OOTP clip, narrated by ignorant asshat.

[emmagrant01]

This was linked to from The Leaky Cauldron, and it's hilarious because the reporter clearly does not know what the fuck she is talking about. She thinks Umbridge is about to stab the Trio in the Forbidden Forest scene (with her wand, perhaps?), and she thinks there is a Harry/Cho/Luna love triangle in the movie. o_0

I mean, come on. Surely someone involved in the production of this segment must have read the books? Apparently not. Haven't these people heard of research? Don't they know how popular these books are, and how stupid it makes them look when they get it so very wrong?

Spoilers for the film, obviously.

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[zully.livejournal.com]

Head to head with the sinister Snape? *headclutch* I don't even like Snape, but that made me "WTF."

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL, yes! I'm sure she's just reading what someone else wrote, but still. :-P

[zully.livejournal.com]

I mean, it's one thing to try to grab a crowd's attention. I was on board with the "LOVE IN THE AIR" bit given the brief attention Harry gave to flirting with Cho during OotP. She made it sound like a main focus, but that's what adverts do.

But... it became increasingly clear that she really had no idea what she was talking about when she mentioned Luna as a love rival. What? Did I miss a huge chunk of OotP? o_o There aren't even hints of that!

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that whole thing made me shake my head. The Luna/Harry/Cho thing was pretty bad, but the Umbridge about to stab Harry and Hermione was just the tops.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had to back it up and listen again. I was all, Did she just say stabbed?

[mom2enk.livejournal.com]

I had the same thoughts when I saw the clip. They could have spent a little bit of time doing some research, it just made her sound stupid.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It's just so hard for me to believe that could get through without at least one person who knows what's going on watching it, you know?

[mamainak.livejournal.com]

I was like...WTF?!?

Then I started to laugh...it's so sad how many incapable journalists are there.

I mean, in times when many people read the book, and it's all over in media, and you're JOURNALIST working in that same media and you report about popular culture...and not to know about it? Come on.

At least I saw sexy Snape in Occlumency class :p

[mamainak.livejournal.com]

Pardon, sexy Alan Rickman who makes Snape sexy. Snape is sexy only in fanfiction. :D

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It really is sad, isn't it? I remember watching the local news one night while a reporter was talking about the topics on the upcoming state high school exit exam. She was reading them off a piece of paper, and one was "the pith-a-gore-ian theorem". It took me a minute to figure out she'd meant the Pythagorean theorem. I was all 0_0.

But seriously, you'd think people would know Harry Potter better than they know middle school math. Maybe...

[mamainak.livejournal.com]

Yeah...
But one of the things that irritates me the most is this explosion of amateur journalist on TV. On commercial TV (especially on specific one) they are, like, picking up the girls from fashion shows and magazine covers. It's unbelievable!

Some awful voices, can't pronounce simple words correctly, not articulate at all, wrong accents, forget to breathe, they let some weird sounds from their noses and sound like they're going to choke from the tempo of their talking! Also, I've seen lots of reports and interviews that have wrong information, they didn't do research about person and then they go and ask some serious questions that are totally outdated or misplaced and EVERYONE (except her/him) knows what happened and when.

But it doesn't matter, as long as they can wear sponsor clothes from companies that produce miniature sizes and they attract male audience.
Actually I don't care if they are toothpick size as long as they do their job properly (yeah, I know, influence on kids, but that's another topic...) and they know what they are doing.
Even the most talented ones have to go through some course or training. This ones only get tight shirts and few layers of make-up and producers are keeping fingers crossed that people will be so bedazzled by looking at them that they won't notice mistakes.

Ok, it's so transparent that is not worthy discussing Why? and How? because it's obvious.

Just a little rant. It crossed my mind. I'm done.

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

[mamainak.livejournal.com]

*lol* It started...

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL!! FTW, seriously. :-D

[winnett.livejournal.com]

At least it looks like they have the Floo working better than in Goblet with Sirius' face part of the glowing coals. Blah.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Was that in the clip? I guess I was distracted, heh.

[winnett.livejournal.com]

It looked like in the end someone was Flooing with a green glow. So yep, it's in there. Or I could be hallucinating (checks tea for signs of tampering)

[trague.livejournal.com]

LOL! LOL! LOL!

[peppery-lime.livejournal.com]

~boggles~ how can anyone be that stupid??? I mean...even if they didn't personally know, you'd htink they would look into it just to make sure that they didn't make themselves look stupid. ~beats head on desk~

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It's hard to believe the quality controls on their segments are that bad. Then again, it is a tabloid show...

[peppery-lime.livejournal.com]

eh...or possibly a publicity thing to get us all talking about it and non-book readers to go and see the movie to see what the fuss is all about...

[mamainak.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm European so I find it a bit irritating how she pronounces Harry's name...Herry Patter. heh

But that's the least of her worries.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how you would pronounce it, then! ;-)

[mamainak.livejournal.com]

Well, Harry would be more with 'a' than with 'e' (as in Herry) and Potter is with 'o' not 'a' (as in Patter. At least that's how British English pronunciation sounds to me. *shrugs*

But, I'm not native english speaker, so I'm not the one to judge.:D

American English and British English have different pronunciations in some things. British just sounds right, because Harry Potter is character from British English literature so I'm used to it and on the way they pronounce it.

BTW, I love that icon!! ♥

[mnamanarayana.livejournal.com]

The name Harry does sound funny in the video because you get the lady saying it several times and then someone saying it with an English accent. You can hear them closest together at about 53 seconds followed by 49 seconds on the countdown clock. The announcer is saying a word that sounds like "hairy" to British speakers. English people say the "a" in "harry" the same as "a" in "hat".

