Casting mis-steps

[Carol]

Mary wrote:
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> There are a total of 42 high quality photos. Here is the link to the collection.
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> http://tinyurl.com/kpjojm
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> The photos are amazing. Lots of detail in the costumes and sets.
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> The files are big, many over 1 MB but oh such fun to study!
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> It took me? a while to track them down but it was well worth it.

Carol responds:

Thanks very much! I just noticed that the shot of Snape reacting to the Daily Prophet stories occurs in the daytime (the clock says 4:26 or something like that--I closed that window and can't recheck) and daylight shows through the blinds. The visit from Bellatrix and Narcissa probably occurs later the same night (around midnight in the book, and the room is darker in the shot of a dazed Snape and staring Bellatrix). It's interesting that he appears to have both an electric light and (unlit) candles on the hearth behind him. Maybe it's magical "eckeltricity," or maybe he magically steals electricity from the Muggles so he doesn't have to pay the bill. I've never seen an oil lamp in that shape; the shade is pointing downward. Or maybe it's just a blunder on the part of the set designers, like the Victrolas and electric trains in PoA. I agree with whoever said that the blinds should be drapes. Wizards don't use Venetian blinds that we know of. Looks as if Snape has made no effort (except the bookshelves) to convert his father's shabby 1960s Muggle house to his needs. I do hope the producers include at least one of the hidden doors in the bookshelves, which have to be Snape's doing. I don't think his mother would have dared to make such changes given his father's temper. And is that a skylight over his head?  Odd--isn't it a two-story house?

Carol, wishing that the set designers had studied the scene a little more carefully, getting all the details right rather than half of them