Harry in hindsight
12 September 2012 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Cast your mind back, to the dim and misty days of October 2001, just before The Sorceror's Stone was released in theatres, before the entire civilized world knew who Albus Dumbledore was, when the only pictures we had of Professor McGonagall and Severus Snape were those in our own heads (but still, alas, long after the first Harry Potter fanfic surfaced in the Pit of Voles). Into this anxious time of uncertainty and anticipation (will the kid who plays Harry be able to act? will he look like I imagined?) stepped Vanity Fair, with a photo feature called "Something About Harry" and the world's very first look at The Boy Who Lived (not to mention the Professor Who Made His Life Hell and Spawned a Thousand Fangirls, Me Included).
Travel back in time with me and see them...
Annie Leibovitz (she of the infamous John Lennon/Yoko Ono Rolling Stone photo), did the pictures and she set up some fantastic poses -- she made sure to work in glimpses of Hogwarts as backdrops, an extra bonus. I can't decide if the shot of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team lounging about the Common Room is my favorite, or the intriguing shot of Quirrel, Hooch and what looks like a pterodactyl skeleton (in the library, yet!).
I now REALLY want a copy of this issue of Vanity Fair.
Travel back in time with me and see them...
Annie Leibovitz (she of the infamous John Lennon/Yoko Ono Rolling Stone photo), did the pictures and she set up some fantastic poses -- she made sure to work in glimpses of Hogwarts as backdrops, an extra bonus. I can't decide if the shot of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team lounging about the Common Room is my favorite, or the intriguing shot of Quirrel, Hooch and what looks like a pterodactyl skeleton (in the library, yet!).
I now REALLY want a copy of this issue of Vanity Fair.
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Date: 2012-09-13 02:23 am (UTC)What I remember most is the Hubs coming home and saying, "Professor Snape is going to be played by Alan Rickman!" and me thinking, "Holy Shit - perfect casting!"
I still think it was inspired.
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Date: 2012-09-13 03:13 am (UTC)I vividly remember going to see the film; I went to the midnight opening with several other professors from my school. We saw quite a few of our students there.
Would you mind if I posted this link to my flist?
(I wonder if that story really IS the first HP fanfic? I'm going to read it when I get the chance.)
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Date: 2012-09-13 03:44 am (UTC)My favorite shot is definitely Hooch in that fabulous outfit with the pterodactyl.
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Date: 2012-09-14 01:07 am (UTC)Pfffft. What a redonkulous question. And yeah, Hooch does look rather dashing :)
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Date: 2012-09-13 03:21 pm (UTC)My favorite has to be the cupboard under the stairs - it's such a defining symbol of the series, and it represents what hooked me on the books in the first place - that she takes the house that Roald Dahl built and enriches his legacy so lovingly.
And Radcliffe is such a moppet in that shot - I just want so badly to give him a cookie and a hug to make it better.
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