Warning: I am a Harry Potter fanatic, and my fervor has only gotten worse as July 21 draws closer. This post reflects that.

With nothing much else to do today, I went down to Irvine and saw "Harry Potter" at the IMAX theater. It's been quite some time since I saw an IMAX film, so I had a good time. I'm afraid the Harry Potter movies may spoil me, since the scenes flick by so fast I barely notice time has past at all.

Rather than review the movie, which other people can do with greater ability than I possess, there is one thing I wanted to mention. I think what impressed me most of all about this film, beyond the continued progress Emma Watson has made in regards to her acting ability (remember when she had to enunciate every word?), was the characterization of Tonks. Like Alan Rickman's portrayal of Professor Snape, Natalia Tena's Tonks does not quite jive with the way the character is presented in the books. In OotP, and even more so in HBP, Tonks comes off as a bit of a drip. Sure, she has to be talented, but she always acts the ditz, and gets very weepy when Lupin spurns her feelings. But due to how fast this movie moved and how much was dropped in the script, Tonks comes off much stronger. Instead of that girl who could of been very good in class but got caught up in mad crushes every thirty seconds, she's now an older sister or young aunt, near enough in age to the kids to relate to them, but old enough that she's clearly got it better together than they do. In the climax of the movie, she appears not with the trepidation one would expect of someone young to the profession, but with "This wasn't the time to f**K with me" confidence evident in her features and stance. I sat upright in my seat when they showed her, and I realized that this, alone in the movie, was a character I could relate to.

I really hope the rest of the movies continue this characterization, which now that I think about it is possibly a combination between Tonks and Bill Weasley. I had looked forward to seeing Bill, who might have been a hot guy (and Lord knows the movies could use some legal man-flesh, as Tom Felton doesn't get enough scenes to qualify), but if ditching him brought me her, I'll not complain.