1. Ron’s expression when Lavender draws the heart in the glass is all time.
2. Ron and Lavender in general.
3. “She has nice skin.”
4. I want a poster of Luna wearing the lion’s head.
5. Helena Bonham Carter is a little too good at doing the crazy.
6. Dave Legeno appropriately gives me the heebie jeebies.
7. I had no idea Jim Broadbent was going to be Slughorn. What a pleasant surprise!
8. Cormac McLaggen was hilarious. He called Hermione a minx. Ha!
Things I missed:
9. What, no memories from the House of Gaunt? I was looking forward to hearing parseltongue.
10. While I do generally like Alan Rickman and his portrayal of Severus Snape, does anyone else feel he’s just a little too subdued at times? Like, say, when Harry calls him a coward?
11. I wish the birds had actually attacked Ron. Why bother changing that?
12. Feeling a tad ripped off there was no fight sequence at Hogwarts at the end, esp with no Fleur and Bill. I rather liked the part in the book where Fleur snaps at Mrs. Weasley after Bill’s been attacked by Fenrir.
Odd Man Out:
13. What was with Slughorn’s fish/flower story anyway?
Regarding the other post I wrote about Harry Potter the Musical, here is the footage from the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference of me performing it in the contest. Thank you to Lisa Angle for videotaping the contest.
To recap, this was for a speedwriting competition. I was given a half hour to write a song for a musical based on the book Harry Potter (any one of them). This is the opening number to the first book.
As I mentioned in the previous post, I’m participating in game here at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference called the Ultimate Write-Off, in which you write some thing on the spot from a given topic within 20-40 minutes. In the previous post, it was a poem. The other night, it was dialogue in the style of a randomly selected writer (Tennessee Williams). Last night, it was descriptive prose about food (Fannie Flagg was our judge):
Tonight, we had to write a musical number in 30 minutes from a musical based on a book of our choice (we had to pick from a list). I went with Harry Potter (seemed an easy option to me). Here you go (much more entertaining if you could have seen me unabashedly singing this when I have no singing voice at all):
EDITED: Here are links to the SBWC website or SB Channels that have the footage of me performing this song in the contest.
Harry Potter - The Musical.
opening number: “He Lives”
one man is on the stage (dedalus diggle), while owls fly about.
owls everywhere
owls everywhere
not a drop of moonlight
but owls in the air
what is so important
what can have been done
(he reaches and takes a letter from an owl, reads it, and gasps)
HE LIVES!
HE LIVES!
(villagers pour onto the stage, singing)
Did you hear? Did you hear? Did you hear–
He lives!
Did you hear? Did you hear? Did you hear–
He lives!
Tell us, tell us, tell us!
What can have been done!
(Dedalus sings)
The darkest of the wizard world
the darkest in the land
he tried to kill that little boy
with an evil wave of wand
He snuck into the Potter’s house
James tried to save his wife
But he-e who must not be named
Quickly took their lives
