Harry Potter Weekend on ABC Family
ABC Family is having a Harry Potter weekend this week. They showed Sorcerer’s Stone yesterday, and then repeated it today followed by Chamber of Secrets. Tomorrow They will be showing PoA, complete with a clip of the new film, Dr Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who.
Watching SS yesterday, I was struck by one thing. It has been ages since I watched it. I don’t think I’ve watched Sorcerers Stone since the release of Chamber of Secrets. The thing that got me most was how darn young the kids are. I know they are only 11, but they look like babies now that we have seen them grow up. They had already gotten so muc bigger between SS and Cos, but it is hard to believe how much older than that they look now. I knwo that they were the proper age for SS, each of them being about 10 or 11, the eldest of the trio being almost 12 (I think) when they started filming. The movies have been released one a year, although it took about a year and a half between CoS and PoA. People make fun, saying they are too old to be playing the parts anymore, but I disagree. And here’s why…
They are growing. The characters grew. Hell, even the Headmaster was gay… That is one of the things I admire most about the work, Jo allowed the characters to grow. We were not stuck with 700 books about this week in school, with 8 summer vacations before they finished year three. Each book was an entire year, and at the beginning of the next year the kids had aged and matured. The things that they had been through had affected them. They became adults. They fell in and out of crushes, and right into grown up love. They had spats, but they stuck together. They were REAL!!!
In the end, I think that is why these books have been so popular amongst all ages. Kids enjoy the wonder and magic of the stories, while adults enjoy that, as well as the drama and intricacy of the actual relationships between characters. So, watching Sorcerer’s Stone, when Harry’s little face it first shown, I can’t wait to see the end of Deathly Hallows, in harrowing scenes, where Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, not to mention all the other wonderful actors have to deal with very adult issues. A war between good and evil is being fought, and I can’t wait to see it!!!
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