Shrunken Heads, Hunchbacks and Dumbledores

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> Making Tom the 
> innkeeper a hunchback _was_ about the most foolish thing in PoA,
> though.  I was waiting for him to tell Harry to "walk this way..."
> Then we could have had Dan Radcliffe doing "Hang on!  If I could
walk

mae now:
I know your reference, Young Frankenstein, and I thought the same
thing.  Can you believe nobody stopped him from doing that?  I can't
believe nobody had enough sense to say, "whoa, what a minute, we can't
do this, it's silly!"

> I really wished they'd included the bit with him, Fudge
> and Snape in the hospital wing, though.  

mae again:
I agree with that.  I think the movie was good, but really lacked
many of the critical parts of the book.  I think the 1st and 2nd movie
stayed more faithful to the books.  I think the 3rd movie was more
artistic, but needed more of the HP world than we got to see.  Now if
a movie had both of those elements...(maybe GoF will!)  I know the
movies for are for those who haven't read the books, but they are also
for the ones who have.  Those who have are the crowd who will see the
movie more than once.  I think someone posted that Cuaron didn't read
the books until after directing the movie (a little backwards there),
and if that's true, that's just wrong!
 
> I see that Gambon is on for GoF, at least according to IMDB, and I
> trust we see a good deal more of Dumbledore in that--it certainly
> seems to me he has some crucial bits, no matter how much they cut.

mae:
I think your right.  With Hogwart's hosting the tri-wizard, they will
have to have him in a great many scenes.

> 
> I can't see either Harris or Gambon as the Dumbledore of the battle
in
> the Ministry in OoP, though...apparating in and turning the tide for
> the Order, then confronting You-Know-Who...perhaps Gambon will grow
> into it by the time OoP is filmed.

mae:
Really?  I could have seen Harris doing it because one doesn't need to
be physically powerful to be a good wizard.  I guess I'll get used to
Gambon, but that voice that Richard Harris had....