Hey all ~ So sorry to be here two hours late. We got home just after three A.M. and I was ready to get online and chat, but our cable connection wasn’t working because Comcast was doing maintenance just in the area of my small town, tonight of all nights! So I tried to make good use of the time and spent about an hour typing up my first impressions.

What can I say about the movie? I was blown away by it.

We had four tickets and my oldest son wasn’t originally planning to go with us. So I thought my husband was going and then I could tell you his perspective as someone not that familiar with the books. That will have to wait for another time because my son changed his mind, and my husband ended up staying home. We should have bought five tickets to begin with, but then we would have had to take two cars, so anyway ~ I went with my three kids.




We went to a huge movieplex called The Rave and you can see how big it is. We had to park a quarter of a mile away because the parking lot was spilling over. They had five large theaters showing the movie and the lobby was completely packed with people. My daughter and younger son went in to get seats, and my older son and I stood in line for about 20 minutes to get popcorn and cokes. After a few minutes my daughter texted us that the only seats left were way down front but by then I was just happy to have seats at all. For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, I would not recommend sitting so close because some of the action shots made me dizzy. However, it was great being up so close to Dumbledore and Snape! 

We didn’t dress up in costumes, which is just as well because sadly there weren’t that many people there in costumes. However, there were enough to make it interesting. I saw one boy who had on a Gryffindor-colored bathrobe, but he was wearing a batman mask, so he looked like a strange Death Eater. Then I saw quite a few Slytherin types in black robes with green neckties or socks. Lots of kids were wearing pajamas. Since my son didn’t want me to dress up, my alternate plan was just to wear all black and white. I had a black and white shirt black pants, and my daughter wore all black.

Usually my kids are very critical of the movies, so I expected a lot of nitpicking in the car on the way home. But it didn’t happen! All three of them said it was the best movie of the series. My daughter just read HBP again and she said it was the first time that the movie left her as satisfied as the book, which is high praise indeed. 

And here are my thoughts mingled with some of their perceptions:

( Major Spoilers Ahead!!!!!!!!!! )

There's a new HBP Game Trailer. I usually don't get so excited about these, but it has a sequence of Snape and the Unbreakable Vow that is pretty cool. We can see how it is going to look in the movie with the real actors. I never imagined Snape and Narcissa with their eyes closed - that seems a bit strange to me.



Many more screencaps HERE thanks to EmmaRiddle on Snitchseeker.

( See Unbreakable Vow Screencaps Under the Cut ) 

This video was just released today! It's alot better than the lame video they showed during the Oscars. It has scenes with Dumbledore and the Inferi (nice Wizard Wrock name possibility), Draco and Harry during Sectumsempra, Hermione shooting birds at Ron (ha), and Slughorn's house all torn up during his fake death.



And Occlumencia has this beautiful new banner with Snape right in the middle.