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    What if Emma had quit

    in Harry Potter

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    I hate that argument. Hermione was never written as unattractive. Or at least, Harry never described unattractive attributes to her (and we are reading from his point of view). Saying she has bushy hair and long front teeth is like saying Summer Glau has brown eyes. It's not in any way shape or form reflects his or my opinion on Hermione's hair or Summer's eye color, it just tells you what a person looks like.

     

    Yep, I agree. It's heavily implied in the Goblet of Fire that Hermione was becoming quite attractive, such was her attention from Viktor Krum, and GoF came out in 2000, before Emma had been cast. Emma certainly fit the bill for appearance when she was cast, but it turns out she blossomed into what she is. Though I do wonder sometimes if Emma had slight influence on the way J.K wrote Hermione in the last 2 books?

    What if Emma had quit

    in Harry Potter

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    Correct me if I'm wrong but after just having a quick browse of Emma's wikipedia page it says she was reluctant to sign on in 2007 for the last films, so she would have missed HBP and both DH films. If that's true then I feel that it would have been too late for her to leave and for someone else to step in. It just wouldn't feel right.

    Best people to travel with?

    in Travel & Vacation

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    If you're doing the whole backpacking thing, I'd actually go it alone. It's more fulfilling and you'll meet some incredible people! I did it with 2 others earlier this year, and got annoyed with one in particular. When I go again in a few years time I'm definitely going alone!

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows PT2 Premiere

    in Emma Images and Media

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    I was there (sort of). With 4 glaring emissions. I didn't get to see Dan, Rupert, Emma or Jo. Let me explain.

     

    Ok so I arrived at Trafalgar square at about 9am on the 7th with a couple of mates, after getting a night bus down to London in which I got no sleep at all. We went and asked the stewards if there were any wristbands left, they basically laughed at us and said we had to be there 2 days before. But some other stewards said there would still be places to stand even if you didn't have a wristband where you could meet the stars. Fair game we thought, and went for a drink in Wetherspoons. We went back to the square at around 11 to find that it was being progressively shut down, and that the place where we (non wristband holders) would be able to stand was now only going to be for wristband holders. There were plenty of people in the same boat as us as well.

     

    So we basically spent the next hour or so walking around the site, and essentially all non wristband holders were being told to f off. We got bored, and went to the national gallery for a while, which made us even more bored. When we came back outside, around 1.30pm the wristband holders were being penned in in the middle, and fencing was being put up around the edges of the square. This was 8 foot tall fencing, and it was covered so that no one from the outside could see through. This was the big kicker for me: there was so much more room in Trafalgar square for thousands of people, yet the organisers had taken it upon themselves to be obnoxious, callous idiots. They say 8000 were in the centre of Trafagar, I reckon there was at least another 10,000 trying to get in from the outside, or trying to get a good vantage spot. Anywhere where there was a small viewing gap, stewards were posted tell people to move away so that no one could look in. We spent a good while looking around and basically anyone without a wristband was treated like dirt and told to go home.

     

    However, we noticed that the red carpet stretched away from the top of Trafalgar, towards Leicester square. We followed the route, and while more stewards were posted along the way to keep everyone away, they were allowing people to stand in the small amount of Leicester square that wasn't a building site. I'd say a good 3000 were in Leicester square by the time we got there, but I managed to find a relatively good spot about 5 rows from the barrier. This was at about 2.40pm. Again, the stewards were generally being unfriendly, and tried to block the view of more people with some more fencing, but the whole crowd seemed to protest and they took it down. There was a gentleman near me who had his daughter on his shoulders, and a steward was trying to get him thrown out as he refused to obey the stewards calls in trying to force him to put her down. And rightly so, as he was in a public place, and is perfectly allowed to have his daughter there so she could get a better view. The steward eventually gave up anyway.

     

    So we were standing there until about 6pm when the first people walked past, all of them just competition winners and unknown people. At 6.30 the first minor celebrities trickled through, and it was basically the usual premiere atmosphere, screaming, the people on the front row getting autographs etc. Closer to 7 o'clock we started seeing the HP cast members. A few stopped to give autographs, but it was clear that they'd just spent the last 2 hours doing so in Trafalgar so they really were getting fed up, and only signed a few, which is fair enough. I remember seeing pretty much everyone, and when Tom Felton came he made sure to run around every last bit of the crowd giving high fives out, which I duly received. He seems like such a nice lad in person! Around 8pm most of the actors had been past and had headed up to the cinema about 50m away from where I was standing. Natalie Tena, who plays Tonks, had been told by someone to move on up to the cinema but she came running back down and signed more autographs which was nice of her. We then waited a while for The trio and Jo, and eventually 4 cars came past with blacked out windows. It was clear who they were. They drove right to the door of the cinema, which meant I knew when they were there as I heard loud screaming from just up the carpet, but none of them came down to the bit where there were a good couple of thousand fans waiting. I imagine that they had been told to get into the cinema as it was well after 8 but I reckon if it was down to them they'd have come and seen all the other fans. Bit of shame really.

     

    So all in all, it was a reasonable day, I'm glad about getting a high five with Tom Felton. I'm just annoyed about not seeing Emma, even though when her car drove past I was probably about 15 feet away from her. I just wanted to make it clear to you guys who weren't there what is was like for the people who didn't get into the inner bit in Trafalgar, and how badly in general the premiere was organised! Around 6pm, I'd guess that there were around 40,000 people in the surrounding area trying to get a look, so the 8000 in the middle should count themselves lucky!

     

    But I'll see her one day, who knows, maybe My Week With Marilyn or Perks of Being a Wallflower will have some sort of premiere? But I will say that if (when?) I ever do see Emma, it'd be nice to see her somewhere other than a premiere, as with all the screaming fans it'd be hard to get a word in edgeways.

     

    Sorry for writing so much, hopefully it's a good heads up for anyone going to the NY premiere.

    Random Travel Discussion

    in Travel & Vacation

    Posted

    I kind of have this idea one day of crossing Eurasia by hitchhiking. Mad, I know, but it'd be incredible. Probably from Paris to Singapore, and I'd love to go through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. How many people do you know who've visited there while travelling? It would be such an experience.

     

     

    As for my favourite place I've been, probably Vietnam. It's a great country with so much history, culture and great cuisine etc, and the Vietnamese are doing well despite being crippled by war. The only bad thing is the stupid communist government they have there, yet the people don't realise how much better their lives could be without it.

    Meet Up For Deathly Hallows Part 2 London Premiere

    in Harry Potter

    Posted

    I'm so angry, have just found out about this. Luckily I'm going to be arriving around 9am on wednesday so my friends and I should be fine. Another friend of mine however couldn't get the 6th off work so was going to come that evening. I have no idea if this is too late and if there will be wristbands left. Have even emailed them asking what the cut off point is but so far I have had no reply. Really disappointed :(

     

    What's the email address for that? I might drop them an email. To be honest if I get there and they don't let me in without a wristband I'll probably end up kicking off, they'll be a few in the same boat I imagine. Then again I read that at the last premieres you could arrive in the morning and they'll still be plenty of space left. What I don't want to see is people picking up wristbands on the 6th then going home or whatever and just strolling into Trafalgar square at 5pm on the 7th right to the front row with a load of other people missing out.

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