The Harry Potter series

[Leofan26]

Any one remember this series? Books or films? I loved both. Movie six and book six was my least favorite of the bunch, too much romance not enough action. Worst part of the film, they cut out the biggest scenes towards the end, I never understood why they did that. FYI I didn't get the Harry / Ginny pairing, if they wanted Hermonie / Ron pairing to happen fine, they could have paired Harry with Luna instead, on screen I thought they had more chemistry and enjoyed the scenes they had in the books, just never made sense to me.

What did you guy's think of the series?

Gosh I miss it

It's fun to re watch the films at least though

[Candy Kappa]

I love the HP books, the movies could have been (a lot) better, but their okay as an live-action synopsis.

[AT-Man]

The books were the best thing ever. The prophecy was my main gripe in the whole series, but probably could have been worse...

[Cowabunga Carl]

It's going to be fun seeing the new movie series based on one of the school books. You know I really hope Rowling gets a boost from this and decides to write more books.

[pennydreadful]

Overall I like HP but there were a few things that bugged me... like that heteronormative ship-all-the-pairs ending that Rowling cooked up for the last book.

IMO books 4 and 5 were the strongest. Book 6 bothered me in a lot of ways - I think primarily because I would have liked the way Rowling handled the Slytherins and Draco to have been a bit different. I would've liked for some of the Slytherins to have stood against Voldemort in the battle at Hogwarts. I would've liked for Draco to have actively chosen to be different than his parents. I just felt it was a missed opportunity - particularly when Rowling's treatment of Snape shows that she's capable of writing really complex character motivations.

It was a bit disappointing to just have Slytherins=generic bad guys (with the exception of Snape). I think a person can be dark and still not be a total jerk who wants to see people killed... and people can see the error of their ways and learn to overcome their biases. Which I know some characters did (like Ron's bias towards house elves), I just felt like Draco got the short straw. Oh well, I guess that's what fanfics are for!

The movies weren't as great as the books (I feel), but then when you're reading a book, we all get an idea of how things should look based on our own imaginations - it's hard for a movie to meet that a lot of the time.

One thing I will say - the moment where Harry and Hermione were dancing in the seventh movie was a really great addition, even though it wasn't in the books - I thought it was a really great emotive scene.

Most awkward movie moment... the Voldemort hug. To this day, I still don't know what to think of it.

[blindturtle02]

I didn't get to read the books all that much until recently. They are crazy expensive to purchase on audio and they were always checked out of any library I went to. Forget buying them in braille because they cost entirely too much. My fiance has them, so she read all 7 to me last Summer. We usually fly through series together but we went through these even faster. We both like the books better than the movies. She doesn't like watching any of the movies because she says all the changes get on her nerves. I didn't mind them sans Harry receiving his new Nimbus at the end of movie III rather than somewhere in the middle. That felt sort of tagged on. Speaking of the books, glad I'm finally able to read them myself via an online library service called Bard. I'm thinking about rereading them this Summer. Summer feels like the perfect time to read all of these. Might watch the movies as well. And can't wait for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them in movie form. I like HP, but it'll be interesting to meet new characters and hopefully explore more of Rowling's world.

[snake]

I like the books a lot better then the movies for some reason. I once read all 7 within 3 weeks.

[Eiko]

I loved the Harry Potter series my fav was book 3 prisoner of Azkaban. the movies where ok I guess could have been better.

[TheBlueTurtle1]

Love the films and am currently reading through the books. On bbok 4 at the moment and loving them!

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by Leofan26

Any one remember this series?

Harry Potter is the biggest phenomenon in publishing ever. I think it's safe to assume people "remember" the series.

[]And why do I feel like I'm the only one who actually read the books as they were published (well, starting with #4)?

Anyways, I love them. Anytime I decide to reread one I always get sucked into it like I'm reading it for the first time.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by pennydreadful

It was a bit disappointing to just have Slytherins=generic bad guys (with the exception of Snape). I think a person can be dark and still not be a total jerk who wants to see people killed... and people can see the error of their ways and learn to overcome their biases. Which I know some characters did (like Ron's bias towards house elves), I just felt like Draco got the short straw.

I've had similar thoughts as well. I thought it would be cool to have a Slytherin character like that. Maybe even somewhat friendly with Harry and co.

Originally Posted by snake

I like the books a lot better then the movies for some reason.

Who doesn't, right?

[BubblyShell22]

Love HP to death and always will. I thought the books were also better than the movies and thought that the worst movie was Prisoner of Azkaban mainly because they didn't reveal that Lupin, Sirius, Wormtail, and James were the Marauders and founders of The Marauder's Map. That was the biggest let down in that movie for me, so I'll always prefer the books. But I do watch the movies of course because I do enjoy them.

