Harry and the Hand of Glory

[bohcoo]

Hollydaze wrote:

>there is one other thing that puzzles me about the deletion of this
>scene and it puzzled me the very first time I saw the film, why did
>they favour the scene with Harry and the Hand of Glory OVER the scene
>of him hiding from the Malfoys? It seemed like a bit of a strange
>choice unless there is a reason behind it. There are certain other
>scenes like this in the movie, where something 'insignificant' has
>been favoured over something that seems to be more important
>(although the others are a lot more subtle) and it just seems
>interesting when taken with JK and Kloves' comment on the interview
>about there being a certain aspect of the books that JK said HAD to
>be included for something else to make sense later in the series.

My take:
Yes, yes, yes! Hollydaze, I, too, watched the movie (COS) with that 
information in mind, especially when something in the movie just 
didn't make sense, or, was different from the book and driven home by 
a sledge hammer. (Draco being a thief, Ron's cruelty in the Chamber 
towards an incapacitated Lockhart, affection for Hagrid in the final 
scene, etc.)

One of the biggest things that hit me in COS -- did anyone else 
notice the way Harry kept touching everyone's hands all the way 
through the movie?  First, he slipped his hand into the Hand of 
Glory, then he held hands with Hermoine in the hospital, later he 
kept touching Ginny's hand in the Chamber to see if she had died -- 
not once but a couple of times, and so on. None of this hand-
holding/touching was in the book -- yet, for me, there seemed to have 
been a big emphasis placed on it in the movie. 

Did these things HAVE to be there for some reason? Is there some 
magic in Harry's touch we are supposed to be foreshadowed about?

Bohcoo