[HPFGU-Movie] My comments on CoS (long!)

[Richelle Votaw]

Calliope wrote:

> Yep, yep.  And Ron's "Scabbers!" comment reminds us who Scabbers is - I wanted
> to yell "Throw him out!  He's an Animagus!  Aah!"

Exactly!  I wanted him to toss him back to the car!

> Daniel looked rather - handsome - sitting there in his Quidditch gear, didn't
> he?  I thought right before that, the Draco/Ron confrontation fell rather flat. > Everyone just *stood there* - in the book there was an indignant uproar.  All 
> we saw was DR's eyes getting big, and then a big pause before Ron cursed Draco.

Mmm, yes, the nonresponse.  Harry's eyes, I thought, were just as they should be.  He shouldn't have a big reaction, since he doesn't have a clue what a mudblood is.  Just that in the general conversation it didn't sound very nice.  The rest of the team, well, they could've been cardboard cut outs for that part all the reactions they had!

> Another added line that was actually funny.  Though I wish they'd explained
> *why* Ron hates spiders (b/c one of the twins turned his teddy bear into a
> spider when he was little) so he didn't seem so wimpy.  Ron is NOT a wimp!

While it does certainly give us ample evidence as to Ron's fear of spiders (though neglecting to mention *why* as you pointed out), I don't think it really makes him look like a wimp.  Some people are, for whatever reason, deathly afraid of various things.  I am terrified of cockroaches.  Why?  They can't hurt me, I'm bigger than them, etc.  I just hate them.  If I were asked to follow hundreds of cockroaches into a forest (or anywhere, for that matter) where they progressively get larger and eventually are much larger than me, I would run the other way.  I think Ron showed his true Gryffindor nature (courage) by going into the forest with Harry.  Courage is the ability to face fear, and that is just what Ron did.  As terrified as he was the entire time, he went.  Okay, that's my Ron defense for the night. :)

> Yep!  Very cute.  Those warbly "Harry?"'s were hilarious.  Ron's freaking out,
> and Harry's calmly carrying on a conversation with a giant spider.  The 
> contrast was funny.

Yes!  Harry's true grace under fire while Ron, well, I don't know that he was very aware of the conversation at all, considering the surroundings!

Okay, that's it for tonight!  I'm still not sure what my favorite part is (though it was easy to find my least favorite!), perhaps after another viewing tomorrow I'll know.  My mom plans on watching it with me tomorrow, that should be interesting!

Richelle


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