Two WTF moments in the movie (spoilers)

[Doreen]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> Carol again:
> I should probably keep my opinions to myself until I see the movie, but IMO Mr. Weasley "researching the item that Draco was investigating" is a big departure from the book and too much for Harry to know. (The viewers will know it, of course, from the Draco scenes). Neither Harry nor DD (nor Snape) should know that Draco is trying to fix a broken Vanishing Cabinet; it's too obvious that he wants to use it to get DEs into Hogwarts.
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Respectfully, I think it makes a lot of sense to not form opinions on the movie until you have seen it for yourself.  

In the book Mr. Weasley searched the Malfoy's home after Harry expressed his concerns to Mr. Weasley, so I feel the movie is demonstrating the same idea that Mr. Weasley doesn't just ignore Harry's concerns, but in this case it is by visiting B&B.

When Mr. Weasley and Harry discuss the vanishing cabinet it is described as a place to hide or disappear in for awhile.  It is not described as a means of transport.  When Draco tells Dumbledore about the cabinets when they are on the tower, Dumbledore replies, "Oh, it had a twin." The way I interpreted this is that in the movie world the cabinet can only get you from a to b if it had a twin, and that having a twin was not the norm.  This is why I think Mr. Weasley and Harry were not concerned about the cabinet earlier.  They didn't realize that a. the cabinet had a twin, and b. the twin was somewhere at Hogwarts.  Thus, in terms of the movie logic it all made sense to me.

Also, although the movie shows deatheaters entering B&B, it never shows the owner or any employees being threatened by Fenrir(sp) or anyone else.

I hope I am explaining this well, and with enough detail and accuracy. I only saw the movie once.  For what it's worth, none of the movies can compare to the books for me, but I have found movies three through six entertaining.