I'm a monster.
In any event, it is currently very late, but it's Friday, so it's irrelevant. That's right, I walk on the wild side.
I was planning on going to bed around 1:30, on the couch while season two of Arrested Development played on a continuous loop. Like I said, wild side.
However, around 1 o'clock Mallory came home and promptly found a youtube video titled "50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments".
If you know me even a little bit, you probably know that there are few things I would rather do than watch a compilation of Harry Potter moments, organized in order of greatness. That's just how I roll. An issue arose, however, when it was revealed that the video was one and a half hours long.
"We're not going to watch all of it." Mallory said, sure that we would fall asleep in no time. I agreed. Oh, how misguided we were.
Just as the video began to play, Mallory paused it, turned to me and said "Ok, what are the top five moments?"
Apart from being slightly ironic (being in blatant contradiction to our previous claim that we would not make it to the end.We're just winners at everything), it was also a weighty question. Despite what you would assume if you saw my apartment, my mind can be bizarrely organized when it involves things that hold no relevancy to being a functioning member of society. I'm like a child who ranks their favorite sandwiches in order of yummyness and blurts it out an inappropriate times, only with Disney Princesses and Community quotes.
I had, unfortunately, not figured out my top five Harry Potter moments. I have favorites to be sure, but to narrow it down to a definitive top five was stress inducing.
I eventually concluded that I did not have a set top, however moments I knew would be in my highest rankings would be as follows.
In no particular order:
The kiss between Ron and Hermione: I was more emotionally invested in their relationship than 50% of my own.
The kiss between Ron and Hermione: I was more emotionally invested in their relationship than 50% of my own.
The Prince's Tale: All the feelings. All the tears. All the awards to Alan Rickman.
"Yer a Wizard, Harry": Just duh.
The Resurrection Stone: The reunion of the Marauders and Harry makes me cry in all it's mediums.
So we watched it. And it was fantastic. It was basically like an adrenaline shot of nostalgia and emotion and lists, it was unhealthy. We laughed, we almost cried, we fangirl-ed over Rupert Grint. It was an all around good time.
Until it reached the top ten.
"Yer a Wizard, Harry" was number 10, which was fine. It still counts as an acknowledged top ranking moment. I still win.
After that point, I became so stressed, I cannot even begin to understand it. Each moment before the presentation of the next rank was anxiety producing and nerve wracking. Like I said, unhealthy.
The closer they got to #1 the clearer it became that my top three moments were not going to be represented. I became irate.
How dare that kiss not be in the top ten!? Are you a soulless monster, or is there another reason the Resurrection stone scene doesn't move you to your core? Are you Helen Keller and could neither see nor hear the scene where Snape's whole life story is revealed?
The number one moment ended up being some throw back nostalgia shot of the kids all seeing Hogwarts for the first time, which is great, I'm not a monster, but I was not pleased.
We complained, loudly, to ourselves, no doubt disturbing out normal-sleeping-hours neighbors. It wasn't until the final seconds when Robbie Coltrane (did I mention that Robbie Coltrane narrated this? Yeah, he totally did. It was mega awesome) said something along the lines of "We can't wait to see the final installment in 2011" that we realized that not a single one of the moments was from the second part of Deathly Hallows and that the date on the bottom of the video read "2010" and also that we'd made a huge mistake.
So needless to say, I will be making my own list of top 50 Harry Potter moments in the near future.
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