Potter ponder

July 27, 2009

Potter ponder

After many days of deliberation, we finally managed to find time agreeable to both of us, my mother and I, to go for the latest Happy Potter movie – ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’. Mounted on my two wheeler, we steer our way through the crazy traffic block to reach the theatre gate and find a “Harry Potter – HOUSE FULL” board. Intuition told me that this was worth enquiry. I asked my mother to go in and find out, myself having found no tiny space to park my tiny two wheeler! And of course, the house full board was for the previous show! Thus were secured the much awaited two seats inside the small hall of a theatre where the movie was running.

It was watchable, though, as usual, I followed most of it only because I’d read the book twice at the least with one revision when the movie was released, Yeah, I’m a Potter freak! Much of the details changed for ease of visual presentation, the plot remained essentially the same. I’d definitely have loved to see the part detailed in the book where members of the Order of the Phoenix and the DA fight the Death Eaters at the entrance to the Astronomy tower as Harry lands on top with Dumbledore. The book is exciting with wizarding duels – the fight of the good against the evil. Also missing is the very important fact that there was extra protection in the form of members of the Order at Hogwarts and shield charms and protective spells at The Burrow. This makes it seem an inefficiency of the “good lot” and more importantly the Headmaster of the school who is the greatest wizards of all times, who puts the safety of his students first, to have ignored the security of those affected by the darkness that spreads.

Speaking of The Burrow, Harry’s second favorite place in the world (it is of course the second place where Harry ever felt cared for and at home) JK Rowling talks of it as a piled up mass of a “magically enlarged” house. Molly Weasley makes it the best home on earth! I wonder how they build houses, wizards. If The Burrow is magically enlarged, what was it originally – a normal muggle house built by hand-laying bricks and cement? If it was indeed built by magic, then why is the enlargement bulging out? Couldn’t the Weasleys have perfectly built upper floors? Or is it the lesser skill of the Weasleys? And Hogwarts, a castle with innumerable secret passageways and magical rooms – it must have been built by the four great founders of the school. I would really like to know the charms and spells used for it. I could try it out myself, u know. 😉

My Muggle friends will surely be unable to help me. Is there a witch or a wizard out there who happens to be browsing the Muggle Internet? Your identity will be kept confidential – please do respond!

Afterthought: It was also depressing to see Harry standing helpless, watching the happenings as Death Eaters round upon Dumbledore, it’s not like him to wait and watch (even though he was under Dumbledore’s order to fetch Prof. Snape), the real Harry would have attacked that moment! It is acceptable as per the goings on in the book – he was helpless, but the movie could easily have portrayed the same thing! 😦

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