Flashback, warm nights, almost left behind...

[heidi]

...suitcase of memories, time after...

I was clearing off an old desktop computer - the one I used from 2002 through 2006 - and I found something I didn't realise I still had.

One of the first trailers for Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone, circa Spring, 2001. It was so early, we still didn't have a release date (it ended up coming out in November, 2001) and it was our first glimpse into WB's version of the wizarding world.

I put it up on YouTube yesterday for archival purposes, and

Wow, I don't think I realised at the time, but we never heard Daniel speak. I remember in the run-up to the movie's release there was this Katie Couric Behind the Scenes special that I refused to watch - I didn't want to be spoiled for the movie's actual content.

This week marks my 6th year at heidi8, and it's also the 13th anniversary of the opening of the FriendsZone, which was my first real non-music fandom experience, and wow, that's more than a third of my life with Friendsz and about a sixth of my life on LJ.

Damned long time. And this little 100-second clip was a tiny part of it in terms of minutes and seconds, and such an immense part of it in terms of import and impact.

Meep. Wow, what ickle things they were then. How grown-up we all are now.

Comments

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Technically, though, isn't the rumor that they're not going to make seven - that they're going to make eight!
How does that mess with your Bet with the Cosmos? No, not those Cosmos.

I made a bet with someone circa 2001 - it's in the archives of HPfGU - that Draco would do something that was definitively not-evil through the rest of the books. Unfortunately, the person I made the bet with passed away between the releases of Book Five and Book Six, so we never got to debate the Scene Atop the Tower - it's one of my biggest sadnesses about fandom. I would have loved having that convo with him.

[shocolate.livejournal.com]

excellent point - I will claim I said 'they'll never make seven films', not 'they won't film all seven books' - thank you for the legal advice!

*giggle*

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Meep, no, not technically legal advice! I don't do that in LJ comments! :D

But yes, pedantic!heidi8 is here!