Wild about Harry- Potter that is!

[Lady Rebecca]

So alas, it looks like I will be going by myself.

But I'm still excited. I just don't know if I will want to fully dress up...

[Taffy Saltwater]

Time magazine article:  http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1910165,00.html?xid=rss-nation-yahoo

[Queen Bonnie]

 Good article. I liked the video on Wizard rock too!  Not long now until Movie time!
I am getting my garb ready!

[Khaalis]

I am purposely holding off until the weekend after the movie opens at IMAX (so some point between Fri 31st and Sun the 2nd). Can't wait. I am really glad they filmed both movies together though. The "kids" are a wee old to have filmed the last movie 2 years from now. lol

[Taffy Saltwater]

If they had waited for another two years to start filming, it would be about 4 years until it came out at theaters.  It's a shock to see the ickle first years in Sorcerer's Stone transform into young adults.

Why isn't it midnight already?

[Blue66669]

I'll be at the midnight showing tonight! Hmmmmm, I wonder where my sorting hat went...

[Queen Bonnie]

 I loved seeing all the pictures of the cast growing up too!
I loved Harry's longish hair in Goblet of fire!
I have to wait until Saturday for the movie- but my garb is ready.

[Tygrkat]

Midnight can't get here soon enough ~ how am I supposed to concentrate on work today 

[LadyShadow]

As it looks my outta town guest wont be here this weekend.  And I can go fabric shopping and then to see the movie    I'm really excited, I cant wait.

[Charlotte Rowan]

Jealous... looks like I'm waiting until Saturday too. It looks really good though!! I"m so excited!!! I've been re-reading sections of the book and I'd forgotten how funny it still is, even as the story gets so much darker and more serious.

[Jademozingo]

Going to the midnight showing at a lexington theatre, a friend is picking tickets up sometime today.  Deciding whether my bf is goign to be weirded out about my purple wizard's robe...

[Taffy Saltwater]

Nothing like a trial by purple robe to sort out the keepers.

EDIT to add:  LA Times interview w/Michael Gambon; scroll down to the bottom & there are tons of HP linkies to follow!  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/07/harry-potter-countdown-michael-gambon.html

[Taffy Saltwater]

A little after 4 a.m. & just got home and all I can say is: WOOHOO!  The boys were charming with their obsessions about the girls' "nice skin".  Were there ever more virginy virgins than this lot?

Snape's robes are much reduced and don't billow but follow him around like a dreadful shadow.  The kid who played Tom Riddle was a real scene stealer.  The special effects are just that.  It starts out light and breezy and mainly concerned w/teenage hormones and then falls into a deep cesspool of dread.

There were lots of people in HP t's, some kids in robes, a very nice Hagrid and Dolores (including the quill of doom and cup & saucer).  My Snape garb made its debut tonight & lots of fangirls had their picture taken w/me.  The Aquarium restaurant had an owl there and answered questions.  I won a BIG two sided poster re why was the guest Mad Eye so thin?  My answer:  he was locked up in a trunk the entire school year.  On the way out I bought a ticket for the IMAX matinee on the 29th.

Finally, I met fellow RF'er Blue there after the movie.  All in all, it was a GREAT evening & an even BETTER movie!

[Tygrkat]

NEED.MORE.COFFEE. 

Taffy, they were adorable talking about who has 'nice skin', and the young Tom Riddle was quite striking...and, as always, the Quiddich scenes were thrilling.

I didn't go in costume, and I saw more girls in 'schoolgirl' outfits, some accented in house colors, most not. There were also a couple of recent graduates in their robes who brought wands with them, and they chased a 'dementor' (read - another kid with a garbage bag ofer his head/torso) through the theater as the previews started ~ they were cute.

I loved the movie, it was well worth it but I'm exhausted, and now I have to get ready for work...keep the coffee coming! 

[Blue66669]

MUST.HAVES.MORE.COFFEE!!!!!

Can you believe that as we left, another group was getting ready to go in??? YES! They had a 3:30am showing!