[HPFGU-Movie] Amandageist's review

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Amanda wrote:
>>I fail to understand why it helped this movie to have things like a
welcoming choir, at the expense (assuming time was the factor) of critical
plot material:<<

The choir was far too short for it to really effect anything else in the 
plot. I thought it added a little bit of atmosphere, making Hogwarts feel more 
like a school.

>>--nobody mentions that Snape also knew Lupin and Black at school<<
Yes, but its clear that they know each other, and from Snape's words about 
James (in the hallway scene), its an easy leap to guess they were classmates 
(since he talks about James at school, and not quite in a teacher-student way).

>>--nobody mentions why Lupin knows the map is a map<<
So? Do they need to? Like I said in a previous post, if Fred and George 
figured it out, then why is it implausible that anyone else could? Its only because 
we know there's more backstory does it seem like the backstory is needed.

>>--the only mention of the the wolfsbane potion was in a shouted comment by
Sirius, when he was restraining Lupin; audience is left thinking Dumbledore
really *did* put the school at risk by having a werewolf on staff with no
means of controlling it.<<
But the potion was mentioned, so the audience doesn't have to think that.

>>--why did Snape appear at the Willow hard on the heels of Lupin? there was
no explanation of why he was following him<<
Yes, that didn't make sense at all. As far as the movie goes, its like Snape 
saw Lupin taking off outside and just decided to start stalking him.

>>--there was no explanation of why Snape hated Black so; this is a bit
crucial to the plot, and the character development of both.<<
That they hate each other is important to the plot, but *why* isn't that 
necessary (from a movie point of view at least). The prank is not the only reason 
they hate each other anyway, they hated each other LONG before that, and for 
reasons not much deeper than why Harry and Draco hate each other (different 
people who got off on the wrong foot, then it grew sourly from there, like most 
schoolage enemies).

>>--why did Prongs appear when Dying!Harry saw it, but not when Later!Harry
was casting the spell?<<
I guess it was just the angle of the camera. Sort of odd though.

>>--why did Prongs appear at *all*, if they cut everything else out about the
Map and the history of the Marauders?<<
Because Patronus' take a form. Harry didn't think to himself "hmm, my 
father's animagus is a stag, so I should do a stag patronus." It just happened (like 
Hermione's less-significant otter form, or Cho's swan form). Yes, the 
significance is not explained, but if Prongs hadn't appeared then people would be 
complaining about *that*.

>>I didn't think the substitution of the corridor encounter for Snape's 
office
was effective. Nothing about the dialogue, but it's so out of character for
Snape NOT to dock Gryffindor points for Harry being out of bed at night,
much less to not give him a detention for insulting him (even if it was just
the map).<<
I agree with you there. Snape let him go *far* too easily. 


-Rebecca


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