Movie night

This afternoon I bought a ticket for the midnight screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.

I didn’t plan on going to the midnight screening, because I’m not really that much of a hard-core HP fan (although I love the books) and not desperate to watch it straight away; I’d prefer to go with someone if I went, and anyway I assumed that all the tickets would be long gone. Then I read on the cinema’s Twitter page this morning that there were still some tickets left to the midnight screening tonight, and I was like, ‘why not?’

So during my stroll around Wellington this afternoon I stopped at the cinema and bought a ticket. I’m going by myself, but that’s alright. I’m sure the experience is going to make up for it. I wonder if there will be people dressed up as HP characters…

The “official” world premiere is, as far as I know, November 19. However, that doesn’t seem to apply to NZ. Here the date is November 18, and thanks to the time difference between NZ and Europe (read: Norway), and me going to the midnight screening, I’m going to see the movie way before anyone in Norway does. Wicked.

If I was a mean person, I’d run home after it was finished and tell all my friends in Norway who are HP fans everything that happens. But that would be cruel, and I’m not going to do it.

Before the movie I’m having a wee drinking sesh with one of my friends from Norway, who just happens to live in Wellington as well. I’m meeting her in half an hour or so, so I better get going.

I’ll provide you all with my opinion of the movie as soon as I’m able to…