The Regal Evergreen 13 theater in Hillsboro gives a slightly abandoned air - with fused-out neon lights and a solemn parking lot, but all the same it is a respectable theater, with iconic movie illustrations on the lobby wall, and several showtimes for movies, which made it easy for us to select a 4:30 showtime for tomorrow's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix show, the film adaption of the fifth book in the series. I tend to loathe the Harry Potter movies, because they reduce the character-and-plot driven books I love into a two-hour special effects "dragons and hocus-pocus spells" bonanza with the plot reduced to the lowest common denominator. I suppose they want to appeal to the average Hollywood-film goer. What I particularly despise is the "hype" surrounded it, it makes the books and movies less pleasurable. Despite all this, I end up seeing the movies anyway, just out of curiosity as to how they adapt the book. Sometimes it messes with the ideas in my mind's eye, which is why I don't view each film more than a couple of times total.
But who the heck cares about the movies anyway? The real excitement is July 21st (the release date of Deathly Hallows, 7th and final book in the series) the day a huuuge chapter in my life (six years of being a hardcore fan!) comes to a dead-end. It hasn't even soothed to an end in my mind, as I haven't reread the series in ages and am just beginning to do that now (by the way, Ramandeep, I accidentally packed your HP and the SS/PS book, I'll mail it to you soon!). I'm afraid I won't finish in time, or that I'm not mentally prepared for it. I'm deathly (haha no pun intended) scared my favorite character Snape turns out to be an evil git after all, not the slightly-sadistic-troubled-yet-essentially-redeemable-and-good git
he is in my mind. Oh well. I'll stop talking about it and will savour in the series one last time.
But I am slightly grumpy, as I had a cavity filled, so the dentist numbed the left side of my mouth, especially my cheek. It hasn't worn off so when I smile I look deformed. And it hurts.
I'll post my account of Yosemite soon, so watch out for that. Manjeet, Manjot and Ramandeep, you kids have to post!
2 comments:
i loved what you wrote it was fantastic and your English it was incredible but some parts i did not understand!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, Ravleen, when are you going to mail my Harry Potter book back?
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