Addressing Frequently Read and Heard Movie Criticisms....

[daughterofthedust]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Diana Williams" <diana at s...> 
wrote:
> From: "daughterofthedust" <daughterofthedust at y...>
> >
> > - people who haven't read the book won't understand the 
significance
> > of The Marauder's, etc...
> >
> > That will be in The Goblet of Fire...Too much exposition equals =
> > craptactular Scooby-Doo ending.  Inferring all this with Lupin's
> > lines, and the nicknames being on the map, etc...Just leaves more
> > (hints) to discover on future viewings of the film.
> >
> 
> Why should it be explained in The Goblet of Fire?  The plot points 
about the
> Marauders - them changing into animagi to keep Lupin company, 
Peter's
> betrayal of them, and the whole prank have nothing to do with the 
plot in
> The Goblet of Fire.  Lupin isn't in GOF, and Sirius' place in it 
is to offer
> Harry advice, not explain what happened in the last year.  "Harry, 
remember
> your DADA teacher last year?  The one who changed into a 
werewolf?  Well,
> what we didn't tell you last year is that we all learned to be 
animagi so
> that we could keep him company - that's why I'm a dog and Peter's 
a rat -
> and your father was a stag, so that Patronus you saw was a 
representation of
> your dad.  Cool, huh?  Oh, and Snape hated me because I tricked 
him into
> going to the Shack when Remus was there and he nearly got killed, 
only James
> saved him, and that's why Snape owes your father a life-debt, and 
that's why
> he keeps saving your life even though he hates you and, in fact, 
the
> Marauders and Snape had an on-going feud.  What's this got to do 
with the 3
> challenges?  Nothing, just thought you might want to know.  Oh, it 
might
> help you figure out that Rita Skeeter is also an unregistered 
animagi, but
> they'll probably cut that from the plot, too, so never mind."
> 
> Diana W.

 See how awkward that would have been at the end of Azkaban?? :-)

Okay, being serious now...Of course it wouldn't all be explained, 
but I'm sure there will be more in Goblet, I've read that soewhere 
in fandom...

But I for one, had I not read the books, would have loved the 
eventual revelation, that would come with multiple viewings, of who 
Wormtail, Prongs, Padfoot, and Moony are and the fact that Lupin can 
read the map, because he helped make it...:-) 

Imagine that "Aha!" moment.

@)--/----
daughter