SPOILER: Lucius and the Curse

[Steve]

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>  BARBARA:
> > The writer/director missed a golden opportunity to "get in
> > Lucius' head" by not inserting a simple line telling
> > us/Harry/Dobby  "_I_ decide if you go free. _I_ decided if
> > you live or die."  


>  Christi:
> This is, of course, the problem with this interpretation: it's 
> unclear who Lucius is actually aiming for.  We only have Dobby's 
> line "You shall not harm Harry Potter" to give us any sort of 
> direction on this point.  But on the whole, I find this notion a lot 
> less problematic than the alternative.
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> ~Christi

bboy_mn adds:

How about if Lucius said something like...

Lucius glares at Dobby, "You will die for this Dobby." Then turns and
holds Harry in an icy cold glare, "...and you Potter, you wil pay for
this." He draws his wand back and begins to incant the killing curse,
but Dobby knocks him back and stops him.

"You shall not harm Harry Potter," Dobby replies with fierce
determination.

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Dobby shows more concern for Harry's safety than he does for his own
life. Lucuis has a reason for the AK curse and is also threatening
Harry at the same time.

I think if nothing else, this points out that a little forethought and
a few more minutes of movie time, and these things could have been
easily solved. 

I still say (see 'Just Saw it.' post# 4069 & 4073) that they were
doomed by there obcession with compressing the movie into 2hrs
30minutes. I think they should have view this more as a grand epic
adventure and expanded it as much as it took to give us that sense of
a grand adventure and detailed plot. 

In reality, to do justice to any of these movies, they really need to
take TWO years to produce each one and make them into a really long
movie or make them into two parts. Maybe release one on the 15th of
Nov and release the next on the 15th of Dec and let them run concurrently.

Just my opinion.

bboy_mn