Real men will watch "Transformers".
Posted on 07/11/2007 12:44:49 AM PDT by Dianna
I thought the acting was better all around with the kids. I really wanted to see Dumbledore’s trashed office though!
What I want to know is why in all these movies none of the characters is ever shown going to the bathroom and doing the usual business there, number 1 or number 2?
St. Mungos -- that reminds me, is there much of Neville in the movie?
I had the same reaction to Gone With the Wind.
Yes, he’s in there quite a bit, but I’ll let you see it for yourself, don’t want to spoil it TOO much. :-)
Haven’t seen the movie yet... must not read... arggh!
Tomorrow night. IMAX. 3D.
I don’t mind any movie spoilers. I know the plot so the only “spoilers” ther can be are things that are changed from the book.
Now, Deathly Hallows, that I would avoid spoiling at all costs. Almost time for that!
In Chamber of Secrets, both of the Vanishing Cabinets (one in Borgin and Burke's, one in Hogwarts) are mentioned for the first time, with very little attention drawn to them. They seem to be completely unimportant objects, right? Yet, continuing through the books, they (at least the one in Hogwarts) continue to make apparences. By Half-Blood Prince, there can be no mistaking that they are, indeed, objects of importance. But look at the movies...
In the movie CoS, I seem to recall that HP does indeed hide in a cabinet at B&B, but I have no recollection of the Hogwarts cabinet (which ends up being the more significant of the two) ever being mentioned. I haven't seen the film version of OOtP yet--is there any mention made of Montague being trapped in the cabinet? I imagine it was cut, simply because it could be. It doesn't really distract from the continuity of the storyline, even given what we know about the cabinets' roles in HBP. There are going to be far more nuances and outright clues in the books than in the movies, or the movies would run to ten hours apiece.
In a way, they are the same story being told to two different audiences--but they are the same story.
Another reason why I have not yet dismissed the possibility that the locket mentioned briefly as being present at Grimmauld is indeed the Horcrux--RAB. There is no doubt in my mind that RAB is Regulus Black; I think Rowling has admitted it (retrokitten might know for certain). The note left in the fake Horcrux is obviously significant, and Regulus can certainly be tied to Grimmauld Place. He was the favored son, after all. Not only that, he left the note knowing that his death was imminent. I think it would be natural for him to return to his family, to the safety of his own home, if for no other reason than for the comfort it may have offered him. The Death Eaters, IIRC, had no idea at all that LV was creating Horcruxes; LV himself does not seem to have known that RAB took the real Horcrux. Regulus was being hunted down by the Death Eaters simply because he got scared and wanted out--no other reason is mentioned, or LV would have ransacked Grimmauld Place himself in search of the missing Horcrux.
My, my, I do go on! Was Montague trapped in the cabinet in the movie? Inquiring minds want to know!
That ties with my thinking that the locket seen at Grimmauld Place is a real Horcrux. Kreacher was swiping everything he could lay his filthy little hands on, all the stuff the others were trying to throw away. The locket isn't mentioned specifically as something he took, but it wouldn't surprise me.
How many days until we know how wrong I am?!
I think people shouldn’t be encouraging children to get involved in the occult.
The people involved in the movies are mostly hopeless liberals, but I had to smile at the giant "W" toward the end of the movie.
Nope...
Isn’t Viktor Krum’s school located somewhere really cold? And they don’t have a headmaster yet, do they?
My parents didn’t want me getting involved in the occult, but thanks to Harry Potter I learned how to turn them into newts. They don’t bother me any more.
It's easier than some other things. I mean, have you ever tried to get 8 year olds to chew tobbacco and appreciate Three Card Monty?
When you get back from the 3D showing let me know how it is. I’ve never been to an IMAX movie and I’m wondering how good it is in 3D. I have to wait until Tuesday :(
Real men will watch "Transformers".
But, I don't know about the headmaster at all. I don't think she mentions it in HBP. I'm sure someone will be along to correct me if she did! LOL! I remember Krum implying that Karkaroff (sp?) was a pretty weak headmaster. While I was searching around for any info I could find about Durmstrang getting a new headmaster I found this quote from Draco on a message board:
"...Father actually considered sending me to Durmstrang rather than Hogwarts, you know. He knows the headmaster, you see. Well, you know his opinion of Dumbledore - the man's such a Mudblood-lover - and Durmstrang doesn't admit that sort of riffraff. But Mother didn't like the idea of me going to school so far away. Father says Durmstrang takes a far more sensible line than Hogwarts about the Dark Arts. Durmstrang students actually learn them, not just the defense rubbish we do ..." POA, UK edition, page 163
Well, Krum took that Hermione to the ball, so I guess they do admit that kind of riffraff after all. But, it's interesting that Narcissa didn't want Draco to go to Durmstrang.
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