Fun with your new PoA DVD

[Tyler Hewitt]

One thing I enjoy about dvd's is being able to pause, advance frame by frame, and zoom 
in while maintaiining a clear picture. I put this to good use last night with the PoA dvd. 
There's a lot going on in the background of this movie, and small details are well thought 
out.  Not surprising, as the same is true of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien'. Now that PoA is on dvd, I 
can actually catch some of the details.

I was watching the PoA dvd, and during the scene in Lupin's class with the boggart, when 
the boggart is changing from Snape to a spider, it looked like another face (not Snape's) 
appeared in the whirling blob of boggart. So I backed up, and advanced frame by frame. 
Sure enough, another face appears briefly. It's all kind of blurry, but it looks like it's 
surrounded by long, curly, red hair. I thought of Mrs. Weasley, but it also looks like this 
face has long, stained teeth, and possibly a moustache (I'm not sure about that). The face 
fades fairly quickly, the boggart blob turns golden in color, and vaguely resembles a 
snitch. Interesting, and given JKR's comments about things in the film forshadowing 
events in future books, fun to wonder about. It all passes by so quickly, however, that it's 
probably not important. Any guesses as to whose face that might be?

Also interesting was the scene in the infirmary when Hermione activates the time turner. 
As time starts reversing, lots of blurry figures speed around in the background. Taken 
frame by frame, we see that those figrues mostly follow recent events in the story. We see 
Harry lying on a bed, Hermione by his side. We see Ron in his bed, Snape standing over 
him (Snape would have brought him to the infirmary). A housekeeper flits about, someone 
else arrives in bandages and is 'unwrapped' and put into bed. It also looks like the 
housekeeper and a student are dancing.

Any one else notice anything ineresting lurking in the backgrounds in PoA?