Seeking Common Ground

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cindy wrote:
> After seeing everyone's reactions to the film, I was wondering 
> whether it is possible to reach consensus on anything.  

I agree with all of your list, except (and no doubt I'm in the 
minority):

> 2.  Seamus' scenes should have gone to Neville.

I didn't mind this.  I was actually rather glad that Neville didn't 
get all the blowing things up scenes, because I like Neville and I 
don't think he's as much of a nincompoop as I fear that would have 
made him out.  Meaning, if all he did was loose his frog and look 
perplexed, *plus* blow everything up...with only the bit where he 
stands up to the Trio to redeem him...he'd have seemed like just 
comic relief to me.  I felt that spreading the awkwardness between he 
and Seamus was in character for both of them (because Seamus *did* at 
least light up that feather in the book), made them both marginally 
more real (because there's never just *one* goofy kid in a class), 
and gave Neville a chance to be a more rounded character within the 
constraints of his screen time.

Other than that, thumbs up!  I'm very agreeable to your speculations 
on common ground!

Mahoney