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[justcarol67]

Jade B wrote:
<snip>
>   As for Neville's scene, I'm thinking it was a fix it. I never
understood what they were doing in the 4th film when Karkarov said
that Barty Crouch Jr. took part in the torture of the Longbottoms. I
thought it was just Bellatrix or was there more than just one?
Arrgghh
I'm rereading book 6 and I'm forgetting about book 5 already.
<snip>

Carol:
Barty Jr. *did* take part in the torture of the Longbottoms (though
the GoF film combined that scene with Karkaroff's snitching on his
fellow DEs and confused the picture somewhat). Barty's treatment of
Neville when he's posing as Mad-eye Moody, Crucioing the spider in
front of him and prolonging both the spider's agony and the boy's, is
just plain sick and sadistic, but it's explained by his having been
one of the torturers of Neville's parents thirteen or so years before. 

The then-nineteen-year-old Barty wasn't alone, of course, in this
cruel action. Bellatrix was the ringleader and her husband, Rololphus
and his brother Rabastan, also took part in the torture. You might
want to reread GoF as the GoF film condensed and simplified the Barty
Jr. backstory and his connection to the Longbottoms and left out the
Lestranges altogether. (They aren't named until OoP and it's never
clear which of the two men in the Pensieve scene is Rodolphus and
which is Rabastan since the focus is on young Barty and mad, arrogant
Bellatrix, Voldie's most loyal follower.)

Jade B:
>   I cannot stress how much I like Alan Rickman. I'm on pins and
needles with this next film when he has the guts to kill Dumbledore.
Gives me chills thinking about it. <snip>

Carol:
If only he were twenty years younger and not so saggy in the jowls!
But, yes, I can't wait for the Spinner's End segment (Narcissa
shedding tears on his chest, chains of fire binding his wand hand to
hers) and the overheard conversation with Draco and Sectumsempra and
snippets of the argument in the forest, but I'm terrified of the tower
scene. "The Flight of the Prince" ought to be excellent, though! With
luck, the Prince's book ought to feature more Snape than we've seen
since the first film. And, please, let's film Rickman's scenes before
he gets a day older. (Sorry, Alan. I'm getting older, too, but I'm not
out there playing a witch in her mid-to-late thirties.)

Please, Kloves and Yates, get it right!

Carol, trusting Rickman to leave the depiction of Snape deliciously
ambiguous, AK or no AK, but still, like you, on pins and needles