New Deathly Hallows trailer

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Child Of Midian" <md at ...> wrote:

Marc:.
> First, when replying / receiving in HTML my replies appear in blue and in a
> different font, why would it occur to me that it wouldn't look that way to
> you, I've been on list like this for 10 years, this is the first one where
> it posed an issue.

Geoff:
It doesn't show up on my system like that. Secondly, 
it's the first time I've ever had a reply from you
which has been formatted in that way.....

Marc:
> Second, I leave the original info on top so people can see what the original
> post came from, also, 10 years, 6 list, on matters here as far as I can
> tell.

Geoff:
We (speaking collectively and not individually) have 
had a similar discussion to this on Main in the not-
too-distant past.

In your message 17154, your reply was top-posted. It 
didn't matter too much in that instance but there have 
frequently been cases in the past on the various HP 
groups where a very long series of posts have accummulated
and switching between top- and bottom-posting makes 
it very difficult to follow a thread.


md:
> As to the DH trailer, I completely disagree. Harry has no reason in the book
> to believe Voldy is any threat to him, the circling always felt like just a
> way to get some dialogue in and because I think JK saw one too many films
> where they circle each-other before a duel. We don't know that Harry isn't
> rushing to help when he encounters Voldy, just that he encounters him
> outside the clock tower.
> My point is that in the half-seconds of footage in the trailer there's
> nothing to suggest much of anything but grand conclusions drawn for the
> point of complaining. 

Geoff:
I have said that I am making assumptions which may be wrong
and am merely saying that I am suspicious of ways in which 
the screenplay is working out, with memories of some iffy
bits in previous films.

md:
Honestly, I wonder why most people here are here, most
> of you seem to hate the films, complain endlessly about every detail of them
> and speculate on how much you'll hate each up-coming one.

Geoff:
Please don't count me in with the film haters. I came to be 
a Harry Potter fan through the films and I enjoy them as much 
as the books. My first introduction was when COS was released 
into the cinemas followed shortly by seeing PS via Sky. This
encouraged me to start reading the books and I joined HPFGU
in July 2003. The rest, as they say, is history.

My point is that screen adaptations often include changes for 
the sake of change - and I am not just referring to the Harry 
Potter films.

I think we are at a position where we have been on occasions previously - of agreeing to disagree.
:-)