[Redeemer]

wow I very shocked at the negativity towards the movies or disappointment. I have never read any of the books. I personally enjoyed the movies and This The Deathly Hallow Part 1 really made me sad just the storyline in general very depressing

[pennydreadful]

Originally Posted by Redeemer

wow I very shocked at the negativity towards the movies or disappointment. I have never read any of the books. I personally enjoyed the movies and This The Deathly Hallow Part 1 really made me sad just the storyline in general very depressing

Like I said before, I think it's just that the books have a lot more stuff in them, more character development, more info and insight into the wizarding world, more lore and worldbuilding - and everybody has those parts of the books that they love and due to time restrictions, those things don't always make it into the movie.

To be fair, I think it's a rare book-to-movie adaptation that leaves original book fans completely satisfied! We can be a pretty brutal bunch - just ask the Tolkien fans.

[Leofan26]

Originally Posted by Redeemer

wow I very shocked at the negativity towards the movies or disappointment. I have never read any of the books. I personally enjoyed the movies and This The Deathly Hallow Part 1 really made me sad just the storyline in general very depressing

I liked the films, sure I was sad they edit some great scenes from the books and messed up book five pretty bad, ignoring those things they were fun in my opinion.

Only thing I was disappointed with this series was we really never really dove into James character, if any thing Rowling really made him look bad. It really had me question why Lilly would fall for a guy like him, I'm sure he had some good quality's in him but we never saw them. Only thing we saw about him was picking on Snape who in the end turned out to be an amazing character.

Oh, like I said the random Harry x Ginny couple, it just never made sense to me. Always seemed like a silly school girl crush. Wasn't Ginny really young? I forget In the films again my opinion, didn't have any chemistry.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

The books were decent.

As for the films - one, two, and maybe three were great. The rest sucked. Especially the last one.

[Peanut]

I perpetually read through the books for years. Only in the last 2 or 3 years have I gotten away from that habit. I absolutely love them. I'm less keen on the movies, but they're pretty fun for what they are.

I wish I was at Hogwarts.

[CyberCubed]

I never got into Harry Potter, mainly because I was already a teenager when the first book came out, and it was out of my target audience.

[Redeemer]

Originally Posted by pennydreadful

Like I said before, I think it's just that the books have a lot more stuff in them, more character development, more info and insight into the wizarding world, more lore and worldbuilding - and everybody has those parts of the books that they love and due to time restrictions, those things don't always make it into the movie.

To be fair, I think it's a rare book-to-movie adaptation that leaves original book fans completely satisfied! We can be a pretty brutal bunch - just ask the Tolkien fans.

Originally Posted by Leofan26

I liked the films, sure I was sad they edit some great scenes from the books and messed up book five pretty bad, ignoring those things they were fun in my opinion.

Only thing I was disappointed with this series was we really never really dove into James character, if any thing Rowling really made him look bad. It really had me question why Lilly would fall for a guy like him, I'm sure he had some good quality's in him but we never saw them. Only thing we saw about him was picking on Snape who in the end turned out to be an amazing character.

Oh, like I said the random Harry x Ginny couple, it just never made sense to me. Always seemed like a silly school girl crush. Wasn't Ginny really young? I forget In the films again my opinion, didn't have any chemistry.

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

The books were decent.

As for the films - one, two, and maybe three were great. The rest sucked. Especially the last one.

Originally Posted by Peanut

I perpetually read through the books for years. Only in the last 2 or 3 years have I gotten away from that habit. I absolutely love them. I'm less keen on the movies, but they're pretty fun for what they are.

I wish I was at Hogwarts.

Damn sounds like I should read the books. Like I said I have only watched the movies, but even just watching the movies I could tell how well written and enthralling the books were. The whole fiction I thought for the most part had a good plot and great fictional characters.

[pennydreadful]

Originally Posted by Leofan26

Only thing I was disappointed with this series was we really never really dove into James character, if any thing Rowling really made him look bad. It really had me question why Lilly would fall for a guy like him, I'm sure he had some good quality's in him but we never saw them. Only thing we saw about him was picking on Snape who in the end turned out to be an amazing character.

Yeah, James always came off as a bit of an asshat to me...

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I never got into Harry Potter, mainly because I was already a teenager when the first book came out, and it was out of my target audience.

I'm pretty sure you're just messing with me there ...IMO, everything from the third book onwards wasn't really a kids book anyway, it got into some pretty dark stuff.

Redeemer, you should definitely pick up the books - I'm sure you'll enjoy them.