I haven’t read the book but have seen all the movies. I noticed that they have been using a lot of teleportation in the recent film, they used it to escape many situations: during the attack at the wedding, Nagini, Lovegood house. Why didn’t they teleport to escape the Snachers in the forest?
I don’t have the book in front of me, but at that point I think that Harry’s wand was broken and Ron is a less than capable apparater. Hermione would have to have had physical contact with both of them to safely do so. Even that would have been dangerous since the last time she tried apparating all three of them while stressed out, Ron was fairly seriously injured.
In The Order of the Phoenix, at the end of the chapter entitled ‘The Centaur and the Snake’ is this:
“Fawkes circled the office and swooped low over him. Dumbledore released Harry, raised his hand, and grasped the phoenix’s long golden tail. There was a flash of fire and the pair of them had gone.
‘Where is he?’ yelled Fudge, pushing himself up from the ground. ‘Where is he?’
‘I don’t know!’ shouted Kingsley, also leaping to his feet.
‘Well, he can’t have Disapparated!’ cried Umbridge. ‘You can’t inside this school -----’”
They were set upon before they could. When the word “Voldemort” was uttered the response was essentially a surprise raid.
While I liked the movie immensely, one nitpick was that it did not adequately explain the myriad ways the Ministry (now in the control of Voldemort) was closing in on Harry and his friends. Putting a magical tag on the name “Voldemort”, because only Harry had the balls to say it was something that could have easily been addressed.
:smack: maggenpye posted the answer right before me and I didn’t even notice it until now. Thanks.
We plan to go see this again tomorrow night. One scene that made me choke up right from the beginning was the scene where Hermione cast the Obliviate spell on her parents (our first time seeing them, right?). It was sad, you could tell she had a very heavy heart, and it was also chilling to see her image disappear from all of the pictures on the mantle.
I’m with those who’ve always liked the wandering-in-the-wilderness scenes in the book, and who also thought the condensed version was well-done in the movie.
No worries - I find I’m posting answers to things after the thread has moved on to other subjects :smack:
The Grangers were seen very briefly at the beginning of Chamber of Secrets, waiting to exchange muggle money at Gringotts.
The obliviate spell was a good scene - and a nice callback in the Forest of Dean where she’s telling Harry that her parents wouldn’t recognize the place they’d taken her camping as a kid - they wouldn’t even recognize her. Got a little dust in my eye at that.
I noticed that too, earlier in the film he called Voldy “he who must not be named”. No theories here.
In the movies Dumbledore can disapparate from inside Hogwarts. I don’t think he can in the books, but I could be wrong…
This more than anything else set the tone of the movie for me. 
No, we see a brief glimpse of them talking to Arthur Weasley in the bookstore at the beginning of Chamber of Secrets.
Where is the Invisibility Cloak right now? It wasn’t used in Half-Blood Prince as it was in the book. Is Harry supposed to have it with him (in Hermione’s bag, presumably)?
Did Hermione lose her bag at Malfoy Manor or does she still have it with her? I was thinking that’s why she couldn’t heal Dobby – she doesn’t have the Essence of Dittany with her any more – but I wasn’t sure.
Amazing to think that eleven-year-old Harry was given what turns out to be a priceless, one-of-a-kind magical artifact – and he uses it to sneak around after hours and go to a candy store and stuff. He could easily have lost it, traded it, whatever…
hermione still has her bag, i don’t believe essence of dittany can heal a knife through the heart.
fawkes can disapparate in hogwarts, dumbledore was carried along. house elves can apparate and disapparate in and out of hogwarts as well. it seems that only wizards and witches can not.
trailers are called caravans in the uk.
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Huh…I guess he had me fooled too.
It was a very moving scene, yes. But was I the only one who was wondering what this couple was going to think when they discovered all the framed photos of… nothing… on their mantle?
No, I was as well. The photos should have changed to just the parents doing things together.
Were they the same actors from the second movie?
I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, and thought they did the best they could with the “wandering in the woods” scenes. A lot missing, but I guess I had to expect that. Would have liked the “Dudley thanks Harry” scene–it only had to last a few seconds. Were Dudley and Petunia CGI?
One random observation that made me crack up at the end of the movie (probably not at an opportune time, but at least I was quiet about it.) Remember when Voldemort blew apart Dumbledore’s casket and carefully slipped the Elder Wand out of his grasp? Was I the only one who got a flashback to
The scene in the original cartoon version of “The Grinch” when the Grinch carefully removes the candy cane from Cindy Lou Who’s grasp by gently pushing it up from the bottom and then lifting it away?
I thought the Elder Wand was just a very plain stick, kind of short. Not the very identifiable one we see in the movie.
They weren’t going to use the actor who plays Dudley very much anyway – he’s lost all that weight and doesn’t look like Dudley any more!
Yeah, I would’ve liked that non-goodbye between Harry and Aunt Petunia too.
Wow! You’re not kidding! I had no idea he’d changed that much.
When they filmed the first movie they didn’t know about the Elder Wand, so I guess they were stuck with the fancy one Dumbledore had been carrying…
Ah. Good point.