30 Days of HP Meme - Days 23 and 24
01. Discuss how you got into Harry Potter
02. Your favorite book
03. What house would you be in?
04. Your favorite movie
05. Wizard Rock: discuss
06. Your favorite character(s)
07. Song that reminds you of HP
08. Your favorite ship(s)
09. Fanfiction: discuss
10. Favorite book moment(s)
11. Character you're crushing on
12. Favorite movie scene
13. Least favorite character(s)
14. Moments in the books/movies that made you cry
15. Whatever tickles your fancy
16. How have you participated in the fandom over the years?
17. Your favorite celebs from the movies or fandom
18. If you could change one thing about canon, what would it be?
19. A favorite fanart
20. A favorite quote
21. How has the HP fandom connected you to other fandoms, interests, or people?
22. Your favorite villain
23. Share some HP icons
24. Rant about Steve Kloves something
25. Song that reminds you of HP
26. What aspect of the books has been best translated to film?
27. What aspect of the books has been most poorly translated to film?
28. Hogwarts subject you would most like to take
29. Favorite location
30. Whatever tickles your fancy
23. Share some HP icons
I stink at photo embedding (at least when dealing with lots of photos and LJ), and I only have a few icons myself - most of which you all have seen on my posts. So instead, I'm going to rec two of my favorite icon artists, purely_distel and princessbloomy. purely_distel has moved a bit away from HP of late, but she has awesome icons that span a lot of fandoms including Dr. Who, Merlin, and others. The very first icons I ever used on LJ were from purely_distel 's icon comm, creative_cherry . In fact, the one I used for this post was the very first one I ever got. Go there and check it out!! My more recent discovery is princessbloomy whose comm is bloomyicons . The shading and effects in princessbloomy 's icons is superb, and there are lots of fun animated ones there too. And loads of HP-centric ones. Loads.
24. Rant about Steve Kloves something
Sigh. I dunno. I really thought I'd have a lot to talk about when this day of the month finally came, but...eh. I don't like some of the choices he's made, particularly re-assigning Ron's lines to Hermione in certain instances, but I kind of feel that it takes far more than just the screenwriter to actually make the film, and while he may tilt the screenplays in certain ways, the director still chooses the shots and creates the movie from the text...so when something goes in a way that fans don't like, it's just a bigger thing than it being one person's fault, is all I'm sayin'. I also felt that OotP, the one film he didn't write, was actually one of my least favorites in terms of overall story flow. It felt "sliced and diced" to me - specific choices aside, I think Kloves does know how to create a cohesive narrative arc. (Although, as I think on it more, he doesn't always...he never really created any sort of believable relationship between Ginny/Dean in HBP. We didn't see very much of them together, and we didn't actually see their breakup at all, and Hermione *telling* Harry these things about Ginny/Dean's relationship in a way where the audience was just supposed to assume that they were true without question kind of weakened that whole part of the plot, hence Harry's jealousy and eventual re-connection with Ginny felt a bit stilted.). So, yeah...don't hate him, but I don't love him either. Major ambivalence!!