because this book is hella DULL

[jlh]

heidi8 posted a pic of the DA from the OotP movie here at fiction_alley. So my thoughts are

1. OMG Dean is so tall! That is awesome.
   
2. I think that's supposed to be Zacharias Smith second from the left. He looks like Peter Noone from Herman's Hermits.
   
3. Who is the "missing member of The Strokes" Ravenclaw next to him? Heidi's guess is Terry Boot; you NA fans out there will know why, if it is, that will never stop being funny.
   
4. Hurrah, Padma is definitely a Ravenclaw. Unless that's Cho's buddy whats-her-name. ETA: Wishful thinking; she's a Gryff, and definitely not Marietta, who I think is just Not In This Picture.
   
5. Wow, the twins look grown up with that short hair. Totally ready to leave school.
   
6. Where's Lavender? If they never cast her, what are they going to do in HBP, have Ron date . . . Padma? Parvati?
   
7. The Room of Requirement has some SICK drainage.

Comments

[morganmuffle]

Re 3. I assumed Michael Corner but if it is Terry that would be slightly fabulous.

no Lavender for Ron to date, no Marietta to betray them... a lot less interhouse unity too but if Padma's back in Ravenclaw I'll forgive a lot.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I assumed Marietta was just Not In This Picture, because that's definitely Parvati standing next to Cho.

Michael Corner, good call. Ginny only dates tall blokes unless they're Harry, apparently. Nice.

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Okay, Dean's just hot.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Tell it to kaalee. She's going to explode into a billion pieces when she sees this.

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

He's SO tall! Man. Talk about a growth spurt.

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

*explodes into a billion pieces*

[you have amazing powers of prediction]

[hermorrine.livejournal.com]

Who is the "missing member of The Strokes" Ravenclaw next to him? Heidi's guess is Terry Boot; you NA fans out there will know why, if it is, that will never stop being funny.

I'm already laughing.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Though I like the Michael Corner theory. He is apparently only labeled "creepy boy".

[hermorrine.livejournal.com]

Creepy boy, indeed! I'm good with it being Michael or Terry. *giggles*

[tartpants.livejournal.com]

Both the Patil twins look like they're in Gryff colors to me, or am I blind?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

No, you're totally right on second look. I'm not sure why it looked otherwise when I glanced at it the first time.

OMG Ron/Padma movie canon in HBP? No movie Lavender at all? Poor Lav. I mean, there's a movie SUSAN BONES, why not Lav?

[tartpants.livejournal.com]

No Lav-love, I guess! Who is the little shrimpy gryff boy on the end supposed to be?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I assumed it was a Creevey. Colin likely. I can't get to the captions as posted at FA at the mo as the servers are overloaded, haha.

[tartpants.livejournal.com]

Totally new Colin then, which is not surprising as ONTD had the original Colin's myspace and he's all goth and covered in facial piercings now. Though truthfully I would find a goth Colin so so so amusing.

[morganmuffle]

Could be wrong but I think that's "Nigel" who's the Colin substitute from GoF.

[zorb]

That's Nigel, the kid who showed up in GoF (movie version only). Filmmakers' version of an OC!

[tartpants.livejournal.com]

Oooh.

I guess it says a lot about how much I cared for the GoF film that I don't remember him at all.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Between him, no Lav and that random black kid in PoA we really ARE working up to a movie canon aren't we? Golly. It's like the more JKR doesn't conserve her characters the more the movie makers have to fuck with what she's doing because they have to.

[zorb]

Fortunately for them, new cast member requirements go way down after this one, presuming book seven follows the trend of six. All they'll need is a Slughorn and whatever elements of the flashbacks they decide to include.

[smilie117.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee Dean!!!

And looking at it again, I think it looks like Padma is wearing the Gryffindor colors - I think? I just put them up on FA http://forums.fictionalley.org/park/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117502 and attached the captions that came with them there.

Hmmm.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

No, you're totally right about Padma. I wonder if that means there will never be a Lavender? Poor Lav, no movie for her.

Dean rules me and Kaalee will totally freak out when she sees this!

[tartpants.livejournal.com]

So, I found Colin Creevey's myspace, heh (http://www.myspace.com/elfearsandbatdroppings)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

OMG that fucking RULZ MEEE. Adolescent rebellion is the shit, yo, especially since child actors are mostly all about pleasing the adults. Good for him!

[amyamy.livejournal.com]

DEAN! -swoons-

That's all I got right now.

[mmichelle.livejournal.com]

The eyes. THE EYES. I am being stared down by creepy British schoolchildren! They are going to EAT me, I swear. o_O

[aome.livejournal.com]

Dean's supposed to be tall. In his first appearance in PS/SS he's described as being "even taller than Ron". But, yeah, wow, he really shot up, as Neville's actor did the previous year.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know! (Please, I have every single appearance of Dean and Seamus in all the books tagged with a post-it flag in my American books.) It's more that it's exciting that Alfie is actually growing to be rather tall, "in fullfillment of canon"! Like, he looks like my mental Dean and that is really fun!

Devon didn't start out looking like my mental Seamus as his hair was too dark, but I've grown to love him too and I can't wait to see him in OotP because OMG! Fight! Entire plot!

[locumtenens.livejournal.com]

Wow, the twins look grown up with that short hair.

*snigger* And Titanic was an unfortunate accident?

They look about 35! Every time I look at them it makes me giggle. Heh.

[moony]

Seeing the pictures has me all sad now, because the movie is coming and I have to watch Sirius die. :-(

WHERE ARE MY BABY MARAUDERS PHOTOS?! *glares at WB*

And I think that longhaired kid is Michael Corner. Though omg, if it's Terry? That is so fucking hilarious.