Harrymione and Edward Cullen?!

Up until yesterday, I had vowed to stop submitting myself to the ecstasy of acting like I’m some kind of pureblood elite and of casting imaginary spells using improvised wands. I was a dedicated Harry Potter fan when I was still in grade school and I was religious in buying the HP merchandise. I haven’t, however, read The Deathly Hallows installment so you should not expect this to be a review of the recently-released film.

The theatrical poster

My thoughts while sitting in the theater during Thursday’s premiere:

1.  1.  Hell yeah, that poly-Harry scene was epic. Daniel Radcliffe did a freakishly accurate job of portraying the other characters (my favorite was Harry Hermione). I wish someone would drink Polyjuice potion with my  DNA in it too. It would be my first step in world domination. Imagine the chaos…

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     2. I love Ron’s Ministry counterpart! He looks like the Monopoly dude.

“Your wife’s downstairs looking for you.”

 “Oh, no…My wife…She’ll get lost sooner or later!”

 “Ron, you don’t have a wife.”

Oh, joy.

.         3. I say it’s Harrymione for the win. I still go for that pairing despite my three-year absence from HP Fandom. The angst-ridden dance made Harry look like a complete idiot, but when Hermione’s beside him, it’s just heartwarming. (Wasn’t there enough proof of their affair-ish-love-slash-fantasized-romance in the scene where Ron battled the locket Horcrux?)

4.       4. Why do many of the cast look so much like the people at school? It’s disturbingly hilarious. Every time I saw the “doppelgangers” I laughed and nudged my friends, and they’d laugh too. I personally think we were among the noisiest in the theater.

       5. I could have sworn I saw Alex Watson in Fleur and Bill’s wedding. HELL YEAH!

6.       6. The filming sites (Scotland, Wales and the Swinley Forest) are amazingly picturesque. The fields are verdant and the forest is even better than that in Twilight. I’ll add those three to my list of places to go when my mother has enough consciousness of my maturity and ignorance of my awful sense of direction.

7.      7. Don’t you just envy Emma Watson? She’s pretty and brainy, and her wardrobe in the movie, as we assumed, was complimentary (courtesy of no other than Burberry. BURBERRY!).

8.       8. I want to have my bag charmed! If that was possible I could shove myself into it and have my friends bring me to wherever they go on vacation. No one will suspect anything.

9.       9. Daniel Radcliffe is short. (Well, if he’s successful, I feel much more reassured about my future.)

10.   10. During Harry's emo syndrome attack in the forest, my friends and I were half-expecting an old chum to make a comeback… Cedric Diggory! The theory? Cedric “died” in the cemetery but Carlisle found him and turned him into a sparkling (wine. Haha.) vampire! Alas, Cedric Diggory is now Edward Cullen!

Oh. Now I can’t wait for 2011.