MLB.com: You said his name. That’s bold, but he’s dead, so we’re fine.
Fairbanks: Can’t break a taboo if the guy’s dead.
I really enjoyed the Triwizard Tournament and all the Quidditch World Cup stuff. I thought that the two schools were really fun to bring in. ... And then ‘Half-Blood Prince,' the Voldemort backstory is great. It's the last book where you have any sort of Quidditch again, which I love Quidditch. Quidditch is awesome, despite the giant mishandling of the snitch point scoring. I just love the Voldemort path through him descending into evil, though, I don't know if he descended, because he kind of was just an absolutely horrible person. And then Snape unintentionally being Harry's best teacher was also really fun.
‘Prisoner [of Azkaban]’ is far and away the best movie. It's not even close. It's the only one that's cohesive and close enough to everything that it does justice in a way to the book. You get the time turner stuff, the dementors. Everything. They did a very good job with three.
Prisoner also has one of my favorite lines in the whole series, when they time turn and Harry casts his patronus and Dumbledore tells him that ‘Prongs rode again last night.’ I just love it.
‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ has the best redemption arc ever, in my opinion, as Zuko goes from banished prince to firebending teacher for Aang. It's kind of like ‘Harry Potter.’ You have the saddling of kids with adult problems. It's set as this long journey, and to see how they brought all the pieces together and made it happen was great. There's so many good, funny references and stuff that spawned from it. ‘Avatar’ is awesome. And then they made a sequel, ‘The Legend of Korra.’
They have books. Now they're doing an adult Aang movie, doing a ton of actual stuff to make it a franchise. What I find really cool about how they've done it, is, with Aang and Korra, they're opposites. Aang is this pacifist, airbender monk grappling with having to be a warrior, and Korra is this hot-headed bending prodigy. … All these avatars are having to deal with different faces of their predecessors, and how they are almost mismatched and learn to grow as a whole to become different things that they need.
