Spoiler; CoS script non-sequiturs

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Definitely
spoilers
in
this
one
...
you
have
been
warned!


Two script non-sequiturs stood out this time around. First, during the
duelling scene, Snape recommends that Lockhart should teach the students
how to block unfriendly spells, then Harry and Malfoy are called
forward...but no spell-blocking instructions are given.

Second, in Hagrid's hut, when Harry and Ron are under the cloak and
Dumbledore is removed from office; in the book, I believe Dumbledore says
the bit about he won't be gone from Hogwarts as long as there are people
loyal to him there, and that help will always be given to those who ask.

In the movie, they missed out the bit about loyalty to Dumbledore in his
speech in the hut, though Harry says it in the Chamber to Tom Riddle. They
did include Dumbledore saying that help would always be given. There should
have been a payoff to that line in the Chamber; all that it would have
taken would be Harry saying 'help me, someone, please', when confronted
with the Basilisk; which I believe he did say in the book; but not in the
movie.

I also thought that, if I hadn't read CoS, I would not have understood
about Lockhart taking the credit for the deeds of other wizards in his
books. Reference was made to it in the final confrontation between Harry,
Ron and Lockhart, but it hadn't been set up well enough to make sense. They
really took too much out of the Flourish and Blotts scene.

Also noticed that Tom Riddle *didn't blink* throughout the Chamber scene.

Regards,
Nicholas