The teaser is online! (Spoilers)

Carol justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 31 06:50:25 UTC 2008


Jen wrote: 
> <snip>
> What's this about an added attack on the **Burrow**?!?  I'm
obviously behind on the news.  As for Ginny, it looks like she's
throwing a black wand in the water beside her with a quietly defiant
look on her face.  
 
> I thought like Carol that the scene was Harry racing after
Snape/Draco. Until hearing about this added scene. Now I'm not sure
what to think. 

Carol:

David Yates gave an interview some time ago (you can find links to it
on Leaky if you search around the HBP movie section) in which he said
that they added a scene intended to serve the same purpose as "The
Other Minister" in HBP, to show that Voldemort is back and wreaking
havoc. There's a bridge collapsing, as well. If you search this list
for "attack" and "Burrow," I'm sure you can find the link, along with
my complaints and the reactions of several other posters to this
particular newsflash. (There's also the Snape/Draco photo, which looks
promising, and a photo of Helen McCrory as Narcissa that generated
some comment. If you're not up on the news, you might want to browse
the posts here, or at least the thread titles, to get an idea of
what's going on.)

Jen:
> Is the full trailer out at the end of August?  I heard something
about it showing before the new Star Wars-Clone Wars flick.

Carol:
I heard that, too, but I don't know whether it's been confirmed.

Jen: 
> Btw Carol, you mentioned the memory looking cloudy in one of your 
posts, perhaps on OTC.  I think that's Slughorn's initial memory b/c
DD said it was the most important one he'd collected.  

Carol responds:
About the cloudy memories, I wasn't thinking of the fog in Slughorn's
memory, where nothing is heard or seen except Slughorn's voiceover. I
meant that, in the GoF and OoP films, the memories come out of Snape's
and Dumbledore's heads in silvery strands but, once they're in the
Pensieve, they look cloudlike, wispy, and white, whereas these bottled
memories look golden (unless, as I said, they're in amber-colored
vials). Harry plunges his head into what looks almost like water, so
they must be clear (or silvery white) when they're actually in the
Pensieve, but we don't see what the memories actually look like. I
think the look of the memories should be consistent from film to film,
and I hope it is, but the vials look more as I expected the flask of
Felix Felicis to look than the way I imagined the bottled memories.

Jen: 
> Oh, and the tinyurl address:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/
> 
> You paste the long address in, hit the button that says Make TinyURL
and viola!  It was easier than I imagined.

Carol:
I still don't understand about the tinyURL. Which button are you
referring to? Is it only on IE or do the other browsers have it?

Oh. One more detail about the teaser. Did anyone besides me notice
that the A in ORPHANAGE is hanging by one leg (I almost said suspended
by one ankle, <g>). It gives the place an air of neglect, along with
an air of general grimness in the building itself, with its
institutional look emphasized by the prisonlike bars of the cast-iron
gate. I think--someone with better eyesight might confirm this for
me--that the grey-black dinginess is supposed to suggest the
soot-filled air of 1930s London, which would coat the walls of the
buildings with grime. Altogether, an unpleasant place to live. (As
Shelley wrote more than a hundred years before Tom's birth, "Hell is a
city much like London.")

Carol, combining dead poets with fictional characters since both are
equally real in her imagination 

Carol, amazed that she got any work done today with the excitement of
this teaser trailer





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