Magic in Movie / Biggerstaff / Dave's Comments /Snowy Owl in Snow / Dixie's

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Darice wrote:

> As for students, we see Hermione use her wand three times: 
> Wingardium Leviosa, Alohomora and Petrificus Totalus.

And Oculus Reparo to fix Harry's glasses on the train, and something 
Incendario to set Snape's cloak on fire, and something I didn't quite 
hear to blast the Devil's Snare with full spectrum light.

Barb wrote:

> They aren't supposed to do magic outside of class unless they're
> practicing for class.

Um, do you have a book quote for that? I remember 'no magic in the 
corridors' and no magic while on holiday, but I thought they were 
free to do a lot of magics on their own time while at Hogwarts.

Noel wrote:

> Have a butterbrewski, there's something I need to tell 
> you.....the chicks all have the hots for [Biggerstaff] 

1) Not all the chicks. I found in chat that not only us old ladies, 
but two wise young ones prefer Rickman.
2) Not just chicks. The gay men were squabbling over him until 
someone started handing out Biggerstaff clones to everyone who wanted 
one.

> the Magic Sports Channel, take-off time's in two minutes and
> I CAN'T FIND MY REMOTE!! 

I thought one uses one's wand as the remote for Crystal-Clair 
TeleVoyance Balls.

Dave Hardenbrook wrote:

> And we never hear [Mrs Norris's] name!

LOTS of people we never heard their names. Dean Thomas was there and 
even got one line that didn't belong to him, but we never heard his 
name. I don't think we heard Seamus's name even tho' he got more 
lines than Dean. We never heard the names of the Gryffindor Chasers. 
We heard Neville say Parvati Patil's name and I believe I saw her, 
but not at the same time. I need my frame by frame, to list other 
people who were there but just in the background and not mentioned.

> (Is Draco the only Slytherin who's ever invoked a 
> teeth-straightening charm?)

The Slytherin Seeker (we know that the character is named Terence 
Higgs and people in chat said the actor's name is Will Theaking) 
looked reasonably attractive. So did that girl who had no business 
being on the Slytherin team. I need my frame by frame to check if 
there were MORE girls on that team.

> The "cartoonishness" of the troll didn't bother me... They're
> not exactly the lords of magical creation anyway...

When I saw the troll advancing on Hermione, I suddenly understood why 
the girl in my fic whose Boggart was a troll just screamed and ran 
away: I'm just surprised that her classmates didn't do the same!

Speaking of classmates, did the neckties seem to you-uns like all 
first-years were in all classes together, not separated by House, and 
presumably the same for the older years? If there were 400 students, 
as appeared in the Great Hall in the Arrival Feast scene and as said 
in the advance publicity for the movie, that would be 60 kids in each 
class, a big load for professors to handle. Especially as I tried to 
count the kids in the flying class and got either 12 or 13 in one 
line and it looked like the other line was the same number, so that 
would have been only two Houses....

Speaking of the flying lesson, why didn't Madam Hooch wave her wand 
to levitate Neville down safely when he was hanging from the roof 
ornament? Speaking of Madam Hooch, was she the witch in blue at the 
Head Table at the Arrival Feast?

> Who are the undentified people at the staff table?  Could the
> black woman be Sinistra?

I thought so, and perhaps the witch in red was Professor Vector.

> Did anyone else notice the dragon skeleton? 

I don't remember noticing it, but you remind me that I don't know how 
Ron knew that the hatchling dragon was a Norwegian Ridgeback, as it 
didn't have even babystumps of ridges on its back yet? Charlie would 
not have brought any baby dragons home with him on holiday for Ron to 
see; did he give Ron a book about baby dragons?

The baby dragon reminded me of my visit to the American Museum of 
Natural History in NYC the previous week. In a case on the east wall 
of an easterly room in the dinosaur hall, there was an adult and a 
baby of the same species (velociraptor?) and my friend led me 
straight there to show me the little cutiesaurus. Whoever would have 
thought that the naked skeleton of a reptile would be cute and cuddly!

Hertopos wrote:

> Actually, I really love that scene. It was the most beautiful scene
> in the movie. 

I'm one of the people who didn't understand that scene at all. I 
thought Harry must be sending an owl post, but I didn't see any 
scroll tied to her foot. I think that it indicates that that scene 
was defective that so many people on this list didn't understand what 
it was about. This movie is not an art film, so it is up to the 
movie to make itself understood to the audience. If it were an art 
film, it would be the audience's responsibility to understand the 
movie, so the conclusion of this matter would be that the audience 
was defective.

Dixie Malfoy wrote:

> Shouldn't Gryffindor get at least a foul? Can they really play 
> without a Keeper? Or is Madam Hooch just not paying attention? 

The Quidditch rules (no replacements for injured players) mean they 
have to go on without a Keeper, just like they lost by playing 
without a Seeker when Harry was knocked out in PoA.

Almost all I saw of that match was fouls! Not just the [violent] 
physical contact between players and between brooms, but flying out 
past the edges of the Quidditch pitch, and flying into the audience 
crowd. Hoochie should have been constantly blowing her whistle, 
stopping the game, and giving someone a penalty throw. Since she 
ignored all those fouls, it hardly matters whether a Chaser or 
Captain taking a Beater's club is against the rules: I don't recall 
seeing it mentioned in QTTA.

> Didn't like the Bloody Baron. Looked a bit too happy lol. 

Very much agree!

> Also, was it just me or was the Grey Lady, like, everywhere? Did
> you see her in McGonagall's classroom when the Trio ask to see 
> Dumbledore? It looked like she was writing or copying something.

That scene in McGonagall's classroom is the only time I remember 
seeing the Grey Lady without the other ghosts. I wonder what she was 
writing? Helping McGonagall grade homework? Eternally doomed to 
making up missed exams and late homework?