What a night

Going to a midnight premiere has always been exciting, but I think it's safe to say I've never seen anything like this - the Harry Potter 7, Part 2 movie premiere. The slogan of the night was "it's all over" and you could really tell that people were upset (here's talking the one who cried from the halfway point and on).

Anyway, no spoilers here, I promise, in case you haven't seen it yet. I do want to talk about the night though because it was pretty interesting. We got to the theater at 10 pm and were stunned to find out that people had been waiting there since 7 pm! Not only that, but I spotted this in the lobby:

Craaaaziness. So, we were there at 10 pm, and about half the seats in our theater were filled. And that was just one of 7 - although ours was on the small side. Then, it was time to wait.

But in that time, we encountered the following: A few sing-a-longs to A Very Potter Musical songs, a rousing performance of "The Mysterious Ticking Noise," an employee who entered with a concession cart and asked "Anything from the trolley, dears?", a legitimate dementor chase, and applause for each person who had dressed up as a certain character. Most of the people in our theater were high school students, which was kind of annoying at times, but it was Harry Potter, so I was pretty excited also. I saw a George Weasley costume (complete with the fork sticking out of his ear from Deathly Hallows Part 1) and Dobby - those were the most unique. A lot of people were just wearing house t-shirts or black robes and house ties. This is what WE wore :)

Marisa also made a Deathly Hallows necklace, and she drew a Dark Mark on her arm. Sean and Ris had scars, while I put the DH symbol on my cheek. I also wore lightning bolt earrings (hard to see here) and my AVPM Snape shirt. Oh, and Sean's shirt - I made! The front has a lightning bolt on it.

Anyway, no spoilers again, but the movie was pretty fantastic. A good portion was true to the book, so that was good - except - well, maybe I'll save that rant for another post. ;) The point is, it was SO worth seeing at 12:01 am.

Oh, and I forgot to mention - as streams of people flooded (haha I just realized what I said) out of the theater at 2:30 am, a line of people had formed in the lobby. I leaned over and asked a girl, in an incredulous fashion, "are you guys here to see the movie?"

Yes. They were. They had a 3 am show! Isn't that nuts? I guess if I hadn't been able to get midnight tickets (a lot of places sold out fast), I would have gone for the next available show too. Those people looked REALLY excited to be there, and they eyed us warily, because I know I looked like a mess, from crying, and so did other people. I can't wait to go see it again with my uncle in 2 weeks!

Harry Potter = awesome. The end of an era. The end of my childhood. But I guess it's time for that, right?

-Jess

The Voldemort Scream

I'm a little peeved right now - I had a whole post written out about this and it's gone. Just gone. I thought it saved a couple of days ago... but apparently not. :(

Anyway, since I'm a Harry Potter fan like many of you reading this, I'm gearing up for the premiere of the last movie. Usually I'm not a fan of spoilers, but when it gets down to a month or less, I'm pretty desperate and I don't even think about it anymore. For example, about three days before Deathly Hallows - the last book for any non-HP fans - came out, Mugglenet.com (my favorite source for HP information and news for about ten years) posted a possible leak of the first page. They warned that it might be real, but I looked at it anyway. When I opened the book three days later, it was the same text. I wasn't upset - if anything, after reading the spoiler, it made me more excited. In fact, after typing this, I'm going to watch new footage that was just released. Can't... wait....

The point is, I've been watching all the trailers that have been released. I only keep up with Mugglecast now when something big is happening - with all the Pottermore anticipation and the constant movie news, I've been listening. They didn't expect a SECOND Deathly Hallows 2 trailer to be released, but it was. So... excited.

The second trailer came out the night of Marisa's eighth grade graduation. I actually forgot about it that day, with everything that was going on. However, when we got home, we were eating cake, and I went on my phone's Facebook for just a minute. I kept seeing everyone posting the new trailer. By the time I got to the fifth person posting it, I got up from the table and put it on the desktop computer. I literally could not wait anymore.

I wasn't sure what to expect, because Warner Brothers has been infamous (according to the HP fandom) for putting out trailers with very few scene revelations. It's kind of infuriating but good, I guess, for the people who don't want to see that stuff until the movie. Well, I want to. This is my favorite book, and I want to see what it looks like, gosh darn it. I won't wait.

It was 2 minutes and 30 seconds of goodness - many, many shots we had never seen before. I hadn't been this excited since the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King trailer was released (which is still an epic trailer) (go ahead, Sean, watch it again, you know it's awesome). That was back when we had dial up and I remember sitting in the dining room waiting for every... single... shot... to... pop... up... it was agony! This was so easy!

Anyway - I was jumping so much I bet Mike was questioning for a moment whether he made the right choice ;) Just kidding, Mike. But I was ecstatic.

The MAIN point of this post is to point out how FUNNY Voldemort's scream is: "YEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

In the first trailer you can hear it a lot, but the second one is longer so there's more of them. Basically, Mugglecast pointed this out and Sean and I have been joking about it all week. Every time there's a scream in the trailer, it's the SAME ONE. And there's a LOT of screams. I haven't counted because I just keep laughing.

You have to watch the trailer now (below) if:

a) you haven't seen it yet and you are okay with seeing scenes in the movie

b) you are Marisa and you've finished the seventh book (as of 12:13 am on Saturday, June 25, this is not a fact)

c) you have seen it yet but you want to laugh/count the screams

They are especially in the last half to the end. Enjoy ;)

-Jess