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Jul. 10th, 2007 12:25 amSo... Daniel Radcliffe was just on Jay Leno, and he is THE MOST ADORABLE THING EVER EVER EVER.
However, and this is no fault of Daniel's, all anyone seems to care about with regards to OotP is that Harry kisses a girl in this movie. (Because nothing else even remotely important or noteworthy happens to Harry in OotP. HELLO SIRIUS' DEATH. HELLO HARRY BEING THE CHOSEN ONE). Also, they're all ignoring the fact that Cho Chang is a DIRTY WHORE. (Which is not to say that Katie Leung isn't lovely and all, but if they make their relationship all romantic and leave out the bits where Cho is kind of mentally unbalanced because of Cedric's death, and she's jealous of Hermione, and she cries all the time, and then at the end Harry doesn't even want to see her anymore, much less kiss her again [and that he also doesn't like their kiss, cause she's CRYING during it] then I may have to kill whomever is responsible. If you make Cho a good girlfriend, I will hurt you. She is not.)
Jay: So, kissing a girl on screen must be almost as bad as being naked onstage.
Daniel: No. No, being naked is terrifying. (I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. I WANT TO HUG THE CUTE.)
Every bit of his interview was adorable. He was so cheerful, and even when he did something embarrassing he laughed about it along with the audience. GAH.
In other Harry Potter news, Daniel, Rupert, and Emma put their hand and foot prints outside the Chinese theater today, and they got to put wand-prints too. How awesome is that? Harry Potter is now officially set in stone. :)
However, on the same program where I saw that, they showed a clip from the movie. It was the scene where they find the room of requirement (and for some reason Neville discovered it, even though he wasn't even there when that happened...) But what was really bad was that Hermione explained, in detail, that the room only appeared to those who really needed it, and that whatever they needed would appear within it.
This is never actually stated so plainly in the book, it just sort of happens. Do they really think the audience is so thick that we need Hermione to explain everything to us? I had been wondering why her character seemed so much more annoying in the movies than in the books, and now I know. It's because she explains EVERYTHING. Her dialogue has taken the place of all subtlety and implications, and things the viewers should just be able to get without being explicitly told.
Also, how would Hermione know all that? The answer is that she wouldn't, she didn't in the book, and making her the end-all be-all authority on everything, including Hogwarts, which even Dumbledore claimed to not know all the secrets of, makes her very obnoxious. Yes, Hermione knows a lot, but she doesn't know everything (how to allow Harry to breathe underwater for instance). Occassionally she's even mistaken. Shocking I know, but it happens.
Wow, that turned out to be quite a long rant. Sorry about that, I didn't mean for it to be so long. I guess I'm just really fired up about this movie.