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Hit Oxford after work yesterday. The only thing new out was Master and Apprentice #2. I also picked up a new copy of TF:Armade:MTMtE #1 since the original one I had huge printing errors.

It was a surprise to find out that Kamakura was Wade Collins' stepson. Or is he? He did get a pretty nasty wound from Storm Shadow at the end, maybe he'll die too and some other dude will become Kamakura! ha! And Wade's team was wiped out at the end of the last issue? It didn't seem like it. Unless they were all killed in the explosion.

Went around Lenox afterwards. Amusingly enough, got home and no more than an hour later, the roomie managed to get home early (well, by 6) for the first time in weeks and we went up to Lenox (hey, I love the mall, I can go multiple times) cause he had some shopping to do. Had dinner at Roaster's where the kinda cute (well, by my standards) hostess found my "trust me, I'm a doctor" t-shirt amusing. Got back, saw that there was nothing on the telly, so went and saw the new Harry Potter flick. The roomie had already seen it with

phatjoe last week, but I guess he was up for seeing it again.

It seemed like they wanted to have more magical effects/occurances than the previous films. Not that that's a bad thing, I thought the special FX were good. Though one of my favorite parts of the movie was the ongoing Hermoine appearing out of nowhere gag.

Speaking of, my favorite line of hers in the movie had nothing to do with her punching out Malfoy or anything like that. It was actually, "Does my hair really look like that from behind?" when her future (or is it her present?) self was viewing her past self. Oh, that was another neat part of the movie. I always enjoy time-travelling hi-jinks, especially when it was clear that they hadn't gone back to the past to change anything, they were just doing everything they knew was already gonna happen, they just didn't realize they were the ones responsible. I always liked the deterministic school of time travel theory. Sure, the free will people are all offended because choice is taken away. And its prolly cause I'm lazy and get anxious when it comes to responsibility, but I find it refreshing. You know, there's no pressure there, if its something you've seen or know will happen then you know you can't mess it up. Of cource, that also means you couldn't use time travel to prevent bad things from happening that have already happened. But I digress. I hear the book doesn't really do the "Oh wow, the mysterious thrown rocks or the convenient howling was them helping themselves out" and the only thing really covered was Harry shooing the Dementors away at the lake.

I also heard there were some things left out which upon hearing sound neat for the story but I can see why they cut those for the movie as not neccesary. Like the movie didn't talk as much about James Potter's little clique as the book did. Or how Lupin recognized the map because he was the one who made it back when they were in school. And those keywords for the map where Lupin, Sirius, James, and Peter's nicknames. That, while neat, isn't neccesary to the storytelling experience. Though I don't remember if they ever explain why Sirius chose to escape then, after 12 years. I mean, I'm told in the book, its because he saw that picture in the paper of the Weasley family in Egypt with Ron holding rat-dude and recognized it was Peter and learned Ron went to Hogwarts and that's why he went there. It is odd, because if you cut out that reason, why bother to have that paper with the picture of the Weasleys on the table at the beginning of the movie? And Harry supposedly got the Firebolt earlier in the book, using it to help Griffindor win the House Cup. Owel, they prolly got tired of showing Qidditch. I mean, while the quick flying looks neat, it doesn't hide the fact that the game makes no sense!

Anyways, it sounds like the books give some additional and interesting perspective, so I've decided to go and actually read them. Hey, I read! Even books without pictures! I mean,

isabel79 and the mother of my godson used to always have their faces buried in novels when we were kids. So its somewhat genetic! TV hasn't reduced my brain to that much mush!