Somehow, I had never seen a Harry Potter movie before yesterday. Continuing through today I will watch all six films leading up to tonight's preview screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. And I will liveblog the entire experience because, well, why not? I'll be checking the comments if you have any words of explanation or encouragement. Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire, and Order of the Phoenix are down -- this f*cking thing is finally almost over! Let's start Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Seriously, thanks to everyone who read and/or commented to help get me through. I can't believe it; I've seen every Harry Potter movie! Onward to Deathly Hallows tonight!
5:44 p.m. End credits!! It's over!! (Well, except for tonight.)
5:41 p.m. OK, so tonight's movie will be about finding this R.A.B. fellow, I suppose.
5:38 p.m. I feel that Avada Kedavra sounds too much like Abra Cadabra -- which is also a bad Steve Miller Band song.
5:35 p.m. So Snape is a bad guy after all? I guess I should have seen that coming since, well, he's played by Alan Rickman.
5:32 p.m. Who would win in a fight, Draco or Drago from Rocky?
5:26 p.m. Will drinking an immense amount of liquid potion cause frequent restroom breaks? Is it like really hot chicken wings? Where it's painful on the other end, too?
5:20 p.m. Just a note to anyone who happens to run into me in person tonight: I may be a little on edge.
5:15 p.m. Hey, Dumbledore just mentioned the events from The Chamber of Secrets. And I knew what he was talking about.
5:10 p.m. Who would win a battle of The Chosen Ones? Harry Potter or Anakin Skywalker?
5:02 p.m. I feel this is a completely different movie than the ones I started watching yesterday.
4:59 p.m. I actually think it would have been really great if Harry would have just killed Malfoy right there. Ah, stupid healing spell. That was a pretty fantastic scene.
4:55 p.m. What are the odds that WB will let me take my laptop into the screening tonight? A seventh live blog? Why not?
4:49 p.m. Now I feel bad suggesting that considering it appears that Ron is dying.
4:45 p.m. Did Harry just catch Ron masturbating? That smile he had on his face looked like a masturbation smile. Do wizards do that? Or is there a spell for that?
4:42 p.m. By the way, I am REALLY struggling.
4:39 p.m. Really? there's no spell for "put out a house fire"?
4:35 p.m. Oh, I see, Voldemort is a play on his name ... got it. (Thanks, Marty.)
@milessilverberg Seamus should take that act on the road. It's pretty funny.
4:26 p.m. I like how Harry is getting cocky about being "the chosen one." I feel that I would be cocky about that, too.
4:18 p.m. I'm watching the dinner scene where Horace asks Hermione about her muggle parents. Muggles seem like such afterthoughts in these movies. Are they still causing wars? Curing diseases? Watching Burn Notice? Is life going on as we know it?
4:12 p.m. OK, the scene involving Katie Bell was quite disturbing. It looked like something that belonged in Black Swan.
4:06 p.m. I feel if Quidditch were real, I would not be very good at it.
4:02 p.m. I could never come up with something that evil sounding. If I were evil and had to change my name, it would wind of being something like Knucklebun or Scoodlehip. See, there's no way that would work.
4:00 p.m. I have to give Tom Riddle credit for choosing the name Voldemort. It is an ominous sounding name.
3:55 p.m. Another Harry Potter drinking game: Every time something explodes in a student's face which turns said student's face black and causes his hair to shoot straight up.
3:53 p.m. Here's what I keep forgetting: I have a whole other one of these to sit through tonight.
3:49 p.m. Why does the dark arts professor change every year? I feel I wouldn't unpack my bags if I took over that position.
3:41 p.m. It's nice to see that Malfoy has finally completed his transformation into a British, more d*ckish, Owen Wilson.
3:39 p.m. I feel there has to be a better way to get to Hogwarts than train. Why can't they just use the method they used to get to the World Cup?
3:36 p.m. My god, the guys who play Ron's brothers have aged about 30 years over the course of these films.
3:32 p.m. During Sorcerer's Stone I mentioned that I used to think that Dumbledore was pronounced Dumbledorf. In my defense, half the time it does sound like they're saying Dumbledorf. Especially Emma Watson.
3:28 p.m. Horace just said, "I taught the whole Black family," while talking about Sirius. That line made me think of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
3:26 p.m. I admire that Harry hasn't updtated his glasses to the hipper square look. Good for him.
3:23 p.m. I thnk I like Gambon better as Dumbledore. Is that wrong to say? I feel he's less cranky.
3:21 p.m. Ha. Dumbledore looks like a buffoon dressed like that on a train platform. Kind of how baseball players look silly wearing their uniform not on a baseball field.
3:15 p.m. I haven't had a lot of human contact over the last 29 hours. I'm afraid that I'm going to become one of those weird Americans who develop an accent after spending too much time around British people.
3:09 p.m. I thought a preview was the start of the movie. It was a preview for a Harry Potter video game. I was thinking that the effects had really gone down hill since the last film ... but had also improved in some areas. Alas....
3:05 p.m. Here's what is weird to me: I just went from one of those "have never seen a Harry Potter" people to now almost being a "have seen every Harry Potter" person. Neither feels quite right.
PREVIOUSLY
· Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
· Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
· Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban