Movie - Amateur psychoanalysis of librarians

[Amy Z]

Sam wrote:

>I mean, I saw the ending coming a mile off -
>that is, one of the romantic leads dying, not the whole ship sinking thing.

Didn't see that part coming, eh?  It was something of a shocker. <g>

and:

>Inaccuracies in terms of theme could be worrying

Those worry me a lot more than plot.

and:

>- I'm worried that the movie is going to portray Harry as 'perfect', ie, 
>the Boy Who Could Do No Wrong. IMO, one of Canon-Harry's greatest 
>attractions is the fact that, while he's good (morally), he *isn't* 
>perfect. If Film-
>Harry is some sort of Wonder Kid, then I'm worried I'll find myself 
>disliking him.

The story line of the trailer indicates otherwise, since the running joke is 
disobedience of what Dumbledore's saying (even if they had to show things 
that didn't really apply, like showing the Snitch to undermine his "no magic 
between classes").  That's probably just to make the trailer audience laugh, 
but it also fits very nicely with the Potterian tendency to do whatever the 
heck he wants.

Along these lines, someone, I can't find who, has complained about the 
so-obvious delivery of a broomstick on the grounds that it's supposed to be 
a secret.  The broomstick delivery doesn't bug me at all, sorry.  For all 
the rules and supposed secrecy, everyone *does* know that Harry got a broom. 
  He's playing on the House team, so McGonagall can't exactly keep it a 
secret that she bent the rules.  Having it arrive unboxed just moves 
everyone's discovery up about 10 minutes, if that--judging from Draco's 
reaction *in canon*, spotting a broomstick from its wrapping is about as 
hard as spotting an LP (remember those?).

LavenderChic wrote on the main list:

>Where do you all live?  everytime i need help at a library, the
>librarian sighs, rolls her eyes and points to a computer.

<question about Arabella, Spain follows>

Boo!  That's really bad.  The reason I am such a big fan of librarians, 
other than the fact that I love books and libraries and worked for a 
wonderful art librarian in my work-study job through college, is that in 
stark contrast to most patron-service-type jobs, the more questions you ask 
them, the more they seem to like it.  This is refreshing.  From talking to 
librarians I think I may know why this is:  most of them are way overtrained 
for the work they do.  Library degrees require people to know how to do all 
sorts of research, but most librarians' jobs are more mundane and don't 
include as much of this as they would like.  So when you walk up to them 
with a challenging problem, they're happy.

Because I also love to do research, I checked my atlas, and it doesn't list 
Arabella, Spain (there's an Arabelo, Venezuela).  It doesn't list the 
smallest towns, though, so that's not a definitive answer.

Amy

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