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[snowystingray]

I finally finally dyed my hair today. And, amazingly, I'm quite satisfied with the results. It's kind of a dark auburn, depending on the lighting. I would have done it sooner, but it took me FOREVER to find temporary dye. I ended up using the kind that's supposed to be for old people to cover gray hair, but it actually worked quite nicely.

I've been getting way back into my old HP fangirl ways lately. I spent a few hours last night reading GoF, and the better part of this morning watching the CoS DVD. I had gone through most of the extra features before, but there were a few of them that I hadn't looked through yet so I was going through them along with my mom. She is now quite convinced that I'm the biggest loser on the planet, but it's all good.

And, okay, a few questions regarding Harry Potter:

1. Am I the only person who gets a huge kick out of watching CoS right after PS/SS? The difference in Harry's voice cracks me up so much.

2. Before the movie (or still, if you haven't changed your opinion after watching it), did you imagine the sorting hat as male or female? My sister and I were discussing this because the both of us had always thought of it as a woman, and I was wondering if anyone else had done the same thing as us.

Comments

[srcastikangel.livejournal.com]

I'd always thought of the Sorting Hat as a male, never a female. But the appearance of the hat in the movie was different that I imagined it. I thought of if as more scruffy, with patches, and every time I see the movie I think the characters are talking out loud to the hat. But that's just me.

the mad hatter...taha

[rachelauren13.livejournal.com]

I always thought of the hat as male and like erin, all scruffy...The movie made it look brand spanking new and shiny and it appeared everyone could hear both the people and hat's inner thoughts **oooohh mystical** and that wasn't right.. ahh well...
Rache

Re: the mad hatter...taha

[snowystingray.livejournal.com]

I think the movie did a good enough job with the scruffiness, but I still was a little weirded out by the gender issues. I think because they left out the song it played out much better as a male role, and the film also made the hat a lot...is harsher the word I'm looking for? I guess in the book the hat sort of contemplates more, and waits for the wearer's reaction, whearas the movie hat seems more of a dictator as to the student's end. Well, I guess the whole point of the hat is to dictate, but in the book is was more of a gentle persuasion than a firm recommendation. Actually, a lot of the lines in the movie are exactly the same as the ones in the book, so it really has more to do with delivery than anything. I can buy the movie one as male, but I have a hard time seeing the canon hat as anything but female. And that was an entirely too long post to discuss the gender of a talking hat.

[crazygrltalkin1.livejournal.com]

Those two weirdos forgot to freak out about you finally dying your hair! Auburn sounds cool! I'm still not dying my hair.. no way will I ever get rid of the blonde.
~Lars

[snowystingray.livejournal.com]

If I were you, I would totally buy into the Gwen Stefani look. Pink equals majorly cool.