Harry Potter/Thanksgiving

Well, I finally saw Harry Potter last night. It was fun, but I am amazed at how many people have been giving it great ratings (10 out of 10, etc). Yes, the book was too long to fit into a two and a half hour movie. Of course they had to cut some stuff out. But why they cut out certain explanatory bits and left in the bit where Malfoy is transfigured into a ferret and bounced around by Mad-Eye Moody is beyond me. Yes, the ferret thing was funny, but I think it would have been nice to explain that Fleur is part Veela instead of just letting Ron look like he'd turned into a complete idiot over her for no reason. Also, some of the changes they made dumbed the movie down a bit. I think it was much easier to figure out who was behind it all and what was going on in the movie than in the book, mostly because he was clearly responsible for certain turns of events in the movie. In the book there are other people involved and the responsibility is a bit harder to trace. Whatever, it was still fun. Makes me want to read book 5.

I went over to my friends house at 9:30 yesterday morning. We had a fantastic breakfast in their backyard, then went over to their family's house for thanksgiving dinner. After sitting around there and knitting for a little while, we went over to another friends family home and had pumpkin creme brulee for dessert. Fantastic. I also heard from some old friends yesterday, which is always nice, but especially so on a holiday. I'm staying as far away from the malls as possible today. Maybe I'll rent a movie...

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