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[phosfate]

Re-reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and so far I like it much better the second time. Scary inquisitor lady (WTF is her name...Widdle? Blowpipe?) is made even scarier by being played by Dawn French in my head. (Wage? Fritter? Makin?)

Fucker's still too heavy, though. Are the UK/Canadian editions smaller?

Comments

Editions

[danakate.livejournal.com]

Yeppers. Smaller print == fewer pages.

It's still a heavy fucker.

Also

[danakate.livejournal.com]

Downtown as in...Petula Clark?

Yes. *cries*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

See here:
http://www.journalfen.net/users/phosfate/46704.html

Re: Yes. *cries*

[danakate.livejournal.com]

Why did I click?

WHY DID I CLICK?

*cries with Ann*

(Still sick?

Re: Yes. *cries*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It's going away, apart from the ear torment, dizziness, and total exhaustion.

Re: Yes. *cries*

[shoiryu.livejournal.com]

...Actually parrots use their tongues to feel things, like we use our fingers.

/random fact.

Re: Yes. *cries*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I hate you a lot.

[carraway54.livejournal.com]

In my head, she's played by my 10th grade English teacher, to whom she bears an uncanny resemblance. Unfortunately this makes her less scary, more darkly hilarious.

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

Dolores Umbridge.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I'm suddenly attached to "Blowpipe," however.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Art?

Shiny pretty art soon maybe hopefully?

Inspiration in there?

Would inspiration come out if I feed you pipchiks?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Am drawing Weasleys. On paper much bigger than my scanner bed, but maybe Kinkos can handle it.

And...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

...what on Earth are pipchicks?

Re: And...

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Cookies. Light crispy fluffy merangue cookies.

People call them my crack cookies because they're addictively sweet and yummy.

[claudiall.livejournal.com]

"Order of..." made infinitely disturbing for me even the first time around, because of strinkingly (and I do mean that) resemblance between 'that Umbridge woman' and my homeroom teacher in 5th grade......even the illustrations looked like her! For God's sake! One is trying to forget!!

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

In my head Umbridge looks more like the actress who plays Mimi on Drew Carey... complete with eyeshadow. Only, you know, with a dialogue coach 'cos she's American.

[coreopsis.livejournal.com]

I liked it much better the second time too--or maybe it was the third. Whatever, the reading about a year after its release was my favorite one. I'm not sure why since some of the things that annoyed me the first time still annoyed me.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

You and I think alike. I'm so annoyed that they recast Dawn as the Fat Lady (as good as she was in PoA) because she was so totally Umbridge in my head from the first time I read it. Especially having heard her read the UK version of Coraline which is pretty damned creepy. (In other words, I know she can be EVIL too, not just the funny fat lady).

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Aw, DAMMIT! I didn't know. I haven't seen POA yet.

She'd be awesome, though, with maybe some variant on that "Hallo! I'm the Easter Bunny!" voice.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Sorry to spoil that bit for you -- I didn't realise you hadn't seen it. She's brilliant in it but, damn, she'd have been the perfect Umbridge.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Donworryboutit - spoilers are rarely a concern for me. Except for that time with Roger FUCKING Ebert and The Crying Game. I hate him so much.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

I normally don't care about spoilers either although I try to be good and not ruin things for other people in case they do care. Roger FUCKING Ebert spoils everything just by his existance -- I remember he was always giving away the endings and surprises to stuff in every movie review when I lived in Chicago. Big. Fat. Jerk.

[cybertardis.livejournal.com]

Dawn French (who played the Fat Lady in PoA) is who I cast in my head as Umbridge when I first read Phoenix, and I still can't get her out of my head. It'll be interesting to see who actually gets the role.

--sah

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

Those are awesome. In a really unholy way.

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

My work here is done.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAGH!!! *assaults*

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Downtown,/i> as originally sung by, um, lessee, Petula Clark? :g:

[queen-oblivia.livejournal.com]

holy crap! i saw her as Dawn French, too! maybe the Harry Potter people will pick up on our brainwaves and cast her in the movie. or have they already?