GoF highlights (and OotP observations)

[myrrh321]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Richard <hp at p...> wrote:
>
> Saundra wrote:
> 
> >Favorite scenes: Too many to reiterate here. But heres some (not in
> >any order):
> >
> >1. Harry entering the Weasley tent at QWC the look on his face and 
the 
> >quote "I love magic!"
> 
> I wasn't so keen on that line the first time I saw the movie, and 
cringe at 
> every subsequent viewing when it comes up. One of the things not 
only I, 
> but several others, liked about PoA was that magic had 
become "normal": we 
> didn't have a huge explosion (notably in the music, but also 
visually) 
> almost every time something magical happened.
> 
> Harry's got used to being around magic and accepts it as part of 
his life. 
> This movie undoes that achievement, not only with that line 
(completely 
> OOC, IMO), 

Hello...gotta add my 2c

The line of  Harry saying " I love Magic" is not completely OOC. In 
the book, the corresponding line is: 'Harry bent down, ducked under 
the tent flap, and *felt his jaw drop.*' Yes, Harry is used to magic 
but he is not beyond being put in awe or suprised by it, and that is 
what that movie line conveyed and translated from the book line very 
nicely IMO. I like that the line was spoken instead of what could 
have been done, such as some goofy bug eyed mouth gaped mugging...

I didn't notice the soundtrack as much as I did POA's (which I loved) 
so I don't know if I agree that every magical moment was met with an 
explosion of music.(Time for another viewing!...lol) In POA, I think 
that Harry certainly was not so used to/passe about magic that he 
viewed the hippogriff, monster book of monsters,dementors, werewolf 
Lupin, the knight bus, time turner, the maurader's map etc, 
as 'normal'. Too, remember his line to Hermione after seeing his past 
self, before being told about the time turner "That's not Normal!"  
And the music introducing each of those elements was quite 
distinctive...and wonderful IMHO.  Come to think of it, I don't think 
I would like the books/movies so much if they ever started making 
magic seem "normal"...

End of my 2c transmission
DeNece