Harry Potter Movies

Today and yesterday have been another of my favorite days on tv.  The Harry Potter movies have been airing on a channel called Freeform.  It was only about three weekends ago that they aired them over the weekend, so to have them on again so soon was a surprise.

I didn't get into reading the books or even watching the movies until late in the series, and then it started with my son, he was falling behind in reading and he mentioned wanting to read the Harry Potter series, and this was probably only about seven years ago. So I checked out the first book of the series and I started reading it aloud to my son every night before bed.  This lead to reading the whole series together aloud.

A couple years later my daughters were old enough to want to hear the books and so I started the series over and read it aloud to the girls every night before bed.  Of course, over the time that it took me to read the series aloud to the kids every night, we ended up watching the movies up to that point on tv. Well, once I saw the movies, I was like, wait....there was this and that, and this that occurred in the book that was completely cut from the movie, so I had to go back and read the books again another time for myself.

Since then, I love watching the movies, but they always spark a desire in me to read the books again once I have seen the movies because I know there is so much that had to be cut from the books to make the movies short enough to air. I love going back and reading the books and getting the small nuisances and undercurrents that are going on in the book that you miss completely in the movie.

My only complaint about the movies on tv, especially this Freeform channel that tends to reair them repeatedly is that they skip Order of the Phoenix all the time. It drives me crazy, that is probably my favorite book, and they skip it! Ugh!

Well, not that the Deathly Hallows part II is almost over it looks like I need to head to the library again and get the books and reread the series! Sound like the perfect weekend!