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birdsofshoreThere's going to be a Harry Potter prequel play. A proper one, in the West End, with JKR co-producing and stuff. About the 'previously untold story of Harry Potter’s early years as an orphan and outcast’.
(sob, so no Draco, then.... OR WILL THERE BE??)
A little bit more info here if you don't mind the - yeuch - Daily Mail, sorry.
I am tentatively excited about this! But, I don't know, something about it leaves me slightly nervous. I think it's the 'orphan and outcast' bit. I'm imagining Annie or something, with lots of feelgood songs. O_o Let's hope I will be proved SO WRONG.
However, I REALLY like the look of the new UK HP art by Jim Kay. I never liked the UK book covers in the slightest, and I am jealous of the US illustrations, which I admire. The new UK editions will be fully illustrated *glee*.
Oh, pretty! Fresh, lovely colours and Harry is very charming with his clear eyes and mussed hair. The style of this one reminds me of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leochi, or is that just because it's watercolour?
Harry looks more sly and mischievous in the b/w drawing, however, I think this one is actually my favourite of the two:
Hogwarts looks utterly magical, but not in a cute and sparkly way. I would say it's gorgeously creepy with fairy-tale influences:
It's hard to draw many conclusions from these couple of pieces, but I'm hoping the illustrations are all going to have this slight edge to them. Either way I'm very happy we are getting a whole lot of new art, and yes, it'll be tempting to buy an entire new set...
I really like the quote where Jim Kay says "the commission of a lifetime" brought "an explosion of delight, followed instantly by an implosion of brain-freezing terror". :DDDDD
I have a feeling we are in safe hands with this one. <3
(sob, so no Draco, then.... OR WILL THERE BE??)
A little bit more info here if you don't mind the - yeuch - Daily Mail, sorry.
I am tentatively excited about this! But, I don't know, something about it leaves me slightly nervous. I think it's the 'orphan and outcast' bit. I'm imagining Annie or something, with lots of feelgood songs. O_o Let's hope I will be proved SO WRONG.
However, I REALLY like the look of the new UK HP art by Jim Kay. I never liked the UK book covers in the slightest, and I am jealous of the US illustrations, which I admire. The new UK editions will be fully illustrated *glee*.
Oh, pretty! Fresh, lovely colours and Harry is very charming with his clear eyes and mussed hair. The style of this one reminds me of
leochi, or is that just because it's watercolour?Harry looks more sly and mischievous in the b/w drawing, however, I think this one is actually my favourite of the two:
Hogwarts looks utterly magical, but not in a cute and sparkly way. I would say it's gorgeously creepy with fairy-tale influences:
It's hard to draw many conclusions from these couple of pieces, but I'm hoping the illustrations are all going to have this slight edge to them. Either way I'm very happy we are getting a whole lot of new art, and yes, it'll be tempting to buy an entire new set...
I really like the quote where Jim Kay says "the commission of a lifetime" brought "an explosion of delight, followed instantly by an implosion of brain-freezing terror". :DDDDD
I have a feeling we are in safe hands with this one. <3
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Date: 2013-12-20 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-20 09:00 pm (UTC)Whoa these are so cool!!!! Harry looks adorable!
And LOL at orphan Annie. Please God let it be nothing like that. HAHA
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Date: 2013-12-20 09:02 pm (UTC)It's funny that you favor the American illustrations, I know a lot of people over here really dislike Grandpre's art, I'm among them.
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Date: 2013-12-20 09:11 pm (UTC)All Yay!!! also Yes I'm not the only one!!!
Date: 2013-12-20 09:16 pm (UTC)It's been all over the fandom since yesterday and the general consensus is "Harry story pre-hogwarts? YAWN, BORIIIING" or "I like the A Very Potter Musical better" *headdesk*
both of them make me soooo mad. this is brand new, there no production stuff yet and everyone is just hating it on without waiting to see how it goes first.
(and the "I like the very potter musical better" is making me so mad because that was a PARODY, a parody from fans that love the material, and with somewhat catchy songs and occasionally heartfelt moments but still A PARODY! from a group of college students who did it for fun! this would have rowling approval and be done by award winning producers!)
even someone from the hp cast is hating on it! (it's a reallly really minor actor- the guy who played 1st year sirius in snape's memory flashback but Still! you worked in the Movies! from rowling's book! because it's Her work! why are you hating on this?! )
:(
on the other hand everyone is loving the hp illustrations, me included! and i'm SO excited to get the illustrated books when they come out (I admit I would like if the illustrations be done by rowling herself- who can draw really well too:
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/ed/a4/cabed250fca0c4c3a1b14010.L.jpg
but Jim Kay's illustrations are still pretty awesome- so not complaining.
(can't wait to see how he draw Hermione, and McGonagall and Dumbledore, and Neville!! and... Sirius! & Lupin!! :D)
the castle kind of freaks me out a little because giant fish monsters, what?
Yay Potter! (I'm also going to go to Scotland & Wales next summer and I'm SO excited!! :D
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Date: 2013-12-20 09:17 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, I will be busy flailing about those illustrations because omg that matches my headcanon of how Harry looks EXACTLY. That nose. Oh my gosh that nose. That is exactly how I have always pictured his nose. I'm about thisclose to shrieking aloud with glee, but I'm in a hotel room with fairly thin walls, as my neighbors were kind enough to demonstrate this morning, er, rather enthusiastically.
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Date: 2013-12-20 09:22 pm (UTC)Dracothe other characters and things like the beasts? It's like getting a whole lot of really wonderful fanart!no subject
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Date: 2013-12-20 09:28 pm (UTC)Perhaps your neighbours Christmas celebrations can inspire some plot bunnies? :D
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Date: 2013-12-20 09:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-12-20 09:35 pm (UTC)And even the content of the books became less and less childlike.
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Date: 2013-12-20 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-12-20 09:55 pm (UTC)And the neighbors... Well, my husband and I giggled about it like the immature people we are, and decided that she was probably faking it. It did give me a plot bunny, though, but it's a scene rather than a fic so I'll have to figure out what to do with it.
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Date: 2013-12-20 09:59 pm (UTC)to this?
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Date: 2013-12-20 10:02 pm (UTC)Is that a different artist than the one you mean? I think so?
(sorry for editing this comment a zillion times!)
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Date: 2013-12-20 10:03 pm (UTC)???
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