Dursley car error? / Columbus as Susan Bones

joanne0012 Joanne0012 at aol.com
Thu Dec 6 13:11:08 UTC 2001


--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "nlpnt" <nlpnt at y...> wrote:
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> - 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)

In one of the later books, Dursley gets a company car.  If this car is one, too, 
the company could have bought it new in Wales (as I understand British 
registrations), especially if that's where Grunnings' head office is.

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "windyroselane" <windyroselane at y...> wrote:
> Don't know if this qualifies as a blooper or not, since it was 
> probably done deliberately by her father, but we're sure we saw 
> Eleanor Columbus as a Gryffindor member a couple times after she's 
> sorted as Susan Bones into Hufflepuff (at the Gryffindor table, with 
> the Gryffindors at the Quidditch match, etc.) Columbus said his kids 
> have cameos in the film, and Eleanor got credit for Susan Bones, 
> although she doesn't have any lines. Eleanor, who begged him to read 
> the book, seems to have gotten the lion's share of cameos as a
> result. She even outstages Hermione in the boat: the lamplight is on 
> Susan (Eleanor), not Hermione.

Considering how much worse things would have been without Eleanor's input, I 
say give the girl anything she wants.







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