Finally saw it! - The Cane and the Room.

[Steve]

---  "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> ---  "Jen Reese" <stevejjen@> wrote:
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> > Jen, who jumped during the Inferi scene in her first viewing but 
> > was ready the second time around.
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> zanooda:
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> Did you watch it twice then :-)? In this case, maybe you can tell me what was the deal with Malfoy's cane, or staff or whatever it was :-). I mean the scene when Harry and Luna arrive at the school and Filch tries to stop Draco from bringing this object inside. 
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> I didn't understand what it was all about and I didn't manage to have a good look at the thing. Was it Lucius's snake-head cane? If not, what was the point of the scene? Maybe you noticed and understood more, having seen the movie twice :-)?
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bboyminn:

I've only seen the movie once, but I assumed that the scene was the Directors way of establishing that Filch is checking everyone who come into the school. To help establish the idea of tightened security, though since it was never mentioned again, it seems kind of pointless. 

Since Lucius is in jail, I suspect Draco did try to bring his father's cane with him to school. I think that cane would be something of a status symbol. Though it would certainly seem ridiculously pretentious of Draco to be prancing around the school with the cane, so, I think, once at school, it remained in his room as a reminder of his father. And, also, though unintended, a reminder to Draco what was at stake if he failed in his mission.

The one part of the movie that I thought was ridiculous was Ginny taking Harry to the Room of Requirements. What was that about? Does Harry have amnesia? Has he forgotten about the room over the summer? And why does the location of the room keep changing? 

And what was the deal with hiding the book. If I recall, Harry just hands the book over to Ginny, and doesn't really hid it at all. Where is the DIADEM? Don't we need that in the plot? Shouldn't Harry have at least seen something vaguely crown-like in the room to lay the clue that that is the location of the very important to the plot lost diadem of Ravenclaw.

How are they going to get around that? 

I could see so many ways that the movie makers have painted themselves into a corner in this movie. Even with the last book in two movies, I can't see how they are reasonably going to overcome these problems. I can only assume HUGE key plot points are simply going to be overlooked.

That seems sad. 

Still, I've given up on them getting it right. Now I just watch the movies and the are what they are. No sense getting stressed out over it ... even though I do.

Steve/bluewizard