Helen McCrory to play Narcissa in HBP

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
 
> While I didn't like the shrunken heads, either (particularly the 
> very un-British Caribbean accent of the one on the Knight Bus), 
> I think that Cuaron may have gotten the idea from the CoS film, 
> in which Harry peers into a jar of shrunken heads (silent and 
> dead) in a glass jar in borgin and Burke's. I thought they might 
> have been mentioned in the CoS book


They *are* mentioned it CoS book, only not at Borgin and Burke's, but 
at another store in Knockturn Alley: "... opposite (Borgin and 
Burke's) was a nasty window display of shrunken heads ..." (p.53, Am. 
ed.). Anyway, things like that, sold in Knockturn Alley, are 
definitely Dark Magic and they wouldn't be hanging in The Three 
Broomsticks or on the bus. In HBP, when the students were checked 
with Secrecy Sensors for Dark objects, "... Crabbe had a shrunken 
head confiscated" (p.235). Shrunken heads are Dark objects!!! More 
than that, they are simply disgusting and scary to look at. When PoA 
is on TV, I still close my eyes every time they are on the screen (as 
I do when they show Tom - oh, poor Tom!). I think that things like 
shrunken heads show not only Cuaron's bad taste, but also his bad 
knowledge of the books (no offense to those who loves this movie :-).

zanooda