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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., frantyck at y... wrote:
> 
> # It's VoldemorT, not Voldemore.

Let's be clear. It's VoldemorT in the movie. On the other hand, JKR 
herself pronounced it Voldemore in an radio interview, she advised 
Jim Dale in his pronunciations and he said Voldemore, and the 
Scholastic website says Voldemore. The movie version is not 
definitive. In a sense, it's like the scar. Different people 
interpret it differently.

> 
> # It was RJH King on the Quidditch award in the trophy case, not 
RJL.

The McGonagall reference was dated 1971, by the way. It seems 
relatively unlikely that this was our dear Professor, who was 
already on staff at Hogwarts when James was a student in the early 
70s (reference the conversation in the Three Broomsticks in PA).

> 
> # The house numbers on the tables in the Great Hall seem closer to 
> Rowling's one thousand than to a logically-derived 300 or 
> thereabouts. Better this way.

I've done a fairly good estimate of the number of kids in the Great 
Hall scene and it comes out to about 400. That tallies with comments 
from Columbus about the production. There are a total of 18 teachers 
besides Dumbledore (you can count them as the camera pans around 
Daniel in the Sorting Hat scene.) Presumably Trelawney does not 
attend, which brings the total number of teachers, including 
Dumbledore, to 20.

Steve