Two WTF moments in the movie (spoilers)

[kennyg1864]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "coolbeans3131" <coolbeans3131 at ...> wrote:

> Joann:
> I've been wondering about this myself. One of the(many)interviews I read recently said they felt the needed this scene. What does the scene accomplish?
> 3. Mr. Weasley telling Harry about the vanishing cabinet. 

I missed that...yet *another* cabinet reference in the movie, that builds our anticipation for...what?  4 or 5 DE's in the castle, who break some windows and burn down Hagrid's Hut?  If that same vandalism had been a *capper* to a short-but-frenzied wand-battle in the hallways, now *that* would have been more fitting--a final bit of evil from Bellatrix & co.  

Wonder if the battle was in the script, and cut from the final version (or not filmed)?  Either way, bad choice on the part of the director, IMHO.


> It was strange however, that it was snowing at Hogwarts, but not at the burrow, 

Hogwarts is in Scotland, the Burrow at the English southern coast*, so that kind of weather could happen, esp. late fall/early spring.

* http://www.hp-lexicon.org/atlas/gazetteer/gazetteer-o.html#ottery_st_catchpole


> Joann
> who noticed on her second viewing yesterday Slughorn mentioning the bezoar in front of Harry and then putting it away in his trunk.

Missed that too...nice foreshadowing.  In the book, wasn't it a quiz question (or a HBP note in Harry's potions book)?  For this one critical moment, Harry actually used his Potions knowledge, and saved Ron--although in retrospect it's surprising it didn't occur to Slughorn to do the same thing.


kennyg1864, who wonders what else Harry "lost" in the Room of Requirement