PoA MOVIE DISCUSSION.

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67@> wrote:
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> > I agree that they're probably not electrical, but how is a 
> > filmgoer who hasn't read the books supposed to know that? 
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> Oh, right :-)! I always forget about those folks and look at things from the point of view of someone who read the books a hundred times :-). And I really need to watch the movie again to find out what you are talking about :-). I honestly don't remember the trains :-).
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> zanooda
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Carol responds:
Actually, it's probably just one train, Lupin's toy, apparently. IIRC, it's in the same scene with the spine candles and the dragon skeleton that we remember from CoS (evidently it was repaired after the Cornish pixies demolished it) right before the lesson on the Patronus Charm (which Harry masters rather more easily and quickly than he did in the book).

BTW, any thoughts as to why Lupin (in both the film and the book) rode the Hogwarts Express (unlike any other teacher till Slughorn)? He couldn't have anticipated a Dementor attack, but maybe DD stationed him there in case Sirius Black tried to get on board to kill Harry? Obviously, DD must have paid his way given his financial state. Or was it just coincidence--he was too tired and ill to Apparate (despite the full moon cycle, which can't have a full moon on both August 31 (the night before September 1) and October 31 (Halloween, when we know from the book that he transforms).

Carol, wondering why Lupin would have a toy train of any sort (or a Victrola)