That dang rumors link doesn’t work for me.
Am I the only one who noticed that Lucius Malfoy was going to cast one of the ‘unforgiveable’ curses on Harry at the end? Right before Dobby hammers him he says…
“Avada…” KER-PLOW!
He was going for the Avada Kedavra curse! He was going to kill Harry!
I haven’t read thru the whole thread but I did want to join in the Oliver Wood/Sean Biggerstaff Appreciation society.
The scottish accent, the purposeful walk…
::swoon::
Ladies, did you know he’s turning 20 this year? true fact… not just adorable, but perfectly legal. 
One thing in the movie I’ve been puzzling over since I saw it:
At the beginning, when Harry and the Weasleys go into the bookshop, Draco Malfoy is standing a couple steps up a staircase with an open book in his hand. as the camera is moving past him, he tears a leaf out of the book, folds it, and puts it into his pocket. So far as I can tell, nothing’s made of it later on in the movie; was it just some sort of ‘business’ for him (the actor) to do. I don’t remember anything like that in the book.
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Parody of what? How dead girls really sound?
I’ve asked this exact same question of some friends of mine who are HP fans. I recently reread the books and don’t recall anything like it in the book either. The best explanation I’ve gotten is that it’s just a way to help demonstrate Draco’s complete disregard for other people and their property; similarly, later in the movie he takes a gift that belonged to someone else in the Slytherin common room.
Anyone else have any ideas on what this was all about?
a parody of “an annoying, whiny girl”
I think, Realhoops, that you are right in your comment about Draco just not caring about anything belonging to anyone else.
I have a question, though.
In the book, CoS, Nearly Headless Nick had a deathday party celebrating 500 years. His date of death was 1592. So, did Rowling predate the years of her books so that it will be present time when Harry graduates?
Anyone have the inside info?
I agree about Moaning Myrtle. She sounded more like Shrill Sharon. Who did they get for the part, Kate Bush?
I thought the movie was fine. Had I been the director, however, I would have cut out the entire part with Harry’s family. It lent nothing to Harry’s character development and I think the time would have been better spent with something new and different, like Nearly Headless Nick’s Unbirthday party.
Heloise, I don’t think any of the dates given in the books are consistent enough to be sure of the years. Those more obsessive than I have pointed out that only certain years have a certain date falling on a certain day, etc.
I think J.K. Rowling probably just sets the stories in the present when she’s writing them…just little details like a given year not matching with objects like a Playstation.
I don’t get what you mean.
Well, I’m late to the party, but I just saw it and I want to speak.
The books are good at creating neat visually-oriented things that translate really well on screen–the train, the owls, the flying car–all of these are picture ideas. Both movies have been packed with neat things to see.
BUT… that’s never enough. Are we getting enough more to make it worth our while?
I like the duelling scene a lot–the confusion and interest of the various characters when Harry speaks parseltongue is well done. The parseltongue language also sounded good–more powerful and less hissy than I imagined it. It’s one of the elements (and they do seem to have kept many of these in) that ask Harry to think about who he is and what he should be–the core stuff in coming of age stories.
I thought Branagh was great. Lucius Malfoy is a promising villain–more realistic than Voldemort so far.
I thought having Draco tear the page out of the book showed his disrespect for books–points to the “books r good” theme in the books themselves.
I whine when books I like make bad movies. These are pretty good–the visual hooks are useful for this. I’m still looking for that emotional reaction the books give, though. The movies don’t quite give it up.
Well… you can have someone act like an annoying, whiny girl… or you can have someone do a parody of that type of character… over the top, unrealistic, etc. That is how I saw it. Almost like the actress were mimicking someone like that in an exaggerated way.
JessEnigma, I just looked at the website you posted. Sheesh! Okay, I’m not even going to try to sort it all out now. There are little indiscrepancies throughout the books and movies that I’ve decided to just let go of, because trying to sort them all out will drive me crazy!
P.S. Thanks for the website.