Half-Blood Prince Date change - new picture

[Carol]

Potioncat wrote:
> You know, in the Vow scene, Bellatrix is clearly wearing black, and
Snape's suit looks very blue next to it. But it doesn't make sense
that the costume department would make two sets of clothing for Snape
that look so much alike except for a slight color change. 

Carol:
I won't venture to say what makes sense for a costume department,
especially one that chooses to put the flamboyant Dumbledore in dingy
gray robes that he never seems to change!

Potioncat: 
> The academic robes Snape wears in the 2nd photo look like what he
wore in SS/PS.

Carol: 

I'm not so sure. First, I know that I referred to them as academic
robes before, but that's my mistake. Unlike Movie!DD and Book!Snape,
Movie!Snape doesn't really wear robes. It's more like a very tight,
buttoned-up suit with pants and a knee-length coat over which he
sometimes wears a sweeping black cloak or coat (the one he wraps
around himself so seductively in SS/PS). In the Halloween banquet
photo from SS/PS, 
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3626735872/ch0000988 (sorry I can't find a
better link!)
the cloak has armholes, as does the one he's wearing in the HBP
necklace photo, but the fabric looks different. The new one seems
silkier and more gathered as opposed to what looks (to my eyes) like a
heavy wool cloak in the Halloween photo. McGonagall, in any case, is
clearly wearing a new costume in the HBP necklace photo. Look at the
pointy shoulders of the jacket, which we haven't seen before, IIRC.

Potioncat: 
> I'm still at my brother's and am feasting on the photos. Sounds
silly, I know. I knew my screen was very bad...but oh dear, I didn't 
know how much better it could be.

Carol:
Offlist me and I'll see if I can help a little. I'm no expert, but I
know a few things that you can check.

Potioncat: 
> My youngest and I watched the teaser trailer yesterday. He thinks DD
looks like Sirius.

Carol:
To a fourteen-year-old, all "old people" look alike! Either that or
it's the facial hair. If they'd given DD auburn hair as in the books,
he might have seen a difference.

Carol, who spent way too much time looking for an image that should
have been easy to find, the Halloween photo from SS/PS