Oh my Goodness!! Final HBP trailer

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
> > I just rewatched with attention to the times and came up with five different Snape moments.... In the distance scene, I can see him holding out his wand and Harry flying head over heels. IOW, Snape has clearly followed Harry's advice to fight back--and I think movie audiences will see him the way Harry does, as a murdering traitor who attacked Harry. 
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Kemper now:
> Harry went 'flying head over heels' ('soaring backwards' in the book) after he attempted the nonverbal Levicorpus on Snape.    Whether this is due to the nonverbal being deflected in some way or an actual attack by Snape is not clear in the book.   My personal take is the deflection, powerful parry.
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> Kemper
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Carol responds:
Yes, of course. Snape deflects Harry's spells "again and again and again" in the book. Only at the end, when he's had more than enough and also needs to get out before the Aurors come, does he resort to some sort of stinging hex.

I think the same thing is happening in the trailer. First you see the relative close-up with his wand on one side, then a puff that looks like the deflected hex or curse, and then his wand on the other. Then you see the distance shot with Snape's wand out, the spell actually coming from Snape's wand and hitting Harry, and Harry tumbling head over heels. So, yes, Snape deflects Harry's curses as in the book (why else would Harry yell, "Fight back, you coward!"--not that deflecting spells is cowardly, but Harry isn't thinking straight?). And then, in the distance shot, he hits him with a spell--the point at which Buckbeak tries to attack Snape in the book and Snape heads for the gate. Assuming that they include the Buckbeak scene, that's the point when the filmgoers who think Snape is evil will cheer--and the rest of us will know that those people haven't read the books. :-)

I'm not sure what we're arguing about here. I'm just discussing the shots as they appear when you pause the video at various points. First he deflects the spell or spells and then he fires a spell that knocks Harry off his feet--you can see the spell if you pause the video in the right place--just as in the book.

Carol. glad that they're handling that scene canonically