This year... I'm sorry for not posting Samhain content earlier, but I caught a cold at the local mall where I went for the All Hallows event!
I went obviously as a Ravenclaw student with a steampunk streak...
And I got nearly decapitated! The executioner was quite the Potterhead and teased me that, if the execution went right, I would join the club of headless ghosts on Hogwarts... what's it called?
Aha, the Headless Hunt! https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Headless_Hunt
Though, to be frank, playing polo with a severed head is not my cup of tea...
Fortunately I only got NEARLY decapitated, more John Cleese than Marie Antoinette! And Mum and I got a gift from the executioner:
Tickets to the new Les Mis film coming up next week!
Now with an all-French cast, made in France, three hours long, without songs, and surely more faithful to Víctor Hugo!
Out of the Amis, we only know who will be playing Enjolras and COURFEYRAC, and it's a pair of up-and-coming French thespians (I presume all of the new Amis will be played by French thespians in their twenties);
Joaquim Fossi will play our fair leader Enj,
and Jean Chevalier will be my favourite, Courf (I hope they live up to their characters, and that I can meet the rest of their little group - who will be Combeferre and Grantaire, for instance?)
Definitely this new adaptation will do to Les Mis what this summer's Odyssey did to Homer's epics (and yes indeed, I will soon post my review of the 2026 Odyssey starring Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway)
