Potter Curse?

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Guess what I saw last night!!!!!!!!!!!

That's right my friends, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!

Harry motherfucking Potter.



Um, yes sir, it was GREAT! I laughed, cried, laughed a whole lot more... Fantastic! I won't give much away, don't worry! I didn't leave early enough so I ended up getting the shit seats in the 2nd row. Yeah, my neck was hurting from looking up before the movie even started.

HBP is actually the funniest movie in the series. You wouldn't think it would be, considering all the shit that goes down! But it totally was! A lady in front of me asked, "Is this a comedy?" Sure, why not? Audience reaction added to the hilariousness. "Oh she's so cute!" (At Luna), "Oh my god, she's crazy!" (At Lavender) "Who's that?!" (The little boy behind me everytime someone came on the screen). There's a part where Cormac McLaggen is eyeing Hermione and he puts his finger in his mouth. Most of the audience started cracking up or "ewww"ing, while there was a handful of little kids saying, "What?! What happened?! I don't get it!!"

As usual, I feel like you might not have a clue what was happening in the movie if you didn't have some idea of what happened in the book. Ever since Prisoner of Azkaban, every one has gotten sloppy in making the material make sense to non-book readers. But maybe that's okay, makes it seem like they're making it for the fans. But I even found myself trying to remember what happened in the book. Like, when did Ginny join the quidditch team? Were Harry and Ginny supposed to kiss in this book or the one before it? Was Ron on the Quidditch team last year? I seriously could not remember anything! But I quickly got over it.

There's 3 things that made me hapy about this movie. 1) Casting the Unbreakable Vow looked just how it's described in the book and how I imagined it. 2) Slughorn extracting the intact memory from his noggin looks axactly how it's described in the book. These two made me happy because it is so often that nothing looks how it's supposed to look. (For example, does the book describe the Death Eaters apparition/flying? to leave smoke-like trails?) And 3) Fawkes. I was worried Fawkes was not going to show up! Thank God he was there.

Off screen there's been some insane Potter action which leaves me wondering: Is this going to continue? Could we have a Potter curse in the making? Last May, 18 year old
Rob Knox, who makes a brief appearance as Marcus Belby (I found him absolutely adorable!) was fatally stabbed after alledgedly trying to protect his brother from a knifeman. Yikes! He was one of several stabbed in an odd rise in knife crime in England.

Today, Jamie Waylett, who plays Vincent Crabbe, pled guilty to marijuana charges. Police found 9 bags of pot in his car, along with a knife. At his mother's home, police found 10 marijuana plants. Growing pot carries up a 14 year sentence. Waylett, along with a friend who pled guilty to possession, will be sentence on Tuesday.