WorkoutDan and Study Hall

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "alchemillalady"
<alchemillalady at a...> wrote:
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> ...
> 
> I heard the Study Hall scene being called'homework club'...?
> Actually I  found it believeable that Snape would forcefully 
> redirect their heads to their books, but smacking them was too
> far out of character. I think Mike Newell's attempt to convey 
> the British Boarding school environment included the notion 
> that these closed environments could be rather brutal. ...
> 
> --alchemilla
>

bboyminn:

Before we fly of the handle, let's look at what Snape hit them with.
He hit them with a 'Theme Book' which is essentially a tablet of
paper. Which in turn means, it was about as dangerous as getting hit
with a rolled up magazine. I'm sure that it caused very little pain
and certainly no damage. It was more of an attention getter than any
kind of brutal or sadistic punishment. 

Someone else mentioned that they couldn't understand the 'study halls'
at all, thinking that studying should have been done in their
respective commons rooms. However, we have see this same scene of a
general study room in other movies and even in the books. In the
books, when the weather was really bad, student took their breaks
studying in a general common room rather than standing in the court yard.

Just a couple of thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn