Sorting order/The second task

[xandersgirl18]

re: the second task

The underwater effects are really not all that difficult. Look at 
Titanic, Lord of the Rings, and more recently Pirates of the 
Carribean. They've done them on TV with the use of water tanks on 
studio lots. They can do crazy things with CGI and make it 
beliveable. Besides, they could film the scene 'wet on dry' which is 
basically the actors standing against a blue screen and the water is 
added around them. That was done in "The Fellowship of the Ring" 
when Sam is drowning underwater (at the end of the film). 

I really don't see the point of cutting out the second task. Steve 
Kloves should use the three tasks as tentpoles in the script. And 
they need the Yule Ball for boy-girl action which was one of the 
reasons Mike Newell was hired (because apparently he's good at 
capturing burgeoning hormones on-screen). The Yule Ba ll is part of 
the Triwizard Tournament. I think that's what the movie is going to 
focus on the most. The Quidditch World Cup will be the big Quidditch 
Game of the movie, but they'll probably cut most of that out. The 
outline for GoF should look like this:

Prologue- Harry's Dream
1. Dursleys
   + The Letter
   + Fred and George use the Ton-Tongue Toffee on Dudley.
2. Qudditch World Cup Game
   + Meet Charlie and Bill
   + Viktor Krum
   + Ludo Bagman
   + Mr. Crouch
   + Winky
3. Dark Mark
4. Start-of-Term Feast
   + Triwizard Tournament Announcement
   + Mad Eye Moody 
5. DADA & The Unforgivables 
   + Neville's reaction
6. Hermione & SPEW
7. Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrive, The GoF picks Viktor Krum, 
Fleur Delacour, Cedric Diggory and Harry as School Champions.
8. Harry and Ron fight, Potter Stinks badges, Draco curses 
Hermione's teeth, Rita Skeeter is introduced (They could cut 
the "Weighing of the Wands" out).
9. The First Task
   + Hagrid "tells" Harry he's facing Dragons
   + Hermione helps Harry research, Shippy gossip is started up     
between the two. 
   + Harry uses the Summoning Charm on the Horntail
   + Ron & Harry make up
10. Harry learns that Winky and Dobby are working at Hogwarts and 
that Ludo Bagman is a "bad wizard". 
11. The Yule Ball
   + Harry asks Cho Chang, Ron asks Fleur but both are turned down.
   + Ron realizes Hermione is a girl, asks her to the ball "as a 
last resort", but Hermione is already going. Harry and Ron end up 
with the Patil twins.
   + When Viktor and Hermione show up together, Ron is furious and 
snaps jealously at Hermione all night and later the two "have a 
blazing row" in the common room.
   + Percy Weasley shows up in Mr. Crouch's place. 
   + Harry and Ron learn that Karkaroff and Snape "are on a first 
name basis" and that Hagrid is half-giant. 
12. Rita Skeeter's article reveals Hagrid is half-giant and he tries 
to quit Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione yell at her in Hogsmeade 
about the article, and Rita threatens Hermione. 
13. The Second Task
   + After taking Cedric's advice, Harry takes his golden egg to the 
Prefect's Bathroom and discovers that he'll have to take "what he'll 
miss most" back from the Merpeople at the bottom of the Lake. He 
also gets caught up in a run-in with Snape, Filch, and Mad-Eye 
Moody. 
   + Harry struggles to find underwater defenses, but it's Dobby who 
comes to his last minute rescue with the aid of gillyweed. 
   + Harry rescues Ron first, tries to rescue Hermione, Cho, and 
Fleur's litle sister, Gabrielle, but only manages Ron and Gabrielle. 
   + Harry emerges from the second task tied with Cedric.
14. Sirius meets with the Trio. Rita Skeeter paints Hermione as 
a "scarlet woman" and Harry and Krum find a near-death Mr. Crouch.
15. Harry dreams of Voldemort in Divination, visits Dumbledore and 
stumbles into his Pensieve. Snape is revealed to be a former DE. 
Harry learns that Crouch threw his own son in Azkaban and that 
Neville's parents are in St. Mungo's. 
16. The Third Task
   + Harry prepares with Ron and Hermione
   + Harry and Cedric take the cup together, find it's a portkey to 
a graveyard.
   + Cedric is killed and Harry's blood is used in Voldemort's 
restoration ritual. 
   + Voldemort's Death Eaters return. Lucius Malfoy among them. 
   + Harry and Voldemort duel, their wands connect and Voldemort's 
victims emerge from his wand encouraging him to hold on. Harry's 
parents tell him to use the portkey back. Cedric tells him to take 
his body back to his parents. Harry escapes using the Summoning 
Charm. 
17. Mad Eye Moody is revealed to be Barty Crouch, Jr. Dumbledore 
questions him under the use of Vertiserum. He is later adminstered 
the "Dementor's Kiss". 
18. Dumbledore and Cornelius Fudge "part ways". Dumbledore informs 
the student body that Voldemort is back. 



How does that sound? 


Susan :o)