This has to be the most clever and funniest fanfic I've ever read. You hit the nail on the head so perfectly on everything wrong with this movie. I can't wait for more!
This is fabulous! It says much of what I think about that pestilential third movie. The fourth and fifth movies looked great in comparison to PoA. I hate it when potentially wonderful movies are done on the cheap, and it looks like that's the way it's going to be from now on. Of course, the sixth book stunk pretty badly, so maybe that movie won;t completely bite a Brogdinagian verdant quadraped phallus.
Just read the story for the first time, and i 'm really enjoying it! Though I'm afraid i can't remember the movie, its been years since I've seen it, though I'd say that it's as bad as you say.
You should do a parody of the Goblet of Fire, that's even worse for leaving out plot points. The movie goes Some brief setting up... Really over the top first task... Really over the top second task... a completely different third task, and there's nothing in between.
Hope your next update won't take as long, as i would hate to have to wait four years!
What a hoot! This parodies one of my favorite scenes in PoA - the real scene, not what WB did to it - and I just love poking fun at movie!Hermione. Thanks for starting my day with a laugh. I missed this story.
I've just discovered this story and I love it! (I don't know how I'd have handled a four year wait.) I agree with your attitude completely. Film Hermione was not only wildly different from Book Hermione, she was also far less attractive/appealing.
Warner Brothers deliberately changed her into that generic Disney type heroine (Miley Granger) to appeal to the tween market. In the first film, audiences responded strongly to Ron, so he was changed so that he wouldn't take away from Harry - as if , three equally strong but different characters wouldn't make the films better. No matter how successful they were, I'm confident the films could have been better and even more successful financially, if they'd stayed closer to the books.
I should add, however, that while I'm no Kloves fan, apparently his first draft was far closer to the book and fairer to Ron - who even got to say that key line in the Shrieking Shack. It was the filmmakers who kept insisting on re-writes to back up the decisions I mentioned before and ended up with a complete dog's dinner of a script.
The sad part is that instead of JK Rowling kicking up a stink at what they'd done to her work, her canon characters started to change in the later books to be closer to the WB version. Hermione and Harry in particular were far less admirable towards the end.
Please keep updating - it's great to see my own thoughts echoed in this brilliant parody, while also having a good laugh!
