Messrs M, W, P & P

[dowen331]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
> Something which surprised me (I have been unforgivably *S-L-O-W*!) 
is that 
> it took eight viewings of the movie for me to realise that the PoA 
movie 
> *completely* misses any identification of James, Sirius & co as the 
authors 
> of the Map or that all four of them became Animagi at the same 
time, or 
> that there was any connection between these elements, or that they 
were 
> connected in any way to Lupin's lycanthropy.

>(large snip of excellent discourse) 
> --
> GulPlum AKA Richard, ending this a bit abruptly but wanting to get 
it out 
> before leaving home for five days

I very much appreciated your thoughts on why the animagi explanations 
could be put off to the next movie, and agree with you on the danger 
of too much information getting put into one scene.  (Watching the 
LOTR film commentaries has taught me alot about the decisions 
directors and screenwriters must make!)

However, with the elimination of the MWPP explanation, there was one 
glaring hole for me in the POA movie.  When Harry produced his 
patronus, there was no explanation given that his father had been a 
stag animagi.  As I recall, there was reference that he thought he 
saw his father, but you never learned the significance of the stag.  
For that matter, they only showed the stag once; the other patronus 
shots were that "shield" effect.  I thought that was a major flaw in 
the film, since that makes the whole patronus thing so much more 
emotional.

And by the way (picking up from another thread), I too was really 
upset that so many of Harry's lines were given to Hermione.  She did 
all the thinking and he got dragged along.  What a twisting of the 
characters!

DebbieO