Gleanings from 3rd Viewing

[heathernmoore]

Nice touch, Vernon receives a postcard from Marge complaining about her vacation on the day the first Hogwarts letter arrives.

That's Susan Bones standing with her cousins at the window of Quality Quiddich Supplies, isn't it? And I think I also saw Katie Bell (or is it Alicia Spinnet? The long-haired Gryffindor Chaser who double-teamed with Angelina on their second goal) with her sister(?) strolling in Diagon Alley.

Good GOD, how old is the current Ollivander? He made Tom Riddle's wand!! 
Ginny Weasley's a cutie for a ten year old. Did this girl sign for the next movie?

The Hogwarts Express departs at 11 am; should it really be pitch black already at 7pm when they arrive in Hogsmeade?

Does Emma have clear braces? I would swear Hermione was wearing those fancy-schmancy clear braces on the train. It would be a nice "daughter of dentists" detail.

There are nineteen or twenty places at the Hogwarts staff table, based on a count of nine teachers sitting on Dumbledore's right.

Snape *already* looks irritated by Quirrell at this Welcome Feast.

I saw a girl who was probably Padma Patil among the Ravenclaw FYs when they part company with the GFYs on the staircase.

Is that the original portrait of Anne Boleyn? Anne never moves. Do the muggle owners know they have a cheap copy?

There are *at least* 15 GFYs in the movie: I lost count at 12 and there were *at least* 3 more to the side when the scene in the Common Room shifted and I couldn't count them anymore. It seemed apparent that Percy was the only Prefect who took them to the Tower.

Where do all the other students go while the Prefects are giving the FYs their orientation??  

Draco seems intrigued by Snape's description of the powers of Potions. And anyway, his dad must have told him Snape's "one of our kind." Didn't see anything untoward here to creep me out. One wonders if the Malfoys are known for potion work?

I think that's Pansy Parkinson we see over Harry's shoulder in Potions Class. She's rather pug-faced. 

There are absolutely, no objections, Ravenclaw students in Potions, Flying, and Charms. Their blue trim is unmistakeable. 

Filch sits with Slytherin at the Quiddich match; Hagrid sits with Gryffindor. Staffers apparently don't have reserved seating in the teachers' skybox.

Hey, Slytherin's Seeker is kinda cute! He mostly seems to play fair, too.

Why are some of the books in the restricted section chained to the stacks, but most aren't? Why is the chained section right in the middle of an aisle?

Things that make you go "Hmm": on the final day of exams, McGonagall's chalkboard seems to be covered with random scribbles when the kids come to talk to her. One very prominent scribble consists of the words "meddling man."

Nice touch: Neville's teddy-bear PJs. How mortifying! He should have pink fuzzy bunny slippers, too. Pook kid!

Am I the only one who noticed that the obstacle course to get to the Stone feels remarkably like a generic Zork game? Leather Goddesses of Phobos would have been more amusing, though. ;>  (Free cheering charms for everyone who actally gets that bit.)

Nice touches:  Ron's "As for me, I'll be a knight."  Visual symbolism / foreshadowing of the king's sword falling at Harry's feet.

Anyone wanna hazard a guess who LV's face is intended to resemble? It looked a little Jeremy Ironsish to me.

Looking at the teachers' table, the house tables run this way: (on the audience's left, the wall with the outside windows, through the audience's right, the internal wall)

  Ravenclaw
        Gryffindor
             Hufflepuff
                  Slytherin


Gotta agree with whoever: try as I could, I never made a definitive Hufflepuff sighting aside from Susan Bones being in Charms class.