All About Potter
Friday, July 13th, 2007I went and saw Order of the Phoenix last night. It was good, but they did what was only expected. The fifth book is the longest of the series and so its natural to cut out parts in the magnitude of chapters. Also, some minor storyline changes had to be made in order to bridge those gaps. I understand that, but still there were some parts that just shouldn’t have been left out including a certain device that is so prominent in the book and books to come, that it was the cover of the fifth book.
A couple new characters were introduced and I thought they were great: “Tonks” and Luna Lovegood. Delores Umbridge was exactly as I pictured her.
For the IMAX version they make the final battle scene all in 3-D. It was very cool and made the Ministry Scenes look even better.
** Possible spoiler if you haven’t read books 5 and 6. scroll down a bit**
In the movie, we finally get to see the Black family-tree tapestry. Unfortunately, its impossible to understand the branch flow showing each generation. You can, however read the names of many of them. In the scene, they show three burned out family members, which threw caution to me since the tree has at least 7 members burned out for being disowned. By making sure there were at least three shows some importance to those members.
One was Sirius, the second I couldn’t make out but was very close to Sirius is assumed Tonk’s mother (married muggle, Ted Tonks) and the third was Alphard Black, the uncle of Sirius and Regulus who helped Sirius after he ran away.
We know Sirius is a good wizard, Alphard showed good and Regulus we learn was a death eater who turned away. This gives some more ground to the RAB theory. Majority claims its Regulus Arcturus Black, but I think he took the name of his uncle Alphard.
** End Spoiler**
Side note: If you look on wikipedia, a Charlus Potter is listed on the tree. He married Dorea Potter and had a son. I wasn’t able to spot it in the movie though.
Go see it. and if you like the movies, go read the books. You’re missing a ton of story.
