emmagrant01 | The next time I post here, I'll have seen it.

In a little over three hours, I'm meeting

stargategirl82 for a pre-movie drink, and then we're going to get in line to see Deathly Hallows at midnight. I'm beyond excited -- I'm feeling queasy! There are so many things I'm looking forward to. I've remained relatively unspoiled, and I look forward to being surprised as well. I've been saving all the cool behind-the-scenes stuff for after seeing it, because that just seemed more appropriate somehow.

I know the "popular" fandom opinion is not to care about the movies, because this story is about the books. I know there are plenty of people out there who will see the movie and post lengthy criticisms of it because it's not ever going to live up to the book for them. And there are people in this fandom who are rolling their eyes at all the excitement over this movie, who will say they just don't care.

But you know what? I care. I so flipping CARE. I came to this fandom because of the movies. I saw the first one and loved it and decided that maybe I would give these kids' books a try after all. I didn't actually start reading them until after the second movie, right before OOTP was released, but I had already started reading fanfic before I ever read the books, just because I enjoyed the movies that much. (Harry/Ron led very quickly to Harry/Draco, of course.) And when July 21, 2007 rolled around and I closed the book (after ripping out the Epilogue), I fucking CLUNG to the fact that there were a few more movies left. It was something to look forward to in this fandom that had come to mean so, so much to me.

So yeah, I love the DH movies. I love that they're interpretations of the books, that they condense the stories and add twists that weren't in canon. (I didn't actually like the book of OOTP very much until I saw the movie version -- after that I could read it without wanting to strangle Harry.) I love that some of the characters (like Draco and Snape) were softened considerably for the films, and I've personally enjoyed the fanfic that has resulted directly from that. I love that the movies are NOT the books and that they add to the HP universe anyway. I love them for many of the same reasons that I love fanfic and fanart.

So I know I'm going to love this movie tonight. I'm going to love every minute of it. I'm going to be full of squee and sleep-deprived when I see it again tomorrow with

pennswoods,

charlotteschaos, and

phaballa (why yes, it is indeed a

slashcast/

snapecast movie watching meet-up!), and I know I'll cry just as hard the second time. Maybe more.

And I'm probably going to skip the posts hating on it, because this movie is going to be LOVE for me. Pure love. ♥