Who blew the house up (Was:Who Was That Robed Man, Anyway? (PS)

[torillgrnhaug]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Annalisa Moretti" <grianne2 at y...>
wrote:
 
> The thing I find odd about the black figure myself is not simply what 
> others have stated, that it's turning away from Lily, because, like 
> several posters, I can explain that away quite easily. The first 
> thing which I find strange about it is the way in which it moves. The 
> whole sequence has been slowed down for effect by the filmmakers, but 
> Voldemort in particular moves very slowly; and this figure does not. 


I'm sorry, but I don't think this means very much. Just like the
sleeve thing, this appears to me to be just another of those little
details us fans cling to when we try to figure out what happened in
the past, since Rowling is so secretive. The difference in pacing of
the film may be nothng more than just a thing made for the effect by
the filmmakers. 

 But what *I* find 
> strange is that I don't see any white sleeve at all in this figure 
> here.
 I agree. It would have been very slim evidence even if the white
sleeve was there, but I quite frankly can't see it either. 



> But there is one major problem with this whole idea, unfortunately. I 
> don't think it really is able to stand on its own UNLESS what has 
> been mentioned in passing -- that J. K. Rowling supposedly "oversaw" 
> filming of this sequence -- is true. Because I have not been able to 
> find ANYTHING which states this at all.
> 
> This is what I've found:
> 
> http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?3454
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_1594000/1594156.stm
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_1664000/1664714.stm
> (There was also a CNN article that was supposed to have mentioned to 
> it linked on TLC but the article seems to have disappeared from the 
> website.)
> 
> None of these articles state that the sequence was "overseen" by 
> Rowling. They state that she *wrote* the scene (which I think, 
> furthermore, actually means that she wrote the source material for 
> the scene, that is, a scene which was intended for the book but which 
> was edited about and which she gave to Steve Kloves to incorporate 
> into the script).

Good research job!! I also remember Rowling saying that she rewrote
the first chapter of PS a lot of times, each time taking something
out,because she realized she had given away too much of the plot in
the opening chapter already. I seriously doubt she would let a lot of
very vital plot information be displayed in the first film already
then. Now that I have thought about it, I think that the only strange
thing here is the fact that the house was not blown up by the green
light that must have been the Avada Kadavra that took away Voldemort's
power - we see him  pointing at Harry just before we see the green
light shining out through the windows from the inside of the house.
The attempted murder on Harry happpened inside the house then. But we
know from canon that the Avada Kadavra doesn't blow up houses, it only
kills people. So who or what blew the house up after Voldemort lost
his powers????

Torill

Torill