a) ...Oceana reads Harry Potter
b) ...Oceana watches Harry Potter
c) ...Oceana listens to Harry Potter
d) ...All of the Above
If you chose d), you get twenty points for you house!
Oceana listens to Harry Potter
We have the most wonderful Harry Potter audio books here in Germany. They are read by Rufus Beck, a German actor about whom, I can't tell you anything other than the fact that he reads Harry Potter like no one else could, and is therefore my hero. The books are really wonderful, charming, a totally different experience from reading and watching. I tend to read very fast and consequently miss details sometimes. Listening to the boks I don't have that choice and it makes me enjoy the books maybe a bit more. It's a clamer experiencing of Harry Potter than what I usually do. I've read the books in English and, of course, watched the movies in English. Some of the German words are different ("Hermine" instead of "Hermione"), but it doesn't make them less enjoyable. The German translations are very accurate and the different names and expressions may not be necessary, but are consequent and seem to be chosen with care.
I've been listening to the books for the last few weeks, I think I started in November. The great thing about listening to audio books is that you can do other things at the same time, and so I mainly listen to them when I do the dishes, iron, clean or cook.
One downside: last night I bought book 5 on ebay, now I'm looking for book 6, but it doesn't seem to exists as tapes. Listening to tapes is a nostalgic relic from my childhood. Listening to a CD or an mp3 is just not the same. But I just started book 4, so I still have some time to face the book 6 problem.
I highly recommend the Rufus Beck audio books to anyone who speaks German.
Oceana watches Harry Potter
Listening to the books again after almost, hmm, I think 5 or 6 years, made me want to rewatch the movies. Now, I hated the first movie when it came out. Everything that made Harry Potter special for me, Harry, the lonely kid who seems to have no idea how neglected he really was, finding a home, finding friends for the first time, was abandoned for a kid action movie. I also hated Daniel Whatshisname, who was nothing like the Harry Potter in my head. A friend of mine liked him, because, as she said, Harry was more quiet in the beginning, passive, and Daniel W. sure is passive. But my Harry was a stubbron fighter against all odds, and careful about trusting others, because he had never learned it, and at the same time longing for home and love so much that he was always in danger of getting hurt. Daniel W. was nothing like that.
When I watched the movie again a few years later, I still hated it and it's the only one of them that I don't own on DVD and have no intention of acquiring.
The next movies were slightly better, with the fourth being truly good. In the fifth, for the first time, I did not have to close my eyes when Daniel W. entered. Growing up has done him some good, he seems to have learned a bit. Or maybe there's better directing, since it is entirely possible that he acted as horribly as he did before because he was told to do so.
In the beginning, I hated the movies for limiting my imagination. Not only was my Harry different, my Hogwarts looked different, my world looked different. But when I read the books after the first movie, I found that my world still looked the same in my head, with the exception of things I always had trouble imagining, like Hagrid. In that way, the movies were a real success to me.
Except for the first, the movies got a bit better when I rewatched them. Maybe expecting less made me enjoy them more. Even Daniel W. didn't seems so bad when I watched them this last week (he was horrible in the third movie, though).
Oceana reads Harry Potter
...just not the books. I would love to reread the books. I will, hopefully soon, reread the last one, which I consumed in a fever-induced haze between passing in and out of consciousness on my couch in the middle of a months of working until way after midnight every day. I remember that the ending seemed to have been written by a twelve-year old fanfiction writer (and not a good one at that), but I still think that this was a fever hallucination.
However, at the moment I don't have the time to read the books again. I did read some fanfic though. Ever since I first read HP, I was all about Harry/Snape. In the short time that I was seriously involved in this fandom, I also read everything else that crossed my way, but now, the few times that I come back to it, it's Harry/Snape all the way. And boy, there are some great, LONG stories in HP fandom. I wonder if this is because HP is a fandom based on books, on a "long" medium, instead of on 45 minute tv-blops. Stargate has some epics, but it's not even worth mentioning against HP. Then again, most fandoms probably aren't as huge as HP. Who knows.
I know that I would come back to HP more often if it was a TV show, simply because you can easily watch a TV show during lunch, but not a movie, especially not a HP movie, which are always long, and yet never long enough.
All of the Above
HP a fandom that's not easily accessible to me in many way: the medium itself (one more reason to like the audio books), the fact that there are more pairings (and kinks) than flavors of Bertie Bott's beans and all of them seem to have serious followers, and the fact that many of the archives are locked, hidden or just disappearing. Not to mention the tale of the WIP, which have developed a life of their own in HP fandom, living happily ever-unfinished in the forbiiden forest, where they will grab you and draw you in and then leave you unsatisfied and in despair until the end of your days.
This will likely be my only or one of very few HP themed entries this year. Because of what I said above, I don't often indulge myself in HP. But when I do, I really do. This is one of those times, and I thought I should at least post about it.
