dont you just HATE people who think their Harry Potter fans just because they've seen the movie? and ONLY seen the movie? you hate all those people's guts SOOOOO bad! when ever i mention hp then someone says "oh yhea! i LOOOVE harry potter! those movies were great!" i just get sooooo pissed! then i like, tell them off so bad. i mean, i just get REALLY steamed at people like that. they think they know everything about hp just because they spent $75 to stare at dan radcliffe's blue(not green, that gets me p.o.ed to) eyes for 10 hours stright. Grrrrrrrr.....

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a copple more things i get REALLY steamed about in the hp movies besides the ppls who, well, look up^^^:
the casting! i cannot BELIVE how badly they cast harry! i mean, dan has BROWN hair, and BLUE eyes! ARRRGGGHH!! also, the first two movies were, o.k., but the third one, man. i cried after i saw that. well, i WOULD have if my eyes hadnt gottne totaly fried. i mean, what was with all that flashing? i seriously want to THROTTLE arfonso! seriously, it seemed like he preaty much just had his assistnat give him a 2 sentnece summary of the book rather than evan look at the cover! really, this isnt the kind of bookmovie where you can be all "creative" as a director and mangle the story to bits! this really means alot to alot of people. i'm disapointed that Jo didnt stick up for her manuscript more.

Well we all have our diffferent opinions. My friends like HP, but they only read the books and watch the movies. I still classify them as HP fans.

well, T.F.L., if they read the books, and liked the books, i too would classify them as a HP fan, and if they saw/liked/didnt like the movies is irrelavent. the only thing that materes is if they liked the books. now if they read the books, saw the movies, didnt like the books, liked the movies, then i'd classify them as a person who like the movies, but i would still be civil to them. my deffaniton of a hp fan is someone who liked the books. the reason i despise people who call themselves fans just because they liked the movies is because the dont know what harrypotter really is. you just cant get from the movies what the books give you.

I really HATE it when people are against Harry Potter, and they havent even read the books!!!!!
I have these friends who's mum wont let them watch/read harry potter because she says "It's full of witchcraft"
But then they go and watch Lord of the Rings!!!!
Something is not adding up!!

I totally agree. My friends do that (watch the movies and think they know di ck all about HP) and it drives me off the wall!! I seriously think that the movies have got NOTHING compared to the books. I wasn't really obsessed about the first two movies in the first place, but the third one was a totally different calabur of SUCK! (however i will admit that I do love Rupert Grint cause he's an absolutely BRILLIANT Ron) I honestly believe that if you haven't read the books you don't even have a right to be TALKING about specific details about HP.

P.S i'm new so don't go totally rank on me for not being a huge HP movie fan

I agree with you as well. i have friends who are just like that. I makes be go bonkers.

sure people are going to act like that. its their lose if they'd rather watch the movies then accually read the book. but you can't really blame some people. have you thought that maby some people don't really anjoy reading??? probably the only reason i ever picked up a harry potter book was because my friend told me how cool it was. the first book really bored me. so i quit a little before i was half way though. then i saw the movie. i loved it! and thats what made me want to read all of the harry potter books. but i guess that would be pretty anoying.......

veelachick, you're soo right! now, i do have a friend who's never read the books, but seen the movies, but she dosent act like she has memorized the entire series. i concider her a good person to discuss the movies as movies with. and yes blondie, i know some people dont like to read, but if they dont then they shouldnt be calling the themselves a fan of a book , and a long one at that. i have another friend who is trying to finish GOF before the movie comes out, and i respect that, because i understand that HP can be a difficult read for people with short...oh! shiney object!*runs off to fallow shiney object* (tee hee)

I must say there is people like that who just because they hae seen the movies they know it all.

But then you get that with people who have read the books. If you dont come on forums and websites you dont know everything there is to know. Ok so the sites are made with info from the books. but there is other ways to look at it and if you dont come and talk about it you dont see the same things. It mad to think what i didnt know before coming on to the web for hp info.

