Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

Well, at 00:50 I finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. That's only just over 24 hours since I bought it. Knowing that I have spent the day with my family, I don't think that's bad at all.

Now I know what happens and I know why.

All the discussions about whys and if have been answered which leaves me with one major problem....I have absolutely no-one to talk to about the book yet!



I can't even review the book on here for fear of spoiling it for anyone else, something I would hate to do.



I guess that leaves me waiting for everyone else I know to finish it. Maybe I'd better go and read it again...

Just 3 more days...

...until the baby is due. Of course when it arrives is quite another matter!

The house has been transformed and everything is done.

Neither of us can quite believe just how much we've done in the last 4 months, but we're really pleased with the result.

So we're just waiting. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is out tommorrow so that will add a bit if distraction until the time comes, and then it will be all systems go. I'm pleased to say that I feel really ready for the baby to arrive (Hol certainly is!) all we need now is some names...

Harry Potter & the Order of the Pheonix

Well, I've seen it,

and it was ...........Good!

Tackling one of the bigger books, this version takes some of the usual shortcuts we've come to expect from the films, but apart from the first few minutes (up to the arrival at Grimmauld place) the changes and 'fast-forward' moments are actually quite smooth. The acting is good and the casting is superb!

Emmelda Staunton is just the right Dolores Umbridge, the look and demeaner are spot on. I was dissapointed to see little of Natalia Tena as Nymphadora Tonks, as she again has it just right. George Harris as Kingsley Shacklebolt has a peculiar look, but he's really funny.

Unfortunately, Michael Gambon's Dumbledore continues to make me want to shout 'No!, that's so wrong'. In one scene, Dumbledore shouts at most of the school....out of anger. Wrong wrong wrong!!!

I'm pleasd to say that it flows as a film. It's good to look at, the story makes sense. It's funny, scary, dark, light, in fact, for me, it's the best film by a good margin, even though it's not my favourite book.

My one remaining thought is that there are lots of scenes which make sense but are missing little buts. I think the DVD release will be much longer.

So, having enjoyed film 5, it's on to book 7...