Friday night

[ksmith]

Back home from seeing Deathly Hallows Pt. 1. Not a particularly coherent storyline, but I think the director et al did their best. Things moved along better than they did in the book, and much of the repetition was cut. Events happened that I didn't remember reading, but I honestly don't remember much of that book. Except for the repetition. And the fact that waaay too much happened offstage.

That said, I liked the movie and will buy the DVD when it comes out.

In between a fast food dinner (at Chipotle, which for all their bragging of their fresh ingredients is highly overrated) and DH, friend and I went to TJ Maxx. I hadn't expected to buy anything, but I found a black/brown handbag--I liked mixed black/brown just as I like mixed metal jewelry--some orange-scented soap for the bathroom, a CLEAN Winter perfume/body butter gift set that was about 1/3 the advertised price, and a hanger thingie with rows of tiny pockets for sorting jewelry. Maybe in the spring, I will have time to once and for all sort the earrings I've collected over the years.

Home now. Fresh coffee's been brewed. Pups are sleeping. Errands tomorrow, after which I will hunker down as we will be hit with weather, rain followed by a drop in temps and snow. Several inches possible. Then the cold settles in, with below zero temps possible at night. Winter's arrived, I guess.

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Hate to say it, but Hedwig's death affected me more than most any of the others. She tried to protect her Harry, and wound up betraying him. But she didn't know any better.

Funny. That opening scene at the Malfoy house was, for me, one of the most vivid in both the book and the movie. I thought as I read it that it conveyed better than just about every other scene the ruthlessness and evil of Voldemort and his followers. It was genuinely creepy as well.

[jemck.livejournal.com]

I think all of the deaths got short shrift - and yes, Hedwig's is in many ways, the most tragic of all.

The opening was certainly vivid - and showed what the likes of Alan Rickman and Ralph Fiennes can do with scant minutes of screen time/script - but still, abrupt...

Roll on Part II regardless.