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Hermione - Harry Potter - How annoying!

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Tahani · 17/10/2018 12:25

She is just annoying, much more so in the film than the books.

Just watching the Goblet of Fire, and she's 'ooo Victor is so physical... well he isn't loquacious, he likes to watch me study'

she just really grates on me...

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mumofmunchkin · 18/10/2018 08:25

Neville and Luna got together at the end of the films, or at least Neville declared he was in love with Luna, but that’s not hinted or suggested in the books.

Moo678 · 18/10/2018 08:25

I absolutely adore her in the books and in the films.

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Tahani · 18/10/2018 08:42

Neville certainly blossomed, probably the most out of all of them

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CupMug · 18/10/2018 09:26

Both Harry and Hermione have the misfortune to have been played by two of the worst actors in the business.

I agree. There must have been someone better to be Harry.

AngeloMysterioso · 18/10/2018 09:40

They need to do a tv adaptation, there’s just too much to fit into the films and they ended up sacrificing whole subplots and loads of characters so they wouldn’t be too long.

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Tahani · 18/10/2018 09:49

ooh can you imagine if they did it as a series? that would be really cool

using the same production quality as Game of Thrones....

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IzzyGrey · 18/10/2018 10:51

I find Emma Watson to have been a terrible choice for Hermione. She does make her very annoying. She just couldnt act at that age! Even Daniel Radcliffe is pretty crap in it (then again unlike her I don't think he ever improved). Rupert Grint is by far the best actor and best character, in my opinion!

NoHufflefucksGivenMugglefucker · 18/10/2018 11:46

Re makes of the films?! Is this likely to ever happen??

FunSponges · 18/10/2018 12:15

Placemarking for later.

Thisnamechanger · 18/10/2018 12:20

Ginny takes the wooden spoon though. My kettle has more acting skills.

Agreed. How in God's name did she get cast.

BookMeOnTheSudExpress · 18/10/2018 12:30

screenrant.com/harry-potter-casting-decisions-hurt-saved/4/?v=8

Because she had red hair apparently!

Interestingly, her wikipedia entry has the flag that "this entry was submitted by someone with close connections to the subject" thing, that they usually put when their mammy has written the article.

CruCru · 18/10/2018 13:56

I think the actors in the HP films were okay. The films weren’t amazingly well acted but they started out very young and quite a lot of the dialogue itself was a bit clunky.

I got the impression that the films became a bit of a train that none of the main actors could get off.

I know someone who used to work with Emma Watson’s mum. She (EW) attracts a LOT of stalkers / perves / nutters and they would ring her mum at work because they were so keen to have some connection to her - the receptionists ended up working out who was a genuine caller and who wasn’t.

simiisme · 18/10/2018 19:49

Love the books.
Love the films.
Went to HP world (two years ago) and it was the best birthday present I've ever had. Would go again tomorrow.
I'm 51 and still watch the films when they come on TV.

Carriecakes80 · 18/10/2018 21:23

I think they are a lovely escape, the kids at the childrens home I worked in thought they were wonderful, magical, and I loved seeing them happy and engrossed, I got my pleasure for the films from that. Plus her hair was meant to look diabolical, it always was messy and unkempt in the books!
Bring out a book yourselves all you haters and lets see if you draw in half the dosh JK did lol.

But yeah, Daniel Radcliffe was bloody awful... ;-) x

SalemBlackCat4 · 18/10/2018 21:50

I got the impression that because she was half-muggle, she felt she had to work harder to prove herself worthy of being a witch and attending the school. So I usually over-looked her pedant and know-it-all ways because of that.

ProfessorMoody · 18/10/2018 22:48

Neville and Luna got together at the end of the films, or at least Neville declared he was in love with Luna

Eh? No they didn't 😂

iliketomoveitmoveitMOVEIT · 18/10/2018 22:49

Was she a half muggle? If her parents were both non-magical and she was a witch, would that make her half-muggle? Or would a half muggle be like seamus, with a witch mother and non magical father?

I am overthinking this Blush

theWarOnPeace · 18/10/2018 22:52

God I would absolutely love a high-end TV reboot of the entire HP franchise, as pp said with GOT production quality. Who should we have as the characters? It’s funny because even as I’m posing that as a question, the film characters are stuck in my brain! Even the dire DR and EW, they’re overtaking my attempts to imagine a replacement. At the time of goblet of fire I remember thinking - Cedric doggies should have been Harry!! The ages of adults all being wrong, the wooden child actors, lack of depth to the story were absolutely terrible to watch though IMO. I only really watched to help pad out and visualise the world which I had already become very familiar with, but I can’t imagine watching the films without having the context and substance of the books. The missing of some of the main revelations and kind of anti-climax in the final battle between HP and Voldemort was outrageous. I have always thought, also, that the issue surround Neville as having potentially being “the chosen one” should have been explored in more depth. As he finished off the snake, he could be considered also to have the power to vanquish the dark lord, although V did not “mark him as his equal”. I think there should have been some exploration of Neville finding that out and processing that information. There’s not much reflection going on with any of them, which is terrible considering that it’s pretty much all one big trauma 😅 ok so TV reboot, who we having? Can the people supposed to be in their 30s please not be in their 60s? That’s all I’m asking for!

SalemBlackCat4 · 18/10/2018 22:55

I thought only one of her parents were magical? Hence the mud-blood slur Malfoy used against her. Unless I am confusing her with another character.

theWarOnPeace · 18/10/2018 22:58

Her parents were both muggles. Same for Lily Potter, muggle-born.

DiseasesOfTheSheep · 18/10/2018 23:10

Christ if we went around calling all the half-bloods mudbloods, that's Voldemort himself - and I don't fancy your chances of calling him a mudblood and getting away without nagini-fangs in your neck... Half-bloods are perfectly acceptable - provided they're willing to "prune their family trees" where necessary Grin

ProfessorMoody · 18/10/2018 23:14

Hermione is Muggleborn. Seamus is a Halfblood.

SalemBlackCat4 · 18/10/2018 23:25

Ah, I must be confused then somewhere along the line. I thought if one had a magical parent and a muggle parent, the you are half-blood ie "mudblood". Where as both Lily and Harry's father were magical, making him pure blood? I must have it wrong, will have to re-read or re-watch. Blush

MistressDeeCee · 18/10/2018 23:59

Better than charisma-free Harry Potter - the Master of the anti-climax. I can't listen to Hermione's voice for too long but at least she gets things done. Harry..well, he's just 'there' isn't he.

All the scenes where he faces the Dark Lord are shit.

GrandTheftWalrus · 19/10/2018 00:50

Harry is a half blood. His dad was a pure blood and his mum a mudblood. So because his mum was a first generation witch he couldn't be pure blood.

You've got all 3 with their friendship. Pure blood, half blood and mudblood.

I usually say muggleborn but was easier due to the blood part lol.