...and acknowledging the Half-Blood Prince (ran out of room in the title).
Well, I'm now approximately 5 chapters into Half-Blood Prince. I finished Goblet Thursday, and in my rush to finish on time, I went straight into Phoenix, which I finished yesterday, which has to be the fastest I've read it since the weekend of its release. This means that I haven't had a chance to post about either until today, and that means I cannot remember anything I was going to say about Goblet. I did think about writing notes as I read it, but in some ways that seems awfully like school, and I didn't want to be doing that while reading it for the final time pre-Deathly Hallows. Maybe one day I'll do it, I don't know. The main reason I was blogging about the books was that I wanted to record my thoughts, but that's kind of been ruined by my forgetting - but then again it must not have been important.
Phoenix I found interesting to read post-film. Not that it pointed out things that the film cut that perhaps should have been in it (it didn't), but it did remind me of scenes that I now remember seeing photos of them filming - like McGonagall in a wheelchair by the lake reading the Daily Prophet announcing the return of Voldemort, and Harry's (or James', for that matter) double skipping stones on a lake. I can't help but wonder how much footage is lying around that they shot that wasn't used. Sure, there's always lots on a film, but they seem to have almost shot the book ending, then changed their minds and used the ending included (which I do like). I was also thinking too about how I think I almost like how Sirius is portrayed in the film better than in the books - I understand why he is like he is in the book (same as I understand why Harry is like he is in both book and film), but when I read the book the first time, I remember not feeling too sad that Sirius was the character who died (not to mention relieved I had finally gotten to that point - the big question for Phoenix was always who was going to die, and before reading I had guessed Hagrid, but at points in the book you think its Ron, Fang, Professor McGonagall or Hermione), partly because I didn't feel as emotionally connected to him, even if he was the last sort of family member for Harry. The film however, while it hinted at how much Sirius hated being locked up, he was still kinder, and you could really see how much he truly cared for Harry, and so I had a much stronger connection to the character.
As I said, I'm a few chapters into Prince, and due to the fact I haven't as yet started packing for the weekend, plus uni Wednesday and Thursday, and Toy Sale Thursday and Friday, I doubt I'm going to have time to post about Prince, and this may well be my last post before the Book (scary, I know!). I just thought I'd mention about how much I like the first chapter - 'The Other Minister'. I really like seeing how the Muggle and Wizarding worlds are linked, and like I discussed with others when we first got the book and saw what the chapter was about, how funny the idea is that people like John Howard, Tony Blair and George Bush would know that the wizarding world existed (though, as the Lexicon points out, none of those were in power at the time of Book 6 - Clinton was the US President at the time, and I think that Blair and Howard would have been just after, I know Blair was PM when Princess Diana died in 1997, anyway). The chapter does a good job as well of showing both sides of the story, the terror that Voldemort inflicts, and the immediate differences between Fudge and Scrimgeor. Its just a pity that the chances of it making the film are so, so small (even if I was directing, I'd cut it and go straight to Spinner's End).
So I'm afraid that's all, folks. In a few days, all will be revealed. As for what's after that, who knows?
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