Professor Adalbert Waffling retweeté
They are perfect and we need to protect them at all costs.
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Professor Adalbert Waffling
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Professor Adalbert Waffling
@ProfWaffling
Harry Potter / Fantastic Beasts fan! Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore out April 2022!
Mould-on-the-Wold Inscrit le Kasım 2021
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And for me none of the movies captured any of the deaths in the way the books did. They just felt "off". Dumbledore and Sirius deaths in particular are gut punches in the books but they never felt that way in the movies. Here's hoping the TV series can capture all the feels
Clarence Maximus@ClarenceMaximus
The Harry Potter books are KIND OF children’s books, but the truth is that it is the perfect series because it matures as you do, particularly with how it treats death. There is no death in books 1-3, except as a background discussion, but each book bring us closer and closer to it, to the point that book 3 is filled with death omens. Book 4 opens and closes with a death, but it’s the death of someone we don’t know very well. Book 5 shows us to the death of a loved one, book 6 involves the death of someone we believed invincible, and book 7 brings us the death of the protagonist himself. No series has ever nailed it like that.
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Professor Adalbert Waffling retweeté
The Harry Potter books are KIND OF children’s books, but the truth is that it is the perfect series because it matures as you do, particularly with how it treats death.
There is no death in books 1-3, except as a background discussion, but each book bring us closer and closer to it, to the point that book 3 is filled with death omens.
Book 4 opens and closes with a death, but it’s the death of someone we don’t know very well.
Book 5 shows us to the death of a loved one, book 6 involves the death of someone we believed invincible, and book 7 brings us the death of the protagonist himself. No series has ever nailed it like that.
The Alex Nowrasteh@AlexNowrasteh
I struck up a conversation with an elderly woman on an airplane in 2000. She asked if I’d read Harry Potter yet and I replied that I didn’t read children’s books. She lectured me about how it’s for adults too.
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Professor Adalbert Waffling retweeté
UK has given us some of the best bands of all time 🇬🇧
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Really hope the wait for Shrek 5 is worth it. 1 & 2 were amazing and then 3 & 4 dipped quite a bit
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Professor Adalbert Waffling retweeté
Many actors did not want to appear in the Harry Potter series because they disagree with JK Rowling's views but she forced them to participate anyway by holding them at gun point. HBO has spent millions digitally erasing gun barrels and Rowling screaming threats from off camera.
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The disapproval of cowards is praise to the brave
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Still waiting for @jk_rowling to take me for KFC. I wonder if Diagon Alley has any equivalent. Cauldron Fried Hippogriff doesn't quite have the same ring...
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Gonna try to be objective because Lithgow has potential to be the best incarnation of Dumbledore but his actions have rly put me off him. I mean if you disagree with Jo fundamentally (& feel the need to so publicly) despite accepting her cash, you're the worst type of hypocrite.
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@That_N8 Agree...I mean we're getting ANOTHER adaptation and one with a much longer screentime. I've never got the movie only mindset...like if that's your comfort movies nobody's taking them away from you. But equally let us enjoy the TV series!!
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@ProfWaffling Folks would be much happier if they consider everything new we're getting now as a bonus. What really matters are the books. Unless Jo ever writes another book set in this universe, there's no reason to freak out. People who think the movies will magically disappear are weirdos.
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As a book fan, I think it's safe to say the HP movies get a lot right but at the same time leave a lot to be desired in many ways. The same will undoubtedly be true of the new TV series. It's not going to be perfect but it doesn't need to be. It's an adaptation
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@LudicrousMonica It's going to be incredible. I'm so happy with it.
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@SwanDangerous Lol bitter much. I'm assuming he's just been told it's a no or something. Men are so predictable in their rejection behaviour 🤣
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Someone is mad they didn't get an audition after campaigning for 10 years lmao
Pop Base@PopBase
Andrew Garfield shades J.K. Rowling while praising the artists that worked on the ‘Harry Potter’ films: “[Daniel Radcliffe] is really good in the ‘Harry Potter’ films, the films are really good. I know it’s controversial and we shouldn’t be putting money in the pocket of inhumane legislations right now, through… she who shall remain nameless, […] but there are so many beautiful artists that worked on those films.” (youtu.be/YtDD9nUvicA?si…)
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100% this. Movie fans are the only ones complaining.
N8@That_N8
To be fair, most people I’ve seen complaining aren’t book fans and are only familiar with this universe through the movies by exposure, so they haven’t real knowledge of what they’re talking about. Most wouldn’t talk about Harry Potter, if it didn’t give them social media clout.
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Professor Adalbert Waffling retweeté
The absolute best Christmas present that we'll be getting Potter this year. Thank you @jk_rowling for keeping us on the nice list!!
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I feel like I'm a kid again. What a joyous time to be alive. Thank you so much @jk_rowling
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@That_N8 This, so much! Same for when diagon alley leaked. It looks so rich and lived in, like an actual street in England! I am so very hyped for this!
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I can’t process this. The colours, the textures. The world feels lived-in. It’s already portraying a very different vision of this world from the films. I’m loving it. #HarryPotterHBO
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Professor Adalbert Waffling retweeté
FIRST OFFICIAL PICTURE OF THE HARRY POTTER TV SERIES
More to come tomorrow ⚡️
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