[HPFGU-Movie] Re:Rictus not so sempra

[Amanda Geist]

I have interleaved my comments between bboy's.

> bboy_mn:
>
> I haven't quite been able to decipher what Harry says. I admit it is
> close to what others have said. But given the scene as a whole, the
> 'laughing' spell doesn't seem consistent.

They seem to have kept to the book where they could. In the dueling scene,
not all the spells cast are in dialogue, so we don't hear what they all are.
THe disarming charm, Snape's "Expelliarmus," is the first.
>
> Draco says something about 'invertus', which others have expanded into
> roughly 'inverted posture'; loosely, flip you over backwards, which is
> exactly what happens to Harry.

The first spell Draco casts in the book, on "two" as in the movie, is not
identified; only that it makes Harry feel as if he's been hit over the head
with  saucepan. He gasps his response out as he is recovering from this
first Draco-spell, and what he casts at Draco is, indeed, "Rictusempra," and
the effect is to make Draco double up with laughter. I wish they'd had the
spells *work* in the movie (I mean, other than throwing their victims into
the air--why have different words if they all do the same thing?).

In the book, the third spell Draco casts at Harry is "Tarantallegra"
(spelling probably wrong) which makes Harry dance. This is replaced in the
movie-condensing of the scene by the also-identified-in-the-book
"Serpensortia," which makes a snake.

Just for the record, let me say that in addition to all of Ron's knowledge
and lines being given to Hermione, it bothers me that she was given the
benefit of another of Snape's masterful scenes in the book, for it was Snape
who cast "Finite Incantatem" during the duelling scene in the book, when
everyone was casting things at each other. I don't like that the spell was
"given" to Hermione in the movie, who cast it at the rogue bludger to stop
it.

Also, in the book, when Lockhart tried to get rid of the snake, he waved his
wand and there was a loud bang, but it doesn't mention any words. The snake
*does* fly up in the air and come down pissed, though. And when Snape gets
rid of it, he waves his wand, again wordlessly. So the snake-removal word is
a movie construct.

Just sorting out what came from where. I think Harry does say "Rictusempra,"
because it seems that where the book specifies the spell, they are faithful.
They just add a little bit.

~Amanda