Harry Potter nostalgia... and DH pics

The first filming shots of Dan Radcliffe for Deathly Hallows have been released. I'm oddly emotional at the notion - I remember when the first picture for Chamber of Secrets was released (and I'm sure some out there remember the first picture from PS...). I just... wow. Seriously. This is it, the final film(s) - and sometimes I still can't quite believe that the final book has been released (one and a half years ago? Seriously? Crazy). I'm still kinda wrapping my head around HBP being a finished film now (and finally only a few more monthes away... damned Warner Bros.). Hell, somtimes I'm taken aback that OotP is a film now, and it's been out for 1.5 years. I suppose it's in part because I was most heavily fannish about HP (much though I still love it) from 2001-2003, so on some level I still associate my fannish feelings for the books with only the first 4. I remember back in gr11 (circa 2002) listening to an instrumental song that totally made me think of the graveyard scene from GoF for no particular reason and thinking to myself "god, it's going to be YEARS before a GoF movie will be released, so the only way I'm gonna get a music video for this is to draw it." (needless to say, my "animate my own music video" idea lasted about as long as it took me to try to storyboard a couple of frames on one page of paper. ^^) After the movie came out I remember thinking "wow, it's out now - I could actually make that vid now" (never did, of course... oh well). And now it's been over 3 years since it came out. Whoa. :)

And lol, nostalgia much? I'm getting kinda maudlin at the thought of it all being over (at least after DH was released we still had the films, though I know, I know, it's still 2+ years until DH part 2 is released). And I just can't believe how long it's been... I just realized that DH pt2 will be released pretty much exactly 10 years after I got into the series (I read them earlier and liked them okay, but it wasn't until June '01 that I reread them (was sick during gr10 exams, heh) and thought to myself "hmm, I've heard that people write Harry/Draco fic. Interesting. I wonder how they pull that one off? Let's go find out..." and really, it was all downhill from there. XD XD (and honest to god, a few minutes ago when I realized it will have been 10 years, I totally got teary-eyed. Heh.)

Anyway... dunno how I got on this. I just can't believe that the first DH pics are out, though I know it started filming a month ago. This is it, the final movie... wow. ;__;

(and on a totally random note - I'm rather proud of myself right now for having fixed my co-worker's iPhone... she has an unlocked iPhone and she downloaded the newest firmware accidentally and it fucked up her phone. I admittedly didn't have to do much (followed an online tutorial), but I'm still happy. :) She was worried that she had completely wrecked it and she didn't know how to fix it, so I said I'd take a look... since I recently jailbroke my iPod Touch I kinda knew how it all worked. ^^ Anyway, wish I knew her home phone # so I could call her with the good news, but will have to wait til tomorrow).