[HPFGU-Movie] Arthur Not Attacking Lucius and Ron's Eat Slugs Spell (WAS: CoS cringes)

[Dani]

At 19:44 5/12/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Constance Vigilance ("Susan Miller") wrote:

[snip]
::The Lucius/Arthur brawl...or lack of it.::

I'm undecided as yet as to whether I prefer the brawl or not... I do think, 
though, it does change a certain amount of Arthur's character. I am very 
fond of the tight-lipped smile he gives the rest of his family. It's 
incredibly fatherly.


>The "Eat slugs, Malfoy" spell in the movie bugged me because all of
>the spells (with the notable exception of Voldemort's recorporation
>potion) are in Latin.  While the book doesn't say what Latin term Ron
>used for the slug spell, to be consistent with all of the other
>spells, it would have *had* to have been in Latin.  So I was bothered
>when the movie turned it into English.

I was re-reading CoS, and discovered that the "Eat slugs, Malfoy" line 
actually comes from a different part of the book. I can't give you page 
references, because I seem to have mislaid my copy.
I think it's a pity that they didn't bother to try and engineer a spell for 
Ron to say *after* he threatens Draco with "Eat slugs".