Wait, I withdraw that. It could lead to one of those wankfests where I learn that of 656 commenters, 653 of them pronounce the "a" in "hat" differently from each other but most especially from me, and anyway courgette is the word for zucchini etc etc etc. And we don't want that again, do we?

Anyway, Emma, if you listen to it again, I'm sure you'll hear the difference.

[mamainak.livejournal.com]

Wait, I thought 'hat' is pronounced as 'het' ('a' like in 'cat')? *lol*

Oh, no, 'a' in 'hat' and 'Harry' is the one that is between 'a' and 'e', 'ae'.

Ok, English language confuses me. :D

[mnamanarayana.livejournal.com]

LOL. Well, *Lucius* would say "hat" like "het". And if he didn't live in a manor he'd live in a "hice". I love Lucius' OTT RP . . .

[allika.livejournal.com]

In "American" we tend to see an A as indicating an "ay" or "hat" sound, and an O as an "ah" or "uh" sound. We see the Harry as an "air" sound.
I think the only difference between the British and American "Potter" is a greater emphasis on the "ah" sound in "British English."
(Am I quotation happy, or what?) :)

[kerryblaze.livejournal.com]

I saw that clip right before I ran out the door! The stab comment had me laughing! It always makes me think of this reporter in a Philadelphia paper who did a review of the movie Candyman and he wrote (in great length) about the ex-Miss America Vanessa Williams and how she was a good actress and he was glad to see her making a come back, though he thought appearing in a horror movie was a cliché. It was so not THAT Vanessa Williams! She doesn't even remotely look like the other Vanessa Williams! He claimed to have seen the movie, but I didn't believe him. lol

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL! It's funny/scary how little checking these people do before they put stuff on the air. It just goes to show you that you should take it all with a grain of salt. :-P

[mizbean.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there was an anchorman on the local Chicago news who said, "It's the return of everyone's favorite geek wizard" while doing a voice over promoting the GoF movie.

Harry Potter is NOT a GEEK. NOT everyone who wears GLASSES is a GEEK! Gah.

You know, I've worked in media on and off for the past 15 years, and I'd say the HP books are well known, and even avidly discussed. There is a segment, however, who only regard the them only as lucrative children's books, and then there are those who are just plain stupid.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I'm convinced that many of the people who do these segments base their entire reports on the video clips they're showing and nothing more. I mean, I suppose you could draw those particular conclusions if all you had was that video. But still, it's horribly unprofessional to put out such bad, inaccurate shit and call it journalism.

And yeah, what is it with the geek thing? Again, someone who clearly hasn't read the books.

[jamoche]

Maybe they did their research the way the London Sunday Times did with the Lord of the Rings movie - apparently they used the first hit they found, which was a trap for people expecting to have their homework done for them.

[photograficnerd.livejournal.com]

MUST they make it out to be some kind of romance battle? GOD. And really, they're wizards and witches. They don't need to stab anyone. D:

Who hired this bitch anyway?

[joesther.livejournal.com]

The stabbing thing cracked me upand gave me a WTF? Seriously. Don't they have fact checkers on shows like these, at the very least??

Speechless. Which is what this airhead should have been. :P

[libgirl.livejournal.com]

What a complete idiot--really!

The whole Luna/Harry/Cho thing was funny enough--but the Umbridge stabbing them in the Forest is even worse!

And, it looked in the Harry/Snape leglimency/flashback scene like Voldemort was about to start breakdancing--poor editing on their part I think!

~squees~

Despite their ineptitude, I can't wait to see this movie!

[acromantular.livejournal.com]

Now I'm paranoid that they've actually screwed up the movie- what if they did try to insert a Harry/Cho/Luna love triangle?
*bangs head against wall*

Hopefully it's all just the idiot tabloid reporters, but...

[vfd88.livejournal.com]

I LOVED the Snape/Harry flashback/memories thing. Very cool.

[phoenixsong71.livejournal.com]

WTF?! I just don't know how to put into words how ridiculous that woman sounded. Even my 3 year old nephew knows that wands are for magic, not stabbing. When I showed him my Draco Malfoy wand for the first time, he picked it up out of the box and started swishing and flicking. Not once did he try to stab me with it. *facepalm*
The woman in the clip should be livid with the people who wrote the copy. They really made her look like an idiot on national tv.

[phoenixacid.livejournal.com]

*stabs with wand*

*Hmm.. the wand's blunt*

Heehee *dies laughing*

Now that Cho/Harry/Luna part is stupid as well. When the woman was describing the part when Snape taught Harry Occlumency, she made it sound like Snape's attacking him. I mean well, he is in a way, but... you get what I mean.

Next time, do research people.

[metal-dog5.livejournal.com]

Surely someone involved in the production of this segment must have read the books? Apparently not. Haven't these people heard of research?

You're working on the assumption the movies strictly follow the books, and we know that's not the case. Given that scenes have been altered in the previous movies, perhaps Umbridge is about to stab Harry with her wand ;) I'm grateful they didn't decide to report a love quadrangle made up of Harry/Hermione/Cho/Luna. Can you imagine the shipper wars that comment would have started?

I'm happy to get my Snape fix :D

[allika.livejournal.com]

Oh, this made me imagine a horrible eventuality. What if there are some Harry/Luna hints in the movie? I mean, it wouldn't be the first time the script writer took liberties with the book...Like that awkward handshake thing at the end of the CoS movie between Hermione and Ron...God, wouldn't that be the most terrible thing, a love triangle for the sake of drama...Goddamn you Hollywood! Hopefully, The Insider report writers are just really really dense.