Minerva McGonagall & The SS Movie Possible Clue? NOT a Coincidence

[snapesmate]

brought over from the HPFGU because it talks about the movie.  I 
thought it too good a point to be lost due to the fact that it 
pertains to the movie aside from comparing movie vs, book...
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <fever264 at A...> wrote:
>     Hi everyone!
> 
>    My apologies if this has already been mentioned, and if this 
also may seem trivial. I know the movie versions and the book 
versions are quite different. 
>    
>     However, J.K. DOES have quite a LARGE amount of input into the 
> movies ,the content is run by her before being filmed. I am fairly 
new to this group, but I find that more attention is paid to certain 
characters over other ones, the same goes for theories.
  Minerva McGonagall doesnt seem to get much credit as being a real 
> key to the whole septology, I feel that she is viewed as a "B LIST" 
> Character.
>   Here is what I actually found while re-watching the Harry Potter 
> & the S.S. American Version ( Not sure if there is even a DIFFERENT 
> English Version of the movies?? Could someone let me know if so??)
> 
>  Anyways, if you throw in your DVD, and if your DVD Player has a 
> timer function that usually begins automatically when the movie 
> starts, well at the 100:41 position of the movie, you will reach 
the 
> scene AFTER Harry is caught flying by McGonagall, and after him and 
> ron walk up to Hermione where she tells harry he "Won't Mess up", 
> because Flying/Quidditch "Is in his blood".
> 
>     The specific scene is where she leads them to the trophy room, 
if 
> at exactly 100:41 you PAUSE/FREEZE the movie, and then ZOOM into 
the 
> NAMES displayed on the GRYFFINDOR QUIDDITCH TROPHY where the names 
> are written, Including "JAMES POTTER" as "Seeker", with the Year 
> marked 1970, if you ZOOM in even closer and to the right, you will 
> very visibly read:
> 
> "M.G. McGonagall" 1971 on the name plate to the right of James 
> Potter. ( To the left of James is "R.J.H. KING 1969" )
> 
> Now, I only brought this up b/c of JK's role on the content of the 
> movies, I think this might of been purposely done. But I could be 
> very wrong.
> 
> Does ANYONE have any theories on this? I dont know off the top of 
my 
> head the exact time lines as to when McGonagall went to school, but 
I 
> do remember her in POA saying how she remembered James and Sirius 
> together at school while she was teaching. 
> 
> I am going out on a limb here, but I do feel that this "insight" 
may 
> have some clues hiding within.
> 
> ** Think of it this way, when reading a Book we are limited by our 
> own minds and creativity as to the structure of a scene (in the 
book) 
> and the details within that scene. No writer ever puts in EVERY 
> single detail as to the layout of every object in a room etc... We 
> simply rely on our own personal interpretation of what we are 
reading 
> and from there we imagine/paint our own personal mental image as to 
> how a scene we are reading would look like.
> 
> The image we use in our own mind is made more accurate when we 
watch 
> the HP movies b/c we relate how harry should look like to the 
actors 
> in the movies? ( We all do it).
> 
> Depending on how you interpret this, one could go as far as call 
this 
> a "Contamination" of the mind b/c we are being given by association 
> an official, realistic/humanistic view of real life actors who play 
> the "character parts" in the movie, which inevitably will "taint" 
our 
> minds when we read the books b/c we will go through a scene with DD 
> and remember Richard Harris.
> 
>  Here is the flaw with ALL of this. How we think, imagine and see 
the 
> actors and events in the books in our own minds is incorrect. The 
> ONLY TRUE interpretation/acting out of the scenes currently ONLY 
lies 
> in the mind of Mrs. JK Rowling.
> 
> That is why I feel the movies are an advantage to the readers, b/c 
JK 
> has input ( and lots of it) as to the plot of the movie (i.e. She 
> walked up to Robbie Coltrane {HAGRID} during the filming of one of 
> the movies and whispered something in his ear relating to an 
upcoming 
> event {or past} of Hagrids life etc... which therefor better helped 
> him play his role) {I understand she did this with many of the 
> actors}.
>  
> The translation of the books to a movie helps us all re-live the 
> scenes in our minds, using specific mental images we have already 
> associated to the books b/c of the movies. 
> 
> J.K.'s input to the movies I feel paints a very DETAILED and CLUE 
> SPECIFIC image of the story ( given that some large parts of the 
book 
> have been left out), is very important to the Observation I made 
> because it just might of been done on purpose.
> 
> 
> I WELCOME ALL Emails, Comments Or (SUB)-Theories, or Disagreements 
to 
> my post, feel free to pick at it in great detail or brainstorm a 
new 
> theory, or if your really confused.
> 
> Frank (Fever264 at A...)

Good catch, I never noticed it before...  nor did I notice that if 
you look at the plaque to the right you can see the last three 
letters of a name, "DLE" then the Hogwarts emblem and then the 
words "for special services to Hogawarts School"!  Gee, I wonder what 
student, whose name ends in "DLE" received this award for maybe 
catching a "giant of a man" (or halfway at the least,LOL!) type 
student who got expelled for allegedly releasing a monster from a 
chamber?

Lynnette, who thinks Snape IS a good guy, even if he is NOT a nice 
guy!