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Screw-ups Non-HP fans tend to make
MonieLou
post Jul 30 2008, 08:42 PM
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Tonight I went over to my grandma's house for dinner with my sister. Towards the end of a conversation, we got to talking about the Harry Potter movies. My grandma said, "I know who Daniel Radcliffe is. He's Harry Potter. But I don't know who those other two are. Himmie and Roland?" Me and my sister could not stop laughing. "No Grandma. Ron and Hermione."

What non-HP screw ups have you had to endure? They can be character mix-ups, wrong names, simple confusion about plot points, or just plain ignorant remarks.


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post Aug 27 2008, 03:47 AM
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I worked at a hospital archive this Summer. We did a crossword on the break and started discussing Harry Potter and let's just say my colleague hasn't seen the movies many times. Apparently in the fifth movie Harry and some girl go into a cave to fight a dragon. thumbup.gif I think she mixed up the second and the fourth movie and then combined them into the fifth. She didn't claim to know anything about Harry Potter though, so it was just funny.

Don't you just hate having to explain movie plots? I never know what to say.

One thing that bugs me is when people pronounce the English names in Swedish. There are like 3 different pronounciations of everything. Not their fault, everyone isn't good at English, but sometimes it gets so bad we don't even get which character the other person means. Or I'm talking about a character and they're going "Who? Oh, you pronounce it like that..." lol.gif

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