No wait I’m not finished yet. Also, I think that Emma Watson (Hermione) and Rupert Grint (Ron) have matured as actors far much more than Daniel Radcliffe (Harry). Also (again), I was quite cut that Draco Malfoy (played by Tom Felton) did not have a bigger role in this movie, he is my favourite character. He was along time before the movies came out and will be for all eternity (unless of course J.K Rowling introduces an even more snide, self-important character. Please don’t ask me why I like him, I honestly don’t know, I just do). Along with Draco I absolutely love the characters of Fred and George Weasley (James and Oliver Phelps, respectively, aren’t too bad either though). My favourite part of the series revolves around them. In book 5, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, I love that part where they create the swamp in the corridor, summon their brooms and tell Peeves to . . . (arghhh I give up I’m typing the section out, it is my favourite after all)

“. . .and Peeves, who was bobbing overhead, gazed down at Fred and George who stood in the middle of the floor with the unmistakeable look of two people who had just been cornered.
‘So!’ said Umbridge triumphantly. Harry realised she was standing just a few stairs below him, once more looking down upon her prey. ‘So – you think it amusing to turn a school corridor into a swamp, do you?
‘Pretty amusing, yeah,’ said Fred, looking up at her without the slightest sign of fear.
Filch elbowed his way closer to Umbridge, almost crying with happiness.
‘I’ve got the form, headmistress,’ he said hoarsely, waving the piece of parchment Harry had just seen him take from her desk. ‘I’ve got the form and I’ve got the whips waiting . . . oh, let me do it now . . . ‘
‘Very good, Argus,’ she said. ‘You two,’ she went on, gazing down at Fred and George, ‘are about to learn what happens to wrong-doers in my school.’
‘You know what?’ said Fred. ‘I don’t think we are.’
He turned to his twin.
‘George,’ said Fred, ‘I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.’
‘Yeah, I’ve been feeling that way myself,’ said George lightly.
‘Time to test our talents in the real world, d’you reckon?’ asked Fred.
‘Definitely,’ said George.
And before Umbridge could say a word, they raised their wands and said together:
‘Accio Brooms!’
Harry heard a loud crash somewhere in the distance. Looking to his left, he ducked just in time. Fred and George’s broomsticks, one still trailing the heavy chain and iron peg with which Umbridge had fastened them to the wall, were hurtling along the corridor and towards their owners; they turned left, streaked down the stairs and stopped sharply infront of the twins, the chain clattering loudly on the flagged stone floor.
‘We wont be seeing out,’ Fred told Professor Umbridge, swinging his leg over his broomstick.
‘Yeah, don’t bother to keep in touch,’ said George, mounting his own.
Fred looked around at the assembled students, at the silent, watchful crowd.
‘If anyone fancies buying a Portable swamp, as demonstrated upstairs, come to number ninety-three, Diagon Alley – Weasleys’ Wizarding Wheezers,’ he said in a loud voice. ‘Our new premises!’
‘Special discounts to Hogwarts students who swear they’re going to use our products to get rid of this old bad,’ added George, pointing at Professor Umbridge.
‘STOP THEM!’ shrieked Umbridge, but it was too late. As the Inquisitorial Squad closed in, Fred and George kicked off from the floor, shooting fifteen feet into the air, the iron peg swinging dangerously below. Fred looked across the hall at the poltergeist bobbing on his level above the crowd.
‘Give her hell from us, Peeves.’
And Peeves, who Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.”
(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Chapter Twenty-Nine – Careers Advice, pgs. 593 – 595)

Ok so it turned out that my all time favourite HP section is longer than I thought, hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I do. I absolutely (and I still can’t spell absolutely even after this umpteenth time that I’ve written it, thanks god for word and spell checkers) love this part. I don’t know why but I feel drawn to it, especially since we have gotten a new Principal this year wish that I could do something like that to him. I also like the bit that talks about them in the chapter after but I wont type that bit out, just know that I like that bit as well.

“. . . within a week, even those who had been eye-witnesses were half-convinced they had seen the twins dive-bomb Umbridge on their brooms and pelt her with dungbombs before zooming out of the doors.”

And

“Harry frequently heard students saying things like, ‘Honestly, some days I just feel like jumping on my broom and leaving this place,’ or else, ‘One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.’”
(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Chapter Thirty – Grawp, pg. 596)

Ok, ok, ok, I’m sorry. No more quotes, or rather large chunks of text, from the Harry Potter books, not for the moment anyway. Anyway, I love the few pages following that section, makes me crack up every time I read it.

Anyway, I’m off to bed to rest my head. It’s late, rather early, enough and I think I just woke Mother up, who is rather pissed of at the moment. It is my dancing concert rehearsal tomorrow (today) afternoon and the idiot of a woman who made one of my costumes totally stuffed it up so Mother has had to unpick (well actually, I’ve been the one doing the unpicking but anyway) and put it all back together again so that it will fit me properly. Mother and I have come to the conclusion that this idiot of a woman, who shall remain nameless, put together half of my costume and half of her daughters costume together instead of putting the correct pieces together. I mean seriously how dumb can out get, idiot. So bed for me it is and turning out all the lights before Mother does wake up and starts to have a sad at me. Night

L

Written on 08 December 2005 at 3:00 am