Another Review

[jjpandy]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Laura" <metslvr19 at y...> wrote:

> "-show Patronuses (Patroni?) how they're supposed to look, as 
> animals.  I was incredibily dissapointed the first time I saw Harry 
> do the spell.  Then, it was if, at the end of the movie, someone 
> poked either the director or the screenwriter and said, "psst, 
> that's not how it works."  So they randomly threw in the stag image 
> in the last scene, leaving people like us disconcerted and people 
> who hadn't read the books wondering what the heck that was all 
about 
> it and why it never appeared in previous scenes where the Patronus 
> was conjured.  (Or maybe the special effects guy is just a Potter 
> fan and took it upon himself to add that without consulting anyone 
> else, in which case I applaud him.  =P)"
> 
> > -Laura

Laura, I will only respond to one of your comments.  Harry's Patronus 
finally took corporeal form because he was finally fighting real 
dementors (instead of boggarts) AND he had the huge emotional 
rush/incentive to make it work this time - thus a more powerful 
Patronus.  I believe Hermione also says to Harry (while waiting for 
his "dad" to appear) that a Patronus takes " a really powerful 
wizard" which foreshadows Harry's talent because he then produces 
that wonderful Patronus.  Also, in the book, we do not know the shape 
of Harry's Patronus until that scene as well.  In the book, the shape 
was left a mystery to us after Harry sent one at the dementors who 
were really Malfoy and company (although Lupin was shaken by what he 
saw which in retrospect meant that at least he saw the formation 
of "Prongs" that no one else did).

Respectfully,
JJPandy (who loves both the book AND the movie for what they are)