Sunday, March 8, 2009

Irreverently Funny

For anyone who isn't aware, the very lovely Robert Pattinson played both Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter, and the vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight. The backstory that you need here is that Cullen was turned into a vampire in order to save his life as he lay dying in a hospital bed.

So Kaia and I are watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It's nearly over, Harry and Cedric have been transported into a graveyard where they are confronted by He Who Shall Not Be Named himself, who very promptly has Cedric killed by one of his evil minions (who used to be Ron's pet rat. I love it!). Harry defeats HWSNBN momentarily enough to rush back to the portkey with Cedric's body, and get back to Hogwarts. Very shortly after they appear seemingly out of thin air, everyone begins to realize that something is terribly wrong, and Cedric's father rushes out of the crowd to embrace his dead son. It's a very moving scene, and I am -this- close to tears, when all of a sudden, a brilliant idea comes into my head. I shout at the tv screen, "Quick, turn him into a vampire and save him!" And burst out into gales of laughter that are completely innapropriate for the scene which is unfolding. I am a bad, bad person.

4 comments:

MissDoom said...

thats what really happened. Cedric Diggory is Edward the Vampire!

Aethelflaed said...

Yes. Of course, when Carlisle turned him into a vampire, he must have had to change his name, because if Cedric Diggory was still running around after being dead, someone would get suspicious. Hence "Edward." Of course, this also means that "Harry Potter" had to have taken place in the early 1900's. But surely that's how it happened.

rachel said...

you know i'm not going to be able to watch that movie now without thinking that. just so you know.

Aethelflaed said...

Oh, no worries. Neither will I!