Mr. Crouch's death (Was: Getting it right in the films)

[Lizzie Mae Lilly]

And when in the books did Prof. Snape ever hit a student?  Verbal 
abuse aplenty but *never* physical.  The closest he ever came was the 
thrown jar of cockroaches after he pulled Harry out of the pensieve.  
Of course, that gave Yates approval to have Snape hit Ron in OotP!!

Lizzie Mae

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Missy Gallant 
<missygallant2000 at ...> wrote:
>
> See I came at it completely differently.  I just
> thought the director was basically clueless.  He
> thought it was "cool" for Harry's scar to hurt when
> there was danger around.  Any danger- not just Voldy
> danger.  So, he had Daniel grab his head.
> 
> I think he also has a "thing" for dragons.  Perhaps a
> large collection of Pewter ones sitting on shelves in
> his bedroom. Which is why were we subjected to such a
> ridiculously long dragon scene.  He didn't read the
> book, or he'd know that since there was a penalty for
> damaging the eggs, killing the mama would be an even
> larger penalty and there's just no way Harry would
> score well in that competition.  He also removed ALL
> of the cool background magic- like the moving
> pictures, or even in POA the stuff in the Leaky
> Cauldron was super cool.  But this movie had NONE of
> that.  Just a stupid long Dragon scene.
> 
> And the tongue thing- I never caught that Moody did it
> too.  I just thought that the stupid director was
> trying to get us to see the snake connection- you know
> because us publics are stupid and need stuff pointed
> out to us.