Old Japan Interviews Online/ Polyjuice Problem

[serenadust <jmmears@comcast.net>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, rvotaw at i... wrote:
 
> 
> Here's an interesting question.  Ron and Hermione run off to the 
toilets saying 
> they're going to be sick.  Which has got to be the stupidest 
possible way to 
> get them out of the picture so they don't have to do special 
effects for all 
> three of the transformations.  I mean, really, they've just spent 
a month 
> making this thing, not to mention all the rules they've broken and 
bent to get 
> everything needed.  Are they really going to go throw it up?  I 
don't think 
> so.  They aren't wimps, after all.

Hi Richelle,
Well, you don't have to be a wimp to feel nausea.  If you remember 
in the book, we really only *see* Harry's transformation, since 
actually seeing the results of Hermione's would spoil the surprise 
of discovering she's turned into a cat.  Also, in Chapter 12, The 
Polyjuice Potion it says:  "...Harry drank the Potion down in two 
large gulps.  It tasted like overcooked cabbage.  
Immediately, his insides started writhing, as though he'd just 
swallowed live snakes - doubled up, he wondered whether he was going 
to be sick..."

So, I really don't think that the filmmakers were trying to save the 
cost of the special effects in having Ron and Hermione head into the 
cubicles after drinking the potion (although I think the glass-
dropping was put in for dramatic purposes).  Obviously, since both 
Ron and Hermione actually *did* transform, they must not have 
actually been sick.  Overall, I don't have a problem with the film's 
approach to this scene, since it covered all the canon bases 
(although I do think that Ron and Harry's voices needed to change; 
but that's another post).  It seemed to be a better way to do it 
than having each of them retire to separate cubicles before taking 
the potion (the way it's done in the book).

JMHO

Jo Serenadust