[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Another observation worth mentioning...

[Sue Wartell]

--- Crystal Williams <crystal_of_ravenclaw at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> > Lauren
> 
> geebsy asks:
> Can anyone explain about that scene.  I liked the
> way Fred asks 
> Angelina to the ball, but why were all those people
> together, what 
> were they doing and why was Snape monitering them. 
> (One of Alan's 
> funniest moments by the way--I loved how he tucked
> up his sleeves and 
> when after Ron and Harry).  I thought they might all
> be in the 
> library but it doesn't explain Snape, or why
> Hermione gives him her 
> work.  Can't possibly be detention--could it--NOOO
> not Hermione.
> 
> Roxane
>    
>    
>   Crystal:
>    
>   Yea I also loved the way Fred asked I would have
> definitly have said yes. I'm not sure either where
> they are and what they were doing. I don't think it
> could have been class because Fred and George are in
> their year and I don't think it was detention with
> all those people... and I have no idea why snape is
> there... I think the sceen was done that way to be
> funny. 
> 
> 
> 
I may have gotten the atributions above mixed up 0
sorry if I did that.

I had rather assumed it was study hall - a period
during the school day when students who don't have a
specfic class to attend can sit and work on
homework/school projects.  It is (or was) a fairly
common part of the secondary education schedule when I
was in high school (nearly 40 years ago.)  It tended
to be characterized by kids goofing off and a teacher
patrolling to keep the goofing off under control. (I
couldn't ever get any work done there, so I'd take
advantage of bein in the Library club to go to the
library and shelve - and read - books.)  Mixed grades
were not uncommon.  Don't know how common it is these
days, or how common it ever was outside my part of the
US.  It's never appeared in the books - in fact the
sixth years in HBP are explicitly left to their own
devices between scheduled classes.  I think comic
effect was the main goal.  

I loved the twins in this scene, but personally I
thought Snape's behavior was way out of line with his
character.  He can be mean and nasty, but he has
always been physically aloof, and having him wandering
around smacking kids just didn't fit my conception of
the character at all.  My impression of the character
as Rickman portrays him is that he avoids any form of
connection - including physical contact - with others.
 I haven't seen the movies nearly as often as many of
you, though, so that may be my bias from my reading of
the books coloring what I remember from the films.

Sue, in Ohio

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