Harry Potter

[anotherusedpage]

So, I saw the movie and it rocked. All the bits I was worried about sucking didn't. Which was nice. I'd post a proper review except its three in the morning, so I'll just leave you with three short thoughts.

1) My inner feminist says, 'was Fleur that useless in the book? Why did the only girl in the tournament finish last in every competition? Yah boo sucks'

2) My inner fangirl (well, mebbe not so inner) says EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SLASH SQUEEEEEE!

3) My footballslash brain says, hmmmm. If you had to feild an England Quidditch Team with the players taken from the England football squad, who'd play what positions? Should strikers play seekers or chasers? (Unless they're Wayne Rooney, when they should clearly play beaters). Also, I wonder if Denis Bergkamp would be scared of flying on a broom...

Answers on a postcard.

Comments

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

unless it is necessary for the plot that she be female

Yeah, me and opportunemoment went through the plot trying to work out the changes she'd have had to have made in order for Fleur not to look so damn crap, but every change we made wrecked the plot (Cedric being female, Fleur being male, Fleur and Krum swapping roles...)

At least in the film you can pretend she aced her dragon-fight. Although having said that, she was even shitter in the maze than she was in canon.

and at the world cup

Ah, I had a rant about the World Cup Quidditch Teams a few years back (how come it's ok to have girls on the amateur school team but there aren't any on the professional teams, damnit!) and it was pointed out to me that other than the two seekers, the genders of none of the world cup players are confirmed. They are reffered to by surname only, and never by pronoun. You can split them male/female as you like in book canon, it's possible the only two men on the pitch were Krum and the other seeker...

[shreena.livejournal.com]

Is there any particular reason why she has to come last in all three tasks? I don't think there is. She has to do badly in the water one so that Harry rescues Gabrielle because that's vaguely important for the plot, but she doesn't have to be last in the first one, she could beat at least one of the guys there, nor does she have to fail so quickly in the maze or do worse than Krum, altho' clearly she can't do better than either Cedric or Harry for the plot to work.

Hmm, for some reason, I thought it was mentioned that only the Irish team had women on it. I could be misremembering though. But, even when it comes to the amateur teams, there are fewer girls than boys, it's only the Gryffindor team that has a balance. My point tho' wasn't just that women are crap in the books, it's that there quite simply aren't that many - if you tottled up every named character in the book, the Wizarding world would end up being about 70:30 male:female which is just silly....

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

She has to come last in the third task, because Harry and Cedric have to win it, and it has to be Krum under the imperious curse so you think it's Karkaroff who's the bad guy, and he has to take someone out but it can't be Harry or Cedric, which only leaves Fleur. The only task she could possibly win would be the Dragon task...

[lucy-lupin.livejournal.com]

I think the Irish World Cup team has some women on it. I vaguely remember one of the Chasers being female. And there is one entirely female Quidditch team in canon, the Holyhead Harpies.