My Fandom Pensieve Part 2

Have you been listening to PotterCast and MuggleCast from the beginning? If so, what are your favorite episodes?

As I said in an earlier post, I don't listen to any podcasts. Well, ok, I listen to one, but it's never really updated. It's also not an HP podcast. I simply don't have the attention span to listen to podcasts. I'm too visual for that. Plus, every time I've tried to listen to one, it seems the hosts go off on random tangents I don't care about or are forced to answer really stupid questions and respond to really stupid theories by listeners. I don't have the patience for that.

Evanna Lynch was cast for “Luna Lovegood” in the OotP film, which was later released in July 2007. Did you like the casting decision Warner Bros. made?

YES! Luna, I feel, was a casting that got us back on track. I felt like Fleur was the start of the decline in caring about how the characters should look and finding actors to fit that. Luna was an excellent way to show us that WB does care about what the characters should be like. Granted, she's not canon perfect since she has platinum hair rather than dirty blonde, I've been able to overlook that after seeing how much she really IS Luna!

Harry Potter fans and Wizrockers pushed a healthy campaign on YouTube. What is your favorite channel, and why?

I was a big fiveawesomegirls fan as well as a Black Sisters fan. There weren't many other wrockers that I watched on youtube, though I have perused Kwikspell's channel a bit too before we saw her in concert a few months ago and after we saw how awesome she was.

Where did you see the fifth Harry Potter film? What did you think of it?

I think OotP was my first midnight movie release. I honestly don't remember a lot about it, but I do remember it being around the time we made the HP door in our dorm when our non-HP roommate who didn't help with said door flaunted an early pass to see the movie in our faces. That was not a smart thing to do. I think things were thrown and curses were hurled (and we're not talking the babbling curse)!

I liked the fifth film. Yes, a lot was taken out, but it was all stuff I felt I could honestly live without, unlike the third. I think this was a good sign that WB was back on track in terms of caring about what the fans wanted and only excluding what they needed, even if they did continue to keep adding stupid stuff to the movies...which still makes no sense to me.

Where were you when you finally got your hands on the final book? What did you do during that night? Did you read the whole book?

I've talked about this as well in this post, so I shan't repeat myself.

Melissa Anelli, head webmistress at the Leaky Cauldron publishes “Harry, A History.” Where were you when you read the book?

I just finished this book, actually. I bought it around the release of the Half Blood Prince film at an HP display at Barnes and Noble, but I didn't get around to reading it until we were on our way to Infinitus. I liked it, but I found it very difficult to follow since it wasn't really in any recognizable order. I found myself having to take notes at times to figure out what points in the fandom we were discussing since she liked to jump from talking about the DH release to that time such-and-such happened before OotP. So, the majority of this book was read on a plane on the way to and from Infinitus since I was trying to finish it before Melissa came to the Cincinnati Library for a signing and wrock concert after we got back from Infinitus. Obviously that didn't happen, and I didn't end up going.

What did you think of part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film? Did you like where they left off?

I did like DH1. It was pretty good, though some of the deaths didn't get the respect they deserved, in my opinion. I liked the end a lot because it leaves so much time to deal with the other stuff in part two (though after watching only two trailers, I'm worried about them adding too much to fill up said time). But it did its job of getting me excited for DH2 (DON'T SPOIL ME!).

We went a midnight release for that one too (as we have for every film since OotP). We weren't on the news that time, like we were for HBP because Brae and I dressed up, but we did get some odd reactions. For example, I was wearing my Slytherin robes. Slytherin, right? They're all green and have a big “S” on the front with the Slytherin crest. I've got a big green tie on too and a green prefect pin, Slytherin quidditch pin, and a “Potter Stinks” pin. It's hard to even think for a moment I'm, say, a Ravenclaw. But what do about four people start shouting the moment I walked into the theatre? “Oh my God, look! It's Luna!” WTH? Is this some alternate universe where Luna is a Slytherin? Anyway, that viewing was cool. Here are some pics.