What one piece of information...

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., irbohlen at e... wrote:
> would you put in the movie that was left out? I really enjoyed that
> list of "positive changes" from book to film--and agreed with all of
> them--but there were some changes--things that were left out that I 
think 
> were VITAL.
> 
Dumbledore! Chamber music and tenpin bowling, "Nitwit, blubber, 
oddment, tweak", and seeing socks in the Mirror of Erised are *major* 
clues to Dumble's character- playful to the point of being percieved 
as off his rocker when everything's running smoothly, but a seriously 
powerful wizard when need be.


<<snip-BTW, you MUST get this month's Mad Magazine! The sendup of how 
that final scene played in the movie is bloody brilliant!>>
> 
> Finally, though, I think it is too bad they have practically every
> character bandying about Voldemort's name as if it were no big 
deal. I don't 
> understand this change at all. To me it's really important that we
> understand, as Harry learns, exactly how evil Voldemort is. I most 
especially
> missed Harry's speech that begins : "Don't you understand? If Snape 
gets
> hold of the Stone, Voldemort's coming back!...There won't be any 
Hogwarts to 
> get expelled from!...etc" when he's persuading Hermione and Ron 
that he's 
> got to get the Stone himself. [or am I having an old-timer's moment 
and he 
> _does_ give that speech?...]
> 

He doesn't- I had my second viewing today, and he doesn't. Harry 
calls Malfoy "Draco", Herm calls Voldy by name, Ron doesn't get to 
say, "Will you stop saying the name!" and Harry doen't get to 
say, "VOLDEMORT! I've met him and I'm calling him by name!"

(sings) Which leads us back to Dum-ble-do-ore (who doesn't correct 
Harry's one attempt at saying "you-know-who")
 

> PS: department of "huh?" changes: why Dark Forest instead of
> Forbidden Forest????

Some other things that made me go hmm....
- The Dursley's car- license number ends in "CY" indicating it was 
first registered in south Wales, not Surrey. I can't see them buying 
used (but then again I never pictured them with a wagon/estate car. 
SUV, maybe, but not a wagon)
-Kids in green school uniforms in establishing shot of Reptile House-
were those snakes on their badges?
-"Oculum Reparo" spell- Nice touch.