PoA MOVIE DISCUSSION.

[potioncat]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107@> wrote:
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> > Carol wrote a very interesting post:
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> >  toy trains, shrunken heads, or Tom the Barman.
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> > > I think you need to distinguish between stuff that isn't 
> > > in the book from stuff that couldn't be in the book.
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> zanooda:
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> In the books shrunken heads are considered Dark Objects. They are sold in Knockturn Alley, and in HBP one such head was confiscated (as a Dark Object!!) from Crabbe (or Goyle?) when he attempted to bring it to school. So I would agree with Carol - I can't imagine those horrors hanging (and talking!!!!) at the Three Broomsticks or on the Knight Bus, sorry :-).

Potioncat:
It dawned on me that the purpose of the heads at the Three Broomsticks was to keep Ron and Hermione out in order to keep the scene simpler. I wish they'd come up with a different idea. Afterall--why would Rosmerta keep out a castle full of customers on the one of the rare days the kids are in Hogsmeade? 


Zanooda: 
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> As for the toy trains - I didn't notice them much, somehow :-). They are OK, Carol, I guess. I don't think they are *really* electrical ... :-).

Potioncat:
This was the first time I noticed the train (was there more than one?). It was part of the elaborate solar-system looking time piece that Lupin had. It seemed in place to me, as part of the greater item. And the WW has the Hogwarts Express so trains would be a part of their culture.

Now, the chemistry set that Severus was rumored to have played with---not so sure about that. Unless of course, Tobias gave him one at Christmas one year.  ;-)