you know there's this movie out this week?

Okay, here we go, with links to my first reactions and everything:

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone I saw by myself at a noon screening being held by Time magazine. I got up that Saturday morning, read the book in three hours, walked into that screening, came home, and read the other three books over the course of that weekend. I'd owned PS since GoF came out, but couldn't push my way through that Dahl-esque Dursleys bit (too close to the bone). The movie coming out gave me a reason to do it.
   
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was the first real fandom event I went to/helped organize. I had an online gang of friends who stayed in my rather tiny flat, and also a local gang of online/offline friends, and we went to a midnight showing and were ridiculous, and then I hosted a huge party in said tiny flat, during which bhanesidhe drew the art that is in my icon.
   
3. Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban I saw at the the New York premiere at Radio City, and then after that at the PoA IMAX thing in Lincoln Square, another fandom gathering. It is still my favorite. Both times I saw it surrounded by fandom types and that was pretty awesome. My big memory of that is riding in a cab with scrabble talking about the ending of Nocturne Alley.
   
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire I saw with a big crowd of local folks, and it was either at this screening or at OotP that blackholly infamously said that JKR thinks that falling in love makes you into an asshole.
   
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix I saw with at least ziggy1278 and ali_wildgoose though I don't say who I was there with in my entry, oddly. I'd forgotten that the movie came out just a week before the HP&DH book.
   
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince I saw at a matinee either with my roommate aethelflaed2 or with ali_wildgoose, because by then I'd read HP&DH and checked out of the narrative. Like the book, it reminded me, post-OotP, why I loved the books in the first place, being full of teen hijinx and character moments.
   
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 I also saw with aethelflaed2, low key at our local movie theater and somewhat prodded by her, because I did not love that book.
   
8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 I saw last night with ali_wildgoose and emsariel and hoshizora and aethelflaed2.

( spoilery thoughts on the movie )

And Seamus and Dean, together at the end. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