I agree with Oliver, there shouldn’t be any snobbery on either side of the Harry Potter Fandom.
I love the books but at the same time know very little about the movies. So generally speaking I don't really contribute to the Movie section of the Veritaserum Forum at all, while sticking to book discussions and lounge.

I love the books and would most definitely urge anyone to read them (generally with little effect), whether they like the movies or not, but ultimately its there own prerogative whether they do or not.

But I still would never assume that I’m 'more' of a Harry Potter fan or have more right to contribute to the Harry Potter Fandom than a person who watches the movies.

There’s definitely enough room with in the vast array of Harry Potter Fandom on the Web (and with in Veritaserum to comfortably accommodate all Harry Potter Fans whether they like the books, the movies or both.

I agree that you can be a fan either way...but to say that you are an expert on HP just because you've seen the movies is shooting it. Granted you don't have to love both (god knows i don't) but there is a limit to how much you can say you know. I guess my point is that i'm a fanatic beleiver that you haven't EXPERIENCED HP until you've read it

what annoys me even more.. people who're always nagging at harry potter, keep saying it s childish rubbish.. but as sson as a book comes out, they have read it all!

lol, it means "Wordy"...

Okay, okay... that's enough. Please get back on topic now.

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yhea, i did. it was that mods that put the "discuss you pet peeves here" sub title. not me. so, to awanser your question, no. just for the "how do i hate those who didnt read the books but call themselves fans, let me count the ways..." lol

yep, i guess you're right ashleigh07. it wouldnt leave much to disscuss in the other examples that you mentioned . yhea, jess, i REALLY hate dumb rules that some(not veritaserum, just covering my butt here) sites put up. i used to got to a site called neopets ALOT but they turned into a mercendice empire. the money was more important than the site, then they started makeing tons of stupid rules, like you couldnt type www.othersitenameherethatwasnotneopets.com on chat, pms, or webpages. not evan sitename.com! if you wanted to like say you really like homestarrunner or something, you'd have to write:

yhea, i dont mind too much when i dont have anywhere to be, but if i do, i get REALLY anoyed. did you do neopets?

yhea, as i said, i'm at my aunt's and she has DSL, so i'm like in hevean right now! lol. opps! we're getting off topic again. *blushes*

...cough cough, yeah...

I can’t really think of any pet peeves… I guess really as I said before ‘stupid rules’ and 'slow walkers'.
oh I do get really annoyed when people tap their pens in class, pretending that the desk is a drum kit, gah I end up grabbing their pens off them and throwing them across the room, its so annoying, but saying that, I’ve found myself tapping my pen in really boring classers… but it still annoys me!
M.C

boy am i glad i dont have classes with you! lol. i do that alot. OH! another pet pevee is the the little comercial thing before the music vedios on yahoo. and you cant evan fast forward though them! Grrr... SO anoying!! lol. i'm watching them on this pc. i have GOT to get DSL!! lol. well, i just got hooked on bowling for soup. they are SO good!! 'almost' ROCKS!!!

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That’s mean about the little old lady on the bus, there again ‘first come first served’. I guess if she looked it a lot of pain I’d let her sit down…maybe.

yes, i know, but it did have something to do with the post i was doing, and i didnt make a whole new post for it! lol. tut tut. you know better then to say 'jk' here! lol you really only can say lol or lmao. about the little old lady on the bus.. i live, like in in little mexico, this street called monument boulevard. is crawling with latinos, and there are TONS of them on the bus all the time, so if it was where is was, she proabably wouldnt evan be able to get on.

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that soulds REALLY anoying! i have a tree right next to my window that smacks against my window when it's really windy. it really freaks me out when i'm like sleeping then thing huge BANG wakes me up.

yay! a pet peeves board!

okay, numero uno: LIARS!!! i can understand once in a while, sure, people tell little white lies or can't keep thier promises or whatever. but don't you just hate it when somebody lies every single day about the STUPIDEST things!?!?!?!?!? there's this girl in my school (who shall remain nameless) who does this and it really makes me sooo....grr...

