can get back to normal around here.'
Miss Hardbroom: 'Fancy a bunk-up?'
Snape: 'Okay then.'
All: 'Hurrah!'
*cue closing credits*
>
> And her 'terrible terrible death' was so poor you almost missed it,
> and then didn't even care.
"*gasp* Sirius fell behind that curtain!"
"Let's go and get him"
"Nah he's dead"
"Really?"
"Yeah"
I had to read that page three times to actually get my head around the fact that that's all that happened.
I wouldn't be too sorry if they never existed.
Despite my near-hatred, I've read all the books for some reason.
The last one made me cry. Not because of it's strong emotional writing, but it's truly awful writing, confused action, drawn-out chapters of tedium and zero original ideas.
And her 'terrible terrible death' was so poor you almost missed it, and then didn't even care.
She better kill the little shitehawk off, if only to try (and probably fail) to make up for that piece of cockwash she just wrote.
I wouldn't be too sorry if she never existed.