Movie Watcher Reads Harry Potter For the First Time! - Order of the Phoenix Chapter 21!
Added 2026-01-30 19:07:18 +0000 UTC
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I've noticed the reactions to Hermione's "just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon" line are different in the book and the movie. In the book she slings that line at Ron as a bit of an insult, and goes back to what she was doing, while in the movie they all start laughing. I've never really liked that scene in the movie.
MP
2026-02-23 05:40:33 +0000 UTCSomething I was thinking of with your concern about videos going over 6 hours; would it work to post it as 2 videos? One video for your chapter review, and another one for the book club? Although as others have said, some of the chapters are longer, and it may be best overall to just accept that those chapters need to be done one at a time.
MP
2026-02-23 05:31:17 +0000 UTCHow about this as a mid point between the extra time overall if you just do 1 chapter and the amount of time it takes you to complete 2 chapters in one go. Why not do 2 chapters but give yourself 6 weeks to do it instead of 4. It will mean the reviews aren’t at the same time each month but hopefully nobody will mind that if you let us know roughly when to expect it.
Noni
2026-02-16 15:01:06 +0000 UTCThanks Veggie for the good wishes for my inspection! If anyone is interested, it happened today and the people assessing me were faaaaar from Umbridge level, luckily 😅 my class was really supportive too, answered my every question, behaved well and did their group work task great, so I got really positive feedback! 😊 I won't know the exact results for weeks still, but I'm sure I've passed from what they said 😊
Réka Kovács
2026-02-10 16:44:01 +0000 UTCMaybe do a poll on if people prefer one or two chapters at a time? 🤔
Madikuma95
2026-02-04 00:45:41 +0000 UTCYep. I had to use google translate to get the katakana because I don't have a Japanese friendly keyboard though, google translate really dropped the ball there for Veggie
Gugurupurasu Daikirai
2026-02-03 20:56:35 +0000 UTCI don’t think it makes sense to think of it as making the project longer because you are only doing one chapter instead of two, when that one chapter is easily as long as two chapters were in the past. The books are longer, it would be unreasonable to expect you to cover them in the same amount of time it took to cover shorter books. As the books get longer, so do the chapters. If you try to cover two at once the whole way through you will just burn yourself out and we will get less content that is lower quality, in my opinion. I’m sure there will be people that disagree with me, but I don’t know what they are doing here if they aren’t primarily interested in seeing you be able to really dig into the text. In my opinion, you taking the same amount of time to cover the same length of actual text (which is what you are doing when you do take the especially long chapters one at a time), feels like a win/win. But maybe you could do a poll or something that would give you a more accurate picture of how everyone feels. I don’t want you to feel bad either way, though, cause even though we are paying to be here, this is still your life and your channel, and in the end, making the decision that is best for you *will* mean that your content is better and will attract the people it’s really for. At the end of the day, you will never make everyone happy, so never sacrifice your health or wellbeing in the attempt.
Ashley Evers
2026-02-03 17:06:43 +0000 UTCI know a lot of people think that the next two chapters should go together and I can see why, but I also think that there’s so much going on that I would hate to not be able to cover it as in depth as we would like. Personally, I would like to be able to hear more of your thoughts about them and do them separately.
Badger Kat
2026-02-03 10:21:44 +0000 UTCI was thinking about your dream Veggies, and from the off it sounded strange, as I knew William Hartnell died a long time ago, 30 years before the release of the first HP film! I wondered if you perhaps were dwelling on a film or tv series featuring William and Robert Hardy, who played Fudge, and was acting for decades himself; but no, according to IMDB they never worked together in film, though perhaps they did on some tv show, or on stage. Hence I dunno why you came up with that in your dream! They are strange things dreams, they seem like the most important thing in the world if you are having a restless night, then when you get up, you forget all about them, unless they are particularly vivid or a nightmare. Nicely brings us into this chapter though with Harry's vision. Btw while I remember, the new audiobooks are available (for the first three books I believe with the rest to follow soon); perhaps you might want to look into them, or see what you think about them in future, as you'll still be covering these books for a few years yet mate! :) Disagree completely about having to take the students aside who can see Thestrals and why Veg. They aren't 11 years old now; this is symbolic of Harry and the other classmates of his year approaching adulthood, of facing death and mortality, and the time for being mollycoddled, is past. And for Harry, who has already endured so much, stuff like this is literally childs play. You didn't mention that Hagrid then continues about Thestrals being potentially dangerous, that a dog could be dangerous if provoked too; and as you own a dog Veg I know you realise this. Thestrals are no more dangerous than horses if spooked, but since they are trained by Hagrid, this is a non-issue. He has brought in more dangerous stuff to his classes sure, but you are being biased against him this scene Veg. Hagrid seems to be the irk of you these days now you have moved on from Harry! ;) Umbridge is being particularly spiteful towards Hagrid during the teaching scene, and its horrible; but I don't think its particularly bad that she asks Neville who he saw die. Its no worse than if someone in our family dies and are asked about it, and we tell them. Sure, some memories can be rawer than others, my own mother who I was close to, died just 6 months ago, and I still dwell on her daily; but if asked, I have no issue telling those about it. Neville too has been through worse, than watching his grandfather buy it. Also stop fretting about this 6 hour nonsense. I have vids in my Youtube playlists that are 11 hours long; these 10 hour repeat stuff are popular there too. Don't rush through it just because you feel you need to. Harry knows Hermione is just being curious when she speaks out of turn about wanting to see Thestrals, hence why he doesn't admonish her about it. He knows she didn't mean anything more by it. If you want to know the opposite of a word, type the word in and then type antonym. So for the opposite of inept, you type "inept antonym" which yields "adept", so you were correct Veg. Hermione is not jealous in any way about anything in her talk to Harry about Cho! She is being a good friend by being reasonable to him about the situation, and asking what he thinks of this potentially nascent relationship with Cho. We have all had friends like that I'm sure where they are there to spell things out to us when we are confused about how to feel or behave. Hermione's business-like dialogue to Harry is offering him clarity, nothing more. Harry says about Arthur's attack being "serious" not bloody "Sirius"!! Sometimes you really need to pay attention more Veg I'm afraid to say...
Saltire le Hutt
2026-02-02 03:08:22 +0000 UTCAt the beginning of Gugurupurasu's comment it's written in Japanese and says "Hello, Veggie and Woozle"
Katie
2026-02-01 21:27:31 +0000 UTCUnfortunately Veggie, the next 10-11 chapters are all around the 50 minute mark. The next two chapters fit neatly together, it would honestly be very weird to split them up. Still, they are chunky chapters with a lot of detail, whatever you decide to do we'll watch/listen. Chapter 28 should definitely be stand-alone. 29 should too come to think of it.
S1lm4r1l
2026-02-01 11:48:33 +0000 UTC