2. that crinkling noise that sometimes books make when you turn the page i know its weird but the sound just makes me cringe

3. velcro, another sound that makes me cringe

Do I hate them? Not all of them, but I don't like those who makes theories based on the movies like some people who's supporting the Ron/Hermione theory, they give evidence from the movie, not the book, that ticks me off a bit...
My sisters don't have anything to do with hp and they come in the common room to chat. It gets annoying time after time. There should be a rule that allows ONLY Hp fans who are true hp fans to come and chat. I wouldn't be so badgered if they didn't get me banned every other month or so, and I wouldn't mind much if they only just stop bugging in on the hp discussions, kicking me off, and come on, seriously, I just don't like them for that.. other than that, most hp movie veiwers are okay, but they aren't real hp fans, but they are fans.

I don't consider people who have just watched the movie HP fans, but only a couple of mates have just seen the movies, and they don't think either. they just say, 'won't say i'm a fan as i haven't read the books, although i love the films' so that's cool.

And avrilluver, what you said in the beginning, I agree with you, i'm no fan of Daniel Radcliffe, i don't think he's that great at acting, i mean, how many kids wanted to be Harry? Loads i bet, they could have found someone with a bit more talent, and who looks like Harry, although to his credit he is getting better sorry if i annoyed any Dan fan's but it's what i think. the rest of the cast are fab though. But what you said sabout the third movie.

PoA movie Rocked! it was by far the best movie of the three. I want to kiss alfonso on the lips, I will love him forever! The first two were ok, as far as movie adoptations go but were pretty cheesy i must say. But PoA, Me and all my mates came out of the cinema flaberghasted and the immenseness of it! It was so dark and so good!!!! and Gary Oldman. *druels slightly* as well as david Thewlis, who is a fantastic actor, also Alan Rickman. It was those guys who made that film

I was really nervous because of the first two and PoA is my favourite book, and i was not disapointed. Wow! I've seen it a fair few times now as i have it on DVD and it still gives me goosebumps. In fact it's one of my favourite films ever, better than return of the king which was Too long! Sorry.

As you seem to be on the topic

And as people who lie? Grrrrr! Also people who stop talking to mates because of guys. Ummmm what? A girl i know, isn't talking to a mate of mine because my mate went out with this guy this other girl fancies. They're no even that close. And today she wacked my mate of the head! for like no reason! crazy, so i glared at her. Grrrrr!

Oh so that's what you mean! I was thinking who couldn't have liked that movie.

yeah in relation to the book it wasn't that great. I didn't get him seeing Pettigrew on the map, i mean huh? But that was the only thing taht bugged and confused me.

But when i went to see it i tried to seperate it from the books, because i know i'll just end up getting disappointed. Also they have to switch some thing around because of time, and they're only based on the books i supose.

ygaraine

yhea, its sad but that's what these people have turned it into. i mean, now a good comparason would be, like: there are about a million romeo and juliet movies, right? but they are all really different from the play, and no where near as good, i mean, just immagine the differences between that! what we are having to endure is worse than a bunch of shakespear buffs watching a rom+juli film festiavel!

about the looking at it out of context as just a movie; as i said, weather it was your favorite as just a movie really depends on your taste in movies. i personaly didnt like it much, evan just as a film on it's own, but mhe, i can understand someone who would.

Two words... Anger Managment. Joking!

No, really I agree with you guys. You cannot call yourself an HP fan if you have only seen the movies. Its like cheating. You just don't do it.

When I bought GoF when it first came out, the person who checked us said that she hadn't read any of them, but was going to start with the 4th one and go backwards.

I just gave her a weird look, she had a couple of loose screws if you ask me.

DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED! ok.....what!? oh man....i can't go through this again.....if you want to know my opinion on POA just go to the topic that talks about it (i don't know how to link so can't help you there) but it's all there....and i have very strong opinions so sorry if i offend anyone.

she was going to try to read it BACKWARDS? oh man, that would just be too confusing... it would ruin alot of it for you too.