COMPLETE OUTRAGE

[birdsofshore]

I got given Harry Potter trivia for my birthday, which is fab, and we've had a lot of fun with it.

BUT WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS?





(Sorry they're sideways, by the way - I'm on my phone and I can't work it out).

Mr Birds is laughing but I am OUTRAGED. Gregory Goyle? How dare they! It's because they had to change it in the blinking film, isn't it, because the actor playing Crabbe was in prison... but that doesn't meant that Goyle ACTUALLY DID IT! *head explodes*

Mr Birds is questioning the validity of valuing one fictional version of events over another fictional version of events. Bastard.

I KNEW YOU'D ALL UNDERSTAND. Come and writhe in anguish and irritation with me.

Comments

[torino10154]

Often when they have those online "quizzes", they use movie canon, too. Annoys the shit out of me. So, yes, anguish and irritation are justified. *nods*

(Is the game itself produced with permission from the movie company? I'd wager that would explain why they use that info.)

[capitu]

RAGE!!!!!! Fierce and all-consuming!!!!!!

*shakes fist like mad*

*looks up for appropriate icon*

See? Tiny Draco is Not Amused.

Also, tell Mr Birds:

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

Nah. That's legit, tho, it's BULLSHIT! That's the reason I won't buy the HP trivia. I want HP BOOK trivia, not the movies. When I get all ragey about how different the films are That Guy I Married tells me to calm my tits and I tell him, "Don't talk to me about calming my tits, you were all kinds of ragey at Lucas for continuing to fuck with the original Star Wars Trilogy."

He says that's another matter entirely. BAH.

[sp-owl.livejournal.com]

The BOOK! The book came first and that's what they should go by! *shares outrage*

[nearlyconscious.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yes, I'm so annoyed that they did this!! I usually have 99% of the answers right and when I don't, I'm like "hold up... really?" and have to go get my books because it doesn't sit right with me (I mean, their questions are ridiculously easy and when they're not, it's because they're unaccurate!)

[besamislabios]

How wrong and frustrating!! even if you knew all the books by heart you could still lose the game. :((

[subtlefire.livejournal.com]

MALARKEY!

[smallbrownfrog.livejournal.com]

It gets worse. Two of the answers are wrong. There's the Crabbe/Goyle mess up. I think that they should have either asked "In the movie..." or not have expected that answer.

The yellow question is also a mess. There are several people in the elevator with them, but Umbridge is not one of them. Umbridge is on level one, not in the elevator (though Harry and Hermione are technically in the elevator when they first see her).

[lightofdaye]

It does seem to be film based merchandise given the picture of DanRad there....

The yellow question bugs me more. They ran into so many people in that elevator...

[snowgall]

Oh I would be so upset too! I recall years and years ago that there was an error in one of the history questions in the original set of Trivial Pursuit cards I owned. I think it involved the names of the US presidents on Mt. Rushmore, and (IIRC) they gave *Franklin* Roosevelt as the answer and not Teddy! Horrors!

But this is almost worse, because with the Mt. Rushmore error there is no universe in which the card was correct, so you could easily prove it wrong if called on it. In this case, if you were trying to argue with someone who accepted movie canon, they would just think you were being pedantic, and you're not!

Outrage!

[lijahlover.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooo it's so wrong :(

We are stressed so to help calm down. Let us relax while looking at this beautiful posh pretty man petting a horse and smile....I feel better now. I hope you do LOL! I like capitu found my perfect icon to express my anger.

[digthewriter]

SMH

[groolover.livejournal.com]

*shudder* I absolutely share your outrage. Thank you for alerting us to the fact that NO-ONE SHOULD EVER BUY THAT GAME.

(I own the DVDs of all the HP films, but the one for DH2 is still in its wrapper. I've only seen that film once, in the cinema - I was so horrified at what they did to ruin THE MOST IMPORTANT SCENE IN ALL SEVEN BOOKS that I've never been able to bring myself to watch that film again. Maybe one day... but not yet. *shudders again*)

[khalulu]

Yeah, Goyle is important to my head canon too, because Crabbe turns on Draco at the end and Goyle doesn't, and Draco is dragging Goyle's Stupefied body up out of the flames and staying with him when Harry comes to rescue them from the Fiendfyre. It's Draco's moment of heroism-on-behalf-of-his-friend and the movie denies him that. (If he hadn't been trying to save Goyle, he might have found a spare broom just like Harry did, and been able to fly out on his own.) They should have just gotten another actor to play Crabbe, because conflating Crabbe and Goyle wasn't fair to Goyle or Draco.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

Wut. This will not do. :(

[fantasyfiend09.livejournal.com]

That IS outrageous! My genuine response was:

WHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTT?!?!?!?!?!?!

That is SO wrong. At the very least they should put both answers, but to put a fanwork like a film before canon is DIS-GRACE-FUL!! Ugh!!!

Get correction fluid and a pen and fix that shit. Then read the relevant chapter to Mr. Birds. ;)

[dracogotgame.livejournal.com]

Goyle? GOYLE?!!

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

Le gasp!

[star-sailor13.livejournal.com]

Two of my colleagues and I had a HP Trivial Pursuit night in the office a while back and we sat in the kitchen area drinking cider and playing this after hours - then we went to the pub. We too raged over the fact that it used exclusively movie!canon and got shit like this wrong. We gave points if we provided book!canon answers anyway and made sure to correct the cards as we went through.

Our next HP games night will involve some sort of weird mash-up of HP and Cluedo (no idea what it's called), which is going to be amazing.