Foreshadowing in PoA

[bgrugin]

My family just finished watching the 3rd movie (we've been watching 
all of them - what else do you do when you're sick?), and I started 
thinking about what JKR said about the 3rd film and how something in 
it foreshadowed someting coming up in a later book.  I also remember 
discussions about how Remus and Sirius both discuss how much Harry's 
eyes resemble Lily's, and I also remember discussions about Snape 
throwing himself in front of HRH when facing Remus the Werewolf 
(although I never bought into that one - Snape had already proved he 
would do what it takes to help Harry in SS/PS when he tried to help 
Harry stay on his broomstick).

BUT here's something I caught that I'm not sure has ever been brought 
up before - after Harry falls off the broom when the dementors show 
up at the Quidditch match, one of the players says something about 
Harry not looking very good, and someone else says something 
about, "Well, he fell about 100 feet; you wouldn't look so good 
either if you fell from the *astronomy tower*." (That's a paraphrase -
 I didn't write it down, and it's been a few hours since I watched 
it).  But that really caught my attention - I wonder if THAT'S what 
she was talking about (with DD, of course).

Speaking of this film (since Cuaron's been discussed so much lately), 
I actually did enjoy it, but I had three big quarrels with it:

1.  I hated that they left out the Quidditch match where Draco and 
his goons pretend to be dementors - that would have been a GREAT 
scene - I remember looking so forward to seeing Harry blast them away 
with the patronus charm.

2.  Would it have been so hard to have Remus or Sirius say SOMETHING 
about the map to explain that they had written it and who the 
nicknames referred to?  It would've added, oh, say, two minutes to 
the film?  For people who never read the book (like my husband), it 
just left a lot out for him to understand it - I remember having to 
explain so much to him after the film was over.

3.  And a small, but annoying one - I HATE what they did to poor 
Flitwick - and he's looked like that ever since.  YUCH!!!

Okay, enough rambling - just curious what people think about the 
astronomy tower line....

MusicalBetsy, who's feeling much better, and will remember what Missy 
wrote for NEXT Christmas - and I'll bet that I will appreciate 
everything next year - as long as I'm enjoying it in an upright 
position :)