Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (again)

I'm listening to the soundtrack currently...it is rather weird to see the words 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' in my iTunes playlist. The score is rather different, but its pretty, and I'm looking forward to the music book, even if I'm not sure how well these themes are going to play on piano. Plus it has a touch more of 'Hedwig's Theme' than Goblet as well, which is great. I'm not sure as to whether it overtakes Azkaban as my favourite though. They are so different, which is fantastic, but Azkaban will always have a soft spot in my heart. After now two different composers (and I expect Nicholas Hooper will be hanging around for Prince as well), I can't help but wonder if it would be kind of weird to go back to John Williams for the seventh (or Chris Columbus, or Alfonso Cuaron, or Mike Newell for that matter). We shall just have to wait and see.

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm seeing the film again tomorrow night. I'm looking forward to seeing how the film plays on a second viewing. While it felt like it ran so fast on the first viewing, a second viewing always feels longer. The 'running fast' thing may be just me by the way - one of the first comments I heard at the end of the screening by someone was "that felt like a real film". Perhaps I'm just so used to the length of the book, I don't know. I was thinking today as well about the fact how everyone talked about splitting Goblet into two, but yet that never came up for Phoenix - it's pretty obvious that there's not enough story for two. I was also thinking about how Phoenix was the first book released after the films, and how Phoenix was the first book release I went to....(I'm getting sentimental again, I know).

There's more stuff I'd like to comment on, but in case some of those who read this happen to check it before seeing the film, I won't mention it yet. But there are some cute little 'fan' moments that made me laugh. I'm also looking forward to the fact some of the people coming have never been to Gold Class before, and I must admit we have never 'done' Gold Class to this scale (we normally order standard movie food, this time we're getting dinner food. But I'm still getting a choc-top - must not break tradition, well that tradition anyway. I did kind of break one by seeing it in Vmax first - was worth it though, if nothing else for the experience).