Molly is Fifteen and Haitch Pea and Gee O'Bea

Went to THQ on Friday for Molly's birthday party, which entailed seeing the new Harry Potter flick in a rented screening with Molly's friends and NSU's Harry Potter Literary Society. Molly and Sarah went in their Hermione Granger drag. Sarah looked a lot like Diane Keaton circa Annie Hall. It occurred to me too late that I could have dressed up. With my bushy beard and hair not cut since the summer of 2004, not to mention my, um, biggitude, I would've made a kickass Hagrid.

The movie was good. It makes me want to read the book now. I saw the first two movies, then read the first three books before the third one came out. The only thing I wish they'd added to numero tres was that the four former friends were responsible for creating the map.

A minor criticism of number four is that the movie was really made for people who had read the book. I was so confused throughout most of it. It's ironic that the one of the few times a movie doesn't condescend to the audience by dragging things out and over-explaining, I'm in need of a road map.

On a separate note, Legally Blonde is on in the background. This flick is crackin' me up. The scene where Jennifer Coolidge gets her dog back just played. Reese Witherspoon's nonsensical gibberish of legal-ese - subject matter jurisdiction (the court's ability to hear a case) and habeus corpus (latin for "to have the body" - people who are arrested and held have the right to ask the government why they are being held) - in confronting the man for his dog back had me rolling. It is, however, an ethical violation to present yourself as a lawyer when you do not have a license to practice law.