DH Audiobook & Hermione

[lightofdaye]

So I've been following up my listening to the Half Blood Prince audio book with listening to Stephen Fry read Deathly Hallows, and while I'm not usually one to go for the "lol wand = penis" thing, this quote out of context did make me snigger:

"No wonder I can't get it out, Hermione, you packed my old jeans, they're tight"

Plot bunny for anyone who's actually capable of writing right now: Hermione likes seeing Ron in tight jeans but it causes problems later.

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The other thing I've been noticing, that i'd seen commented on before and not really seen when reading to the books; is how different Hermione seems. As it she quite frequently seems to panic, or mess up or just plain burst into tears. I've only reached the bit where they're talking to Kreacher at Grimmauld place but still.

I don't know whether its supposed to show that Harry's the real hero and not her, or show that she's not coping as well with out the safety net of dumbledore/being at school, or just its done inadvertently while showing off how's Ron is now trying to be sensitive and supportive and all that jazz.

But it does strike me as weird.

Comments

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[nevrafire.livejournal.com]

While I'm not ready to jump on the Kloves defender bandwagon (still mad about Him giving Hermione-s ron line in PoA "if you want to kill harry, you'll have to kill us too!" and the way tooo long and explicit Horcrux kiss *GRRRR*

I think All characters got overly simplified for the movies-- The Dursleys are more cartoonish than awful, Molly Weasley is not such a "when she's mad run for cover", Snape is not as much nasty git, Ginny lost her nasty temper,etc,etc,etc

Partly is Kloves fault, partly is the fact than in the movies they simplified it a lot- as opposed to flesh it out like they would have been able to do in a tv show.

and I might be a weird exception but while I could clearly see Kloves sprinkling HHr all over the movies- there were certain scenes that came across as rather more friend-ship-y to me.
(I personally saw the dance scene as one of them, but I know most fandom utterly disagrees with me)

and I personally always saw the Ron/Hermione-ness in the movies- both in Big and small ways-- and personally think that Romione was relatively well done and not that forced or Rushed (as opposed to Harry/Ginny which WAS REALLY Blatantly Forced And rushed and twisted up because they cut out 90% of the Harry/Ginny-ness from the books )

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[nutmeg-44.livejournal.com]

I know they have to condense to fit but so many crucial details were left out or altered that it annoyed me. The Harry/Ginny romance was so rubbish. They ignored Ginny for the whole series then shove her at Harry at the last minute and they somehow have this epic romance.