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Difficult Times for Harry, Good Times for Us

It's the nature of the entertainment industry, I suppose: excitement and anticipation about dramatic hardship of fictional characters. Is it wrong to be excited about the difficult times that lie ahead for Harry? Well, right or wrong, I am excited about the movies coming up this fall.

I got thinking about this because last night I went and saw Batman Begins at the new theatre in Tualatin and spotted the movie poster for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (based on book 4 of the series). This book plunges deeper into the more serious aspects of the story and its characters and I liked how this poster captured that mood. The movie will be in theatres in no time (this coming November). And with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe coming this fall as well (December 9), I'm looking forward to the holiday movie season this year. No post-Lord-of-the-Rings-depression here (although a extended-DVD marathon of all three movies is in order for the near future, I think). It's a good time to love the fantastical.

Links:

• The Official Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Website
• Official Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe Website

It's also a good time to get cracking on reading up on the series of both Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia, at the very least reading the books of the upcoming movies. Maybe I need to move farther away so that I would have more time on the train to read. =)

Happy blockbuster movie anticipating.