[HPFGU-Movie] Gleanings from 3rd Viewing

[Amanda Lewanski]

heathernmoore wrote:
various observations, which I've randomly answered or added to as it
occurred to me.

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

That's in canon, as is the content of what he says, that she ate a funny
whelk.

> Good GOD, how old is the current Ollivander? He made Tom Riddle's
> wand!!

I think something's up with Ollivander. I think he's way more than meets
the eye.

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

What latitude do you live in, dear? Sure it could be that dark at 7pm in
Scotland. Or so this Texan believes; any of you UK-ites out there ready
to confirm this?

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

And after four or so counts, there are twenty first-year Gryffindors who
file into the common room after Percy. Hm.

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

Snape *always* looks irritated   <g>.

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

Penny caught, when she and Sheryll and I were there, that the notes in
front of Harry when we see him from the front (rather than looking over
his shoulder at them) are not what he was writing; they're different.

> 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?

Because the chained ones are dangerous to the others. They are in the
middle so they can't reach the rest. Witness the Monster Book of
Monsters, which needs rather more than a chain.....

> 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

Also, the creatures bearing the braziers along the walls of the Great
Hall are winged versions of the House animals.

It is NOT a Blue's Clues romper on the baby Harry. It is a blue dog, but
(a) the ears are not long enough; (b) the face shape is not quite right,
and (c) there are no darker blue spots on the dog. I've spent many long
hours looking at Blue, and had to make a Blue cake for my son, and so
have studied her. You can trust me on this one.

Snape is walking down the hall, away from Harry, Hermione, and Ron, when
they come into the hallway after talking to McGonagall. You see him look
over his shoulder at them, then he comes back to them, and then
continues on his way. He goes out of his way to have this confrontation,
it's not that he just happened to walk up from behind them.

It looks to me like Snape was limping as he left the hall by the back
doorway, during the exodus after Quirrell announced the troll. He didn't
get wounded when he went up to head Quirrell off, then. Hmm.

--Amanda


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