SS/PS MOVIE DISCUSSION

[Carol]

Potioncat: 
> Can you explain why you think DD and Snape found Harry?

Carol:

Sorry to snip the rest of the post, but I wanted to focus on just this
one point. My apologies for discussing the book on the Movie list;
that's where the idea comes from.

"He could only hear Quirrell's terrible shrieks and Voldemort's yells
of "KILL HIM! KILL HIM!" and *other voices*, maybe in Harry's head,
crying "harry! Harry!" (SS Am. ed. 295).

Now, admittedly, Snape wouldn't yell "Harry! Harry!" but "voices"
suggests that Dumbledore is not there alone. Maybe McGonagall is with
him, but if she's there, I suspect that Snape is there, too, just as
he always shows up when Dumbledore needs him. Snape knows that HRH are
"up to something," and Harry has let slip to McGonagall that he thinks
that someone is going to steal the Stone tonight. So either McGonagall
or Snape or both must have informed DD that he needed to turn around
and come back, and one or both must have accompanied him through the
maze of spells and so forth, perhaps undoing their own spells on the
way. (I can't see DD stopping to play chess or figure out Snape's
riddle even if there's enough potion left to get him through the
curtain of fire.)

I could, of course, be completely wrong, but that's the reading that
makes most sense to me.

Carol, who thinks that Voldemort's "Seize him!" (does he say that in
the film or only in the book?) makes him sound like the Wicked Witch
of the West in the film version of "Wizard of Oz"