The Official Harry Potter Thread (For Movie News) New Trailer

The Yule Ball is... very embarrassing.

I still like Goblet of Fire. But that part is indefensible.

 

12. The Hippogriff

As seen in Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban

"Surely one of Harry?s best ever lessons. Hagrid introduces the boy wiz to a Hippogriff (part eagle, part lion, part mare according to our book of beasts). The freaky creature ends up giving Potter a joyous tour of Hogwarts by air. Luckily the school has a lax health and safety policy."

 

Probably the best "John Williams moment" of the last 10 years. One of them, anyway.

 

People said the same thing about Lee Jordan after TPS came out, until Rowling explained that she had told Chris Columbus during casting that Lee Jordan was SUPPOSED to be Black.

 

... and the trailer for Part 2 has finally been released:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Official Trailer

Some nice scenes from the Battle Of Hogwarts there.

 

Apparently Julie Walters does indeed get to deliver that line, which will be worth the price of admission alone.

 

A typical Potter trailer, way too long, gives away too much, and to compound it, they will issue 5 more, so that you can basically compile the film from them.

 

Glad I'm not the only person who doesn't like the trailer. Phenomenally over the top, and I barely paid attention through much of it because there was too much going on.

 

Looks amazing, as expected! Lots of non-book events appear to be happening, such as Harry and Voldie's spill off the tower.

 

I would guess that's a dream sequence; and what's the point, unless the horcruxes are destroyed?

 

Yeah, I wondered what that was supposed to be. Maybe Harry tries to kill Voldemort, but Voldemort turns into giant bat or something?

 

It isn't.

 

Well, then, what earthly sense does it make? You can't kill Voldemort sans destroying the horcruxes.

 

(then this would probably take place after all of his horcruxes are destroyed)

 

So, logically, that scene will be their final confrontation.

 

Wow, apparently you two have not read the books! --Otherwise you would not be offering such facile (and dead wrong!) explanations for this movie-only scene.

One four-word sentence, extremely SPOILER-y, beginning with the word Harry and ending with the word horcrux, would explain all to you and elucidate the dumbness of your pronouncements. But I'm just not gonna be that guy.

 

Wow, that trailer is over the top! As I haven't read beyond the first half of Philosopher's Stone and a few wiki articles, it's informative. Though too overly dramatic for 2 mins of footage to be credible. I though DH I was incredibly dull. Despite knowing what will happen in the end, at least Part 2 looks interesting.

I'll likely even feel bad for both Tom and Severus. Not to mention Remus. I'll be impressed if any of the Golden Trio even make an impact. Never liked the kids.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NYt1qirBWg
New trailer. While for me Harry Potter and my childhood won?t end when the last movie arrives, for others they will at least go with a big bang.

Some thoughts:
-Strong beginning, I like these mashups. Aaand another iconic building down, and this time it?s the Quiddich Field. So there?ll be action there as well. I had this visual of bludgers hitting Death Eaters? smoke thingys.
-Do I sense a little distraction with having Snape?s ?We have kept him alive so he can die at the proper moment? scene like he?s talking to Voldemort?
-Hopefully Minerva is as awesome in the movie as she is in the book. I want to see the desks scene.
-Looks like we?ll finally have a movie with also side characters doing things. If in twenty years or so someone wants to make a new adaptation of the books (how many fans will grow up to be in movie industry?), I hope it?ll be a television series, just so they can show depth of the magical world and side characters
-SNAPE! There will be crying.
-According to my theory, the resurrection stone only shows dead people?s images, or memories that ?stick with us?. Movie seems like it goes with that, but hopefully they leave it as ambiguous as it was in the book.
-Fiendfire looks like I imagined
-I still like that they had Harry call Voldemort ?Tom?. I?m not sure how the ending confrontation will go (looks like it?s been extended very much), but as long as it keeps the spirit of the scene (Harry tells Voldemort his mistakes, gives him one last chance, and Voldemort doesn?t understand these things) I?ll be seriously happy. Unless I cry through the entire movie.
-Lots of scenes I don?t have any idea where they?re from. Which is good, because we?re speaking about a movie. In a book, the greatest moments of the battle was when every character did something awesome and there were things from the entire series. But since they cut so much from the movies, they can just as well go all visual. The places are all familiar, and seeing them blow up is not going to be nice.

 

I'm guessing that he's talking to Dumbledore there.

Trailer itself isn't great, but I like what I'm seeing. If you're finishing a 6, 7 film series, bombast and hugeness is the only way to go, something that eclipses everything seen in the previous films. Looks like they're doing that.

 

I'm almost ashamed to say that I enjoyed the trailer, because it's almost purely fluff, completely over the top.

 

Not really related to the films, but since this is the most current active Potter thread I thought it was appropriate:

JK Rowling Announces 'Pottermore'

Sounds interesting. A type of virtual/online encyclopaedia perhaps?

 

Interesting. It sounds like an interactive, digital book. Whatever it is, knowing JK Rowling, I bet it will be really creative.

 

In preparation for the release of the final film CNN has a special hosted by Larry King:

Larry King Special: Harry Potter - The Final Chapter

 

I'll be seeing the film tomorrow. Looking forward to it.