tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845713942442113471.post3543838734089870826..comments2022-11-11T07:08:58.715-05:00Comments on The Screaming Axe: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845713942442113471.post-38300468335232914292010-12-17T19:16:51.896-05:002010-12-17T19:16:51.896-05:00I like your theory about breaking the rules. I rec...I like your theory about breaking the rules. I recall a scene from the first movie. At their first broom-riding class, one of the kids gets hurt, and the teacher takes him away, and warns the other kids that if anyone leaves the ground while she's gone, they'll be expelled. Harry starts flying to chase after Draco, and stops right in front of Professor McGonagall's window. She sees him and drags him inside, and you think he's going to get a huge punishment, but instead he gets an invitation to join the Quidditch team. (Granted, some people might consider that a punishment...)<br /><br />And when they are first introduced to the school, Dumbledore (or one of the professors) warns the kids not to go down the forbidden corridor unless they want to suffer a terrible death - and while that threat is real, when he says that, you just <i>know</i> somebody's going to end up going down that corridor. It's practically an invitation! Drawing boundaries inevitably invites transgression.<br /><br />But jumping back to this movie, and that quote from Hermione I put in my review...I was thinking, the kind of rules Umbridge was setting up were terrible rules. They weren't sensible rules. They were rules that demanded breaking. There's a difference between breaking sensible rules, and breaking ones that are not sensible, and I think that's what a lot of the excitement that Hermione referenced was about. It <i>does</i> feel exhilarating to stand up to a tyrant, and to express your liberty and independent agency by openly disregarding rules that are unjust. Provided you're being smart about it (and the last thing Hermione would do is something stupid).<br /><br />re: Luna. Her hair is just downright awesome. In her last scene of this movie, when she's posting up notices about her lost stuff, and then she goes skipping off to get some pudding - she hops just like the magical rabbit she summons in Harry's class. So cute.<br /><br />(Haha, I had no idea what a "squib" was but I just looked it up - I was wondering just the other day if such a thing was possible, and if it had a special name.)zharthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09995423745639356980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3845713942442113471.post-79623408138356243512010-12-17T18:05:37.133-05:002010-12-17T18:05:37.133-05:00Luna Lovegood is my heart. If fictional characters...Luna Lovegood is my heart. If fictional characters came to life I'm not sure if I'd be racing to her side or to Daria's. I think me and Daria would be good in the longterm but Luna needs somebody to just take her and show her how unfathomably wonderful she is. Funny you should mention having both of them on your arms, as I remember envisioning scenarios of that nature when I was envisioning Harry as a powerful Dark wizard. 'Course my version of "dark" in that scenario was quite good-natured.<br /><br />Dumbledore's Army is also one of my favorite things. Very inspiring, and I love the Dumbledore loyalty. And when he turns it around after they get caught "Dumbledore's Army, not Potter's Army!" it just blows me away. <br /><br />Umbridge is awful. But you know what she makes me think of... Filch, the umm "caretaker" or whatever. He's a vicious bastard. He wanted to WHIP the kids and, like, torture them and stuff. He would have too, if Umbridge hadn't been ousted. I know Dumbledore is a nice guy, and he likes to give downtrodden individuals a chance to redeem themselves (Filch is a squib, after all) but sometimes I question his wisdom letting Filch loose in the schol.<br /><br />'Course I also think it does fit in with his educational plan after all. Sometimes I think that the truly good teachers don't mind if you break the rules, they just want you to know that you're "not supposed to." They want people to be afraid to break the rules so that they won't take it lightly, do it for bad reasons. But if you're willing to break the rules even knowing that the vicious Fillch is trying to catch you, then you must have a damn good reason to do it. And so maybe that's Dumbledore's plan. And after all, Filch IS a squib. So it's not like he can do much damage at all, he has to deffer to the teachers. So he really IS a empty threat, in a sense. <br /><br />I think your sucpicion about Harry seeing Hermione's face is probably spot on. Whenever Harry needs strength that's always what he turns to... her and Ron, that is. When he is summoning a Patronus for example, that's always what he's thinking about. That or Sirius.Tenzin Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05925867097747621833noreply@blogger.com