Friday 2 July, 2004
Harry Potter news
Recently seem to have been writing about books quite a lot, and why break the habit. As most Potterites know by now that the J. K. Rowling has published the name of the next Harry Potter book, which is "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince". Apparently the prince in question is neither Harry or Voldemort. I don't much care for the title, but let's leave that aside for a minute. First of all, the fact that Rowling emphasises that Harry is not the HBP is surely significant. I mean it's quite clear that he isn't: otherwise the title would be "Harry Potter and Harry Potter", and secondly his both parents were witches. But underlining this must mean that this is a reference to something completely different - and anyway half blooded witches are of course referenced as mudbloods. No, I'm thinking more in the lines of Hagrid - he has been to see the giants and I'm getting the impression that this is going to be significant. Unless of course that's just far too obvious and it's someone completely different which is always possible.
And while on the subject of Harry Potter, the filming of "Goblet of Fire" is now underway. It's directed by Mike "Four Weddings and a Funeral" Newell, and is going to have start studded cast as always. Especially I'd pick out Brendan "Menelaus" Gleeson as Mad Eye Moody which is a brilliant choice, and the fact that Cho Chang is finally going to make an appearance. Film is due to be released in November 2005.
Posted by kolibri at 2 July 08:42, 2004I noted the same news but didn't think of doing any speculating. I'm glad you're doing some, though ^_^ In my opinion Hagrid's been somewhat mistreated and he'd deserve to have some glory, even if princedom surely isn't all goody. Still, here's hoping your speculations are onto something!
Have to say that the GoF film worries me somewhat since the book is so damn long. They'll have to start adapting more (and I actually think the previous movies could have used some more adapting to be more of movies and less of illustrations).
# 2 - Kolibri (on July 2, 2004 01:31 PM):
Thanks :)
I would think that GoF would be relatively easy to adapt. It's been two years since I read the book (remember picking it up from Heathrow on the day it was published and reading it in one go), but I seem to recall that there is lot of stuff that was nice but isn't going to be that relevant (like exams, and school generally). I hope it's not all about quidditch, but that they play with the racism angle and include Rita Skeeter in it (although her name isn't in the cast list so it's most likely going to be dropped). On the other hand this book is full of plots that are most likely going to be relevant in the whole scheme of things and need to be included (I'm sure Rowling is going to make sure of that). I would hope too that the movie will stand out on it's own and not going to be "Two Towers"-like middle of things movie that doesn't have a proper start or a finish. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's really difficult to adapt.
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