(hopefully new) Movie Comments

[Wanda Sherratt]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "Gabriel Edson" <feycat at f...> wrote:
> He says "Here is where I leave you, Harry Potter." Excuse me? He 
didn't TAKE Harry anywhere. That's a prime example of very poor 
editing if you ask me!
> 
I don't understand why everyone has such a problem with this line - it 
didn't strike me as odd at all.  Is it the word "here" or is it 
"leave" that makes the difficulty?  Both of the them work, it seems to 
me.  I read "here" as referring to that moment in time, not location; 
the way one would say "Now here's where Harry and Malfoy go into the 
Forest and find the dead unicorn."  And "leave" is just "taking one's 
leave", or departing, as in "John, I'm leaving you."  Sure, it worked 
originally when the centaur had carried Harry on a journey and then 
put him down, but it works in this context too.  It's not exactly what 
I would say in such a situation, but I figure centaurs talk a little 
more poetically than humans.

Wanda