(Harry/Snape recs, old or new, are always welcome, btw.)
b) ...Oceana watches Harry Potter
c) ...Oceana listens to Harry Potter
d) ...All of the Above
If you chose d), you get twenty points for you house!
Oceana listens to Harry Potter
We have the most wonderful Harry Potter audio books here in Germany. They are read by Rufus Beck, a German actor about whom, I can't tell you anything other than the fact that he reads Harry Potter like no one else could, and is therefore my hero. The books are really wonderful, charming, a totally different experience from reading and watching. I tend to read very fast and consequently miss details sometimes. Listening to the boks I don't have that choice and it makes me enjoy the books maybe a bit more. It's a clamer experiencing of Harry Potter than what I usually do. I've read the books in English and, of course, watched the movies in English. Some of the German words are different ("Hermine" instead of "Hermione"), but it doesn't make them less enjoyable. The German translations are very accurate and the different names and expressions may not be necessary, but are consequent and seem to be chosen with care.
I've been listening to the books for the last few weeks, I think I started in November. The great thing about listening to audio books is that you can do other things at the same time, and so I mainly listen to them when I do the dishes, iron, clean or cook.
One downside: last night I bought book 5 on ebay, now I'm looking for book 6, but it doesn't seem to exists as tapes. Listening to tapes is a nostalgic relic from my childhood. Listening to a CD or an mp3 is just not the same. But I just started book 4, so I still have some time to face the book 6 problem.
I highly recommend the Rufus Beck audio books to anyone who speaks German.
Oceana watches Harry Potter
Listening to the books again after almost, hmm, I think 5 or 6 years, made me want to rewatch the movies. Now, I hated the first movie when it came out. Everything that made Harry Potter special for me, Harry, the lonely kid who seems to have no idea how neglected he really was, finding a home, finding friends for the first time, was abandoned for a kid action movie. I also hated Daniel Whatshisname, who was nothing like the Harry Potter in my head. A friend of mine liked him, because, as she said, Harry was more quiet in the beginning, passive, and Daniel W. sure is passive. But my Harry was a stubbron fighter against all odds, and careful about trusting others, because he had never learned it, and at the same time longing for home and love so much that he was always in danger of getting hurt. Daniel W. was nothing like that.
When I watched the movie again a few years later, I still hated it and it's the only one of them that I don't own on DVD and have no intention of acquiring.
The next movies were slightly better, with the fourth being truly good. In the fifth, for the first time, I did not have to close my eyes when Daniel W. entered. Growing up has done him some good, he seems to have learned a bit. Or maybe there's better directing, since it is entirely possible that he acted as horribly as he did before because he was told to do so.
In the beginning, I hated the movies for limiting my imagination. Not only was my Harry different, my Hogwarts looked different, my world looked different. But when I read the books after the first movie, I found that my world still looked the same in my head, with the exception of things I always had trouble imagining, like Hagrid. In that way, the movies were a real success to me.
Except for the first, the movies got a bit better when I rewatched them. Maybe expecting less made me enjoy them more. Even Daniel W. didn't seems so bad when I watched them this last week (he was horrible in the third movie, though).
Oceana reads Harry Potter
...just not the books. I would love to reread the books. I will, hopefully soon, reread the last one, which I consumed in a fever-induced haze between passing in and out of consciousness on my couch in the middle of a months of working until way after midnight every day. I remember that the ending seemed to have been written by a twelve-year old fanfiction writer (and not a good one at that), but I still think that this was a fever hallucination.
However, at the moment I don't have the time to read the books again. I did read some fanfic though. Ever since I first read HP, I was all about Harry/Snape. In the short time that I was seriously involved in this fandom, I also read everything else that crossed my way, but now, the few times that I come back to it, it's Harry/Snape all the way. And boy, there are some great, LONG stories in HP fandom. I wonder if this is because HP is a fandom based on books, on a "long" medium, instead of on 45 minute tv-blops. Stargate has some epics, but it's not even worth mentioning against HP. Then again, most fandoms probably aren't as huge as HP. Who knows.
I know that I would come back to HP more often if it was a TV show, simply because you can easily watch a TV show during lunch, but not a movie, especially not a HP movie, which are always long, and yet never long enough.
All of the Above
HP a fandom that's not easily accessible to me in many way: the medium itself (one more reason to like the audio books), the fact that there are more pairings (and kinks) than flavors of Bertie Bott's beans and all of them seem to have serious followers, and the fact that many of the archives are locked, hidden or just disappearing. Not to mention the tale of the WIP, which have developed a life of their own in HP fandom, living happily ever-unfinished in the forbiiden forest, where they will grab you and draw you in and then leave you unsatisfied and in despair until the end of your days.
This will likely be my only or one of very few HP themed entries this year. Because of what I said above, I don't often indulge myself in HP. But when I do, I really do. This is one of those times, and I thought I should at least post about it.
(Harry/Snape recs, old or new, are always welcome, btw.)
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