Ah, right RYTX, I'd totally forgotten they brought the Venber back later on. *Headdesk* Yeah, I was thinking the Mak and the other few random aliens in the earlier books.
Talking about all this, I just realized I still haven't even watched the Harry Potter movies. I think I saw the first one way back in the day, but I guess I've really gotta rent or Netflix 'em at some point. Even if they're not my thing, they seem to be the type of movie everyone's at least gotta see, if just for cultural awareness. Not much of an exaggeration to say that after the Matrix sequels didn't quite hit home HP kind of became the Star Wars of Gen Y/older millennials.