Spiders, Snake, Sarcasm, Sound, Size

[erisedstraeh2002]

I agree with bboy that the spiders are much too small.  Even before I 
read the maze scene in GoF, I had imagined much larger spiders in 
CoS.  Based primarily on what CoS tells us in Ch. 15:  "Spiders the 
size of carthorses, eight-eyed, eight-legged, black, hairy, 
*gigantic.*  The *massive* specimen that was carrying Harry..." (my 
emphases).

May I say again that the Serpensortia snake is also much too small 
(and it should be black, not brown/green!).  It needs to bare its 
fangs at Harry and Justin - this snake isn't big enough to have fangs!

Thanks to c (kesa) for pointing out other examples of Lucius' 
sarcasm.  I still don't like the Lucius-Harry exchange at the end of 
the trailer, but I now don't have a rational explanation for it - 
it's just my gut reaction!

I also agree with those who have said the Howler isn't loud enough.  
CoS says "Mrs. Weasley's yells, a *hundred* times louder than usual, 
made the plates and spoons rattle on the table, and schoed 
deafeningly off the stone walls" (Ch. 6).  There's nothing deafening 
about the Howler in the trailer!

I also agree with Richelle about the unfortunate lack of Harry's 
green eyes in the movie.  IIRC, no one mentions how Harry looks like 
his father and has his mother's eyes in the first movie, and I think 
this is a real oversight given how the plot unfolds in PoA.

Someone asked about the Slytherin beater - I'll have to watch the 
trailer again, but I thought that was Fred or George trying to get 
the rogue bludger away from Harry.

On Hagrid's size - I think the first movie was very inconsistent on 
this.  In some scenes, Coltrane towers over others (I'm thinking of 
when Hagrid and Harry are walking through London on their way to 
Diagon Alley and when they are in the train station) while in other 
scenes (primarily at Hogwarts) Coltrane looks almost normal-size. I 
agree with bboy that they could be doing a much better job with this.

~Phyllis
who should probably *not* watch these movies!