[HPFGU-Movie] Spoiler; CoS script non-sequiturs

[Jeremy Davis]

Nicholas
> 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.
Yep, spotted that one myself. Perhaps Malfoy anf Potter were supposed to be
just plain and simply disobedient.

> 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've only seen the film one, but I'm pretty sure Dumbledore stared at them
in the invisibility cloak and said it then........ ???????

Jeremy