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I've not yet seen HBP, however, I've just learned the following: Apparently Snape's presence in the sectumsempra scene is almost nonexistent and the "Don't call me a coward" line has been cut. These are, arguably, two of the most critical moments of Snape's characterization in the series and the "Don't call me a coward" thing was intrinsic to everything the books claimed (and ultimately weren't) about. I've never been one to get very cranky about the book/movie differences, but this is a big blow for me.

In my ongoing processing of Torchwood: Children of Earth, I'd like to note the following two petty things: wow, I could listen to Voltaire's Come Sweet Death over and over and over again. It's been my morbid cheer me up song since CoE. Meanwhile, any day now, my tailor will write to tell me my shirts and new suit are done and she's shipping them out. And then a big box will show up at my office containing a three-piece pin-stripe suit. If you're going to wager I'm not going to cry when I open that up (even though my ordering it had nothing to do with Torchwood beyond Ianto Jones has good dress sense), you might as well just burn your money.

We're going to Boston tomorrow and I'm behind on EVERYTHING. More later.

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The tragedy of the Marauders' generation is that these were young men -- men my age at the end of the series, and it's just lost in the casting and script choices.

Yes. This.

The casting of the older actors as these comparatively young characters has always bothered me, right from that first photograph of James and Lily. It makes the first war feel much farther away, when in reality the time span is less than Harry's age. Some of these wounds should still be fresh, or should at least re-open easier.