h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I thought PO'T was dead as well?

*Wanders over to http://kickthebucket.tripod.com/ to check*

B

nah, he's still kicking around.

So I see...

B

Since Hogwarts is full of magic and wizardry, what anyone might look like from one year to the next needn't be considered a constant. The experience with the excessively vain Guilderoy in this book might be an excuse for Dumbledore to drop whatever current seeming he has. There'd even be precedent from the Philosopher's Stone, where the stone was destroyed. (Although, if one of them can be made, then another can, so anyone as enterprising as Voldemort wouldn't be necessarily stopped by Flamel's suicide)

The next actor to play Dumbledore could be anyone, ala a Dr. Who regeneration.

<eureka)

Tom Baker as Dumbledore! Perfect!

B

Ah - my lightbulb didn't come on...



There it is.

B

That was a sort of drawing pin eureka on your first attempt.

Sylvester McCoy!

Liam.

Well, we've had worse suggestions...

B

>Tom Baker as Dumbledore! Perfect!
..but you'd keep expecting him to get out his sonic screwdriver and wear a long floppy scarf

Why not Alistair Mcgowan? He could be /any/ of the above...

Phil

Don't think I could cope with the thought that at any minute Dumbledore might transmogrify into David Beckham...

...or Alan Titchmarsh.

B

AAAARRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

Did David Beckham and Alan Titchmarsh play Dr Who? I stopped watching Dr Who after Tom Baker, so I've lost track of who did it later? Did Beckham have a dumb brunette "assistant"?

*Drools quietly at the idea of David Beckham in robes*

Sir Ian McKellen, aka Gandalf, has been asked to play Dumbledore, but he hasn't said yet whether he will or not.

Are the books really that good?
Well - How good does a book have to be to have a lazy, dyslexic 9 year old who'd rather be read to than read spend the whole weekend reading 500 pages in one sitting (No TV or computer games and very little food or sleep...)

We heard about the first one by word of mouth and I became addicted after hearing my husband reading a few pages one bedtime.

The children have spent years begging for massive doses of all the books, and re-reading them several times.

The 21 year old daughter (who isn't normally a fantasy reader) read the 4 books in one sitting.

Hubby isn't a fantasy fan either, but he loves them - and prefers them to His Dark Materials.

I prefer them to Diana Wynne Jones (though probably not Ursula Le Guin).

Of course the films aren't as good. When have films ever been able to compete with your imagination?

Having said that, we went to see Chamber of Secrets last Saturday for a birthday treat (MY birthday treat) and it was wonderful.

Roll on the next book...

That was an answer to post 20...

Blush not, Tefkat! You were bringing this thread back on topic.

>> Tom Baker as Dumbledore! Perfect! <<

Nah. He's too earthy.
He'd make a good Sirius Black.
While I'd love to see Robert Carlyle as Black he isn't really 'big' enough (in the way TB is).

Is Derek Jacobi still alive?

Well that makes a change Gnomon.

Does anyone know anything about the new film's release?
According to the media, and the Harry Potter website itself, it's not being released in England till this weekend - but at least three different cinemas up here have been showing it since last weekend. My children's friends won't believe they've seen it.