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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  
  

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Spatula Clarke
16:23 / 01.02.07
My saracasm detector circuits assplode now.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:32 / 01.02.07
Just wait until somebody pops up to point out that the picture of naked Daniel Radcliffe is not in fact from Order of the Phoenix, but from the promotion of Equus.
 
 
grant
19:15 / 01.02.07
I prefer now to read the text as an uninterrupted whole.

These divisions -- Phoenix and Equus -- are merely section headings, separated by an unjust act of violence. The reader's duty is to repair this unnatural damage.


The only thing l know for sure, is this:
a horse's head is finally unknowable to me.

Yet I handle children's heads, which I
presume to be more complicated... at least
in the area of my chief concern.

In a way, it has nothing to do with this boy.

The doubts have been there for years, piling
up steadily in this dreary place....
 
 
grant
19:43 / 01.02.07


- On a beach.

- What?

- Where I first saw a horse.

- How old were you?

- How should I know? Six.

- What were you doing there?



- Nothing. Digging.

- Sandcastles?

- Well, what else?




- Go on.

- That's a terrific castle.



It must've taken a long time to build.

You can stroke him if you like.
He won't mind.

  
 
H3ct0r L1m4
15:03 / 02.02.07
"hey, Harry, the horse is enjoying looking at us"
 
 
Feverfew
17:50 / 02.02.07
grant, you worry me, sometimes, you really do.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
14:01 / 03.02.07
Of course, Harry has history with horses and men, simultaneously and in a no-clothes context.

This is written with (for Potterworld) a strongly sexual emphasis. Wonder how Firenze will be fleshed out in the film? Doesn't the puritan bean-counter, Umbridge, extirpate Firenze and his emblematic sexual presence from Hogwarts?

The centaurs in previous films have been, frankly, crap. Certainly not equine shaggamuffins.
 
 
grant
14:54 / 05.02.07
He's a teacher in this next one, isn't he? Firenze. Replaces the divination teacher... or is that something they've written out of the films?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:05 / 05.02.07
That's what I remember, grant, and that Rowling describes the frisson of excitement that his teenage female pupils get from having a horse to teach them. I'm sure that's there in the text and not just me fantasising. Interesting riff on the theme of teenage girls and the horse-mad phase many go through. Previous filmic centaurs haven't been exactly a marriage of Orlando Bloom and My Little Pony but uninspiring CGI beasties. They made a better fist of it in Chronicles of Narnia, I think.

I'm just hoping for a sexier realisation of Rowling's Stud-u-Like this time around.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
14:44 / 06.02.07
Ponies are a bit sexual, aren't they?
 
 
Jack Fear
14:56 / 06.02.07
Also, this just in: Water "Wet," Say Scientists
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
14:58 / 06.02.07
I deserved that.
 
 
grant
17:48 / 06.02.07
News almost exactly one year old, but they have cast a centaur who's not in the book.

Another centaur, Bane, will be played by Jason Piper.

from here.

-----------
And lest we forget...

  
 
Mourne Kransky
18:05 / 06.02.07
Jason Piper! The Black Swan in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake! He made me cry. He turned me on. Things are looking up on the centaur front!

And Jason's experienced at acting animal.
 
 
grant
00:42 / 07.02.07
Photos of Bourne's Swan Lake here: tanphotos.co.uk and jasonpiper.com.

I think you just scooped the rabid Potter fans at Veritaserum.com, Xoc.

Hmm. If it's a dancer, I *think* that means it's unlikely to be a voice-over role for an all-CGI beast. Which means these are going to be much better beasts.

Good beasts. Noble beasts.

Divine beasts.
 
 
Quantum
13:58 / 07.02.07
Sexy beasts...
 
 
Jack Fear
23:57 / 07.02.07
Into centaurs?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:50 / 09.02.07
(attempts to suppress gag reflex)
 
 
Jack Fear
19:47 / 09.02.07
Species-ist.
 
 
Quantum
18:12 / 16.02.07
"Ten points from house Enumclaw!"
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:39 / 16.02.07
*groan*

Go get your coat.
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
20:30 / 16.02.07
Best caption wins a no-prize. Ready. Set. Go!



Levioso Wingardium*

*or, however you spell it.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
20:35 / 16.02.07
Why no picture show up?
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
20:54 / 16.02.07
hrm...it was a second ago. Damn.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
20:55 / 16.02.07
I see it. And now I can never unsee it.
 
 
Quantum
12:41 / 17.02.07
Radcliffe's made a real horse's ass out of himself...
 
 
Mistoffelees
09:35 / 23.02.07
To make Kali happy:

NSFW
Click at your own risk, reactions like the above might follow!
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
19:40 / 24.02.07
So many conflicting feelings....

Disbelief.

Horror.

Strange titillation.

Disbelief, again.

Cautious arousal.

Disbelief, once more.

Horror.

Curiosity.

Disbelief, yet again.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
00:02 / 25.02.07
I'm opening a sweepstake on what is going to turn out to be too challenging for Barbelith to focus on next. We're pretty much down to "drooling" and "grunting", so there's no better time to play.
 
 
Just Add Water
00:08 / 25.02.07
Disbelief is about right, that's clearly a photoshop job.

(Watch the original photo on the previous page, and compare the angle of his left thigh, for example. Also, there's some blurring and a vague seam where the two images are joined)
 
 
Just Add Water
00:14 / 25.02.07
Just to clarify: My above comment was about the NFSW picture.

The one further up on this page, the ass one, looks fake as well. That's one weird tan line.
 
 
Just Add Water
18:19 / 25.02.07
Semi-unrelated:

  
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
16:31 / 26.02.07
Despite my unhealthy interest in Daniel Radcliffe, I was telling a mate about that photo, saying, "I was okay with looking at him shirtless, but I definitely did not want to see his junk."

At least it's faux-junk, thank criminy.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:38 / 26.02.07
It could be the junk of somebody even younger, though, Kali.

HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:41 / 27.02.07
Still registers in the creepy zone for me.
 
  

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