Comments on the trailer

[Dave Hardenbrook]

ickle_ronniekins wrote:
HMyc> 2. Why did the car have to be in front of the train? I like the humor
HMyc> of the situation but aren't Harry and Ron supposed to be keeping out 
HMyc> of sight up above?

Yeah, but a train chase makes "better television" (or movies in this
case)...

HMyc> 4. Who's that lying petrified guy? Obviously not Nearly Headless
HMyc> Nick -- too opaque. Not Colin -- black hair. Penelope and Hermione 
HMyc> are girls. Justin is the only possibility left, but I think he's too 
HMyc> big and adult-looking for a 12-year old.

Is Justin a second-year?  I thought he was older...

HMyc> 5. The writing on the wall -- this was pointed out before on the-
HMyc> leaky-cauldron.org: it's too high for Ginny, the letters are red 
HMyc> instead of silver, and the childish writing is a bit of a giveaway.

As has been pointed out, it could be levitation... And not even that
is necessary -- Just do _Wingardium Leviosa_ on the brush...

HMyc> 6. I really think that the Gray Lady, being given much exposure in 
HMyc> the movies, will play some important role in the later books.

I missed seeing her in the Trailer... Where does she appear?

Draco382 wrote:
HMyc> Okay, anyway, I have
HMyc> one question.  I don't remember that scene with the dinosaur bones 
HMyc> collapsing...can anyone refresh my memory and tell me where that 
HMyc> happens in CoS?  (I don't have the book at home with me...)

Nothing in the books about this, but it's established in the first
film that this skeleton is in the DADA classroom (check the scene
when McGonnegal pulls Oliver Wood out of class to introduce his
"new seeker"), so I'm making a wild guess that the Cornish Pixies
ravage it.

<Begin "Hermione" mode>

BTW, I think it's a dragon skeleton, not a dinosaur's... Though
they certainly seem to be suggesting that dragons and dinosaurs
are related... The dragon skeleton has a classic "archosaur" skull
(two holes behind the eye socket and one in front), and otherwise
resembles a sort of membrane-winged "raptor".

<End "Hermione" mode>

-- 
Dave