[HPFGU-Movie] Re: PoA MOVIE DISCUSSION.

[Lady of Imladris]

That is why I like Remus Lupin because he was a simple wizard. 

I have always been fascinated by trains and when I was a kid and got to go on a train I thought it was the kewlest thing in the world. I always wanted to pull the cord you know? lol.

I think it made the story unique to have the train in HP it set it apart from other stories. 

Its another reason why I just love the movie "Polar Express," lol. Its also a good movie if you haven't seen it yet. 

My great-Uncle had a awesome train collection, he had villages,water falls, pounds, little toy horses, cows, and everything else you could image. My cousins and i always spend hours playing that basement. Just watching the trains lol.  

Love,
Red


--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Nightbreed <md at exit-reality.com> wrote:

> From: Nightbreed <md at exit-reality.com>
> Subject: RE: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: PoA MOVIE DISCUSSION.
> To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 10:48 PM
> It's possible he just doesn't care to fly (see,
> Hermione) and it's also
> possible that apparating isn't his thing as not all
> wizards are good at all
> things. After all, if wizards could just apparate all the
> time why use
> brooms and floo networks at all? Just as well, the parents 
> could
> side-along-apparte their children to the Hogwarts gates, or
> use the floo
> network.
> 
>  
> 
> The real question is, why have the train at all? Because
> JKR was on a train
> when she thought of the book in the first place, because
> the entire idea was
> based around a boy going to a wizard school by train. But,
> logically with
> brooms, floo & apparition the entire idea of a train
> seems pointless unless
> you unbalance the powers and preferences of the wizards. 
> 
>  
> 
> Maybe it just says a lot about Lupin's character, his
> un-flashiness, his
> simplicity that he chooses less magical modes of
> transportation.
> 
>  
> 
> md
> 
>  
> 
> From: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of zanooda2
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:07 PM
> To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: PoA MOVIE DISCUSSION.
> 
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> 
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:HPFGU-Movie%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> "Nightbreed" <md at ...> wrote:
> 
> > I always figured it was because Lupin is poor,
> can't afford a 
> > broom, can't apparate into Hogwarts. 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> Right, not into Hogwarts, but he can Apparate to the gates,
> can't he :-)? Or
> he can use the Floo network to get to Hogsmead and then
> walk to the school.
> Maybe he was too weak to meet Dementors in big numbers at
> the school
> entrance, if he traveled alone? 
> 
> OTOH, he left the school at the end of the book also by a
> carriage, IIRC,
> which is more difficult to explain, because Dementors were
> not there
> anymore. I would guess he was not strong enough to go
> through Apparition,
> because it is rather challenging physically, but he did it
> all right in DH,
> so I don't know what to think :-).
> 
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