[HPFGU-Movie] 3rd time's a charm- I've finally got some questions

[Michelle Chandler]

Lauren,

Regarding the parents: Priori Incantatem shows a shadow of the last spell performed, then the next-to-last, and on like that. So James and Lily would be shown at the moment they died.

The mermaid: that was meant to be a hint to Harry about the egg. She had more play in the book.

The hostages: I thought they looked like wax images and were terribly cheesy. Very disappointing.

Michelle, who is going to see it a second time next Thursday!
"He who follows truth too closely at the heels might get kicked in the teeth."
-Sir Walter Ralegh 1552-1618
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: laurenmcoakley 

  Maybe this is a stupid one, but I was wondering, for the Priori 
  Incantatem, why were Harry's parents older than they have been when we 
  have seen them in earlier films?  In the Mirror of Erised (CoS), his 
  parents were youthful, as if they were the age that they were when 
  they died. Maybe I'm missing what the Priori Incantatem is?

  What was the deal with the mermaid in the stained glass window that 
  was animated in the prefects bathroom?  Was there a purpose to her in 
  the book that I have forgotten?  Or was she just a piece of obligatory 
  CGI, like it seems to me?  She bugged me because she was distracting 
  from the cuteness of Myrtle teasing Harry, and him discovering the 
  clue.

  And to make a comment- I loved the second task, my only quibble with 
  it is the "precious things" to be saved.  They looked a little scary, 
  like they were dead or something.  I didn't even recognize Hermione, 
  or Cho.  When I read the book, I imagined them to be sweetly sleeping-
  like, heads lolled to the side, gently bobbing in the currents, 
  dribbles of bubbles escaping their mouths like itty snores.  (I think 
  it was described pretty closely to that!) This scene gave me a bit of 
  a jolt.

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