What the hell are they up to now?

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...>
wrote:
> On 19 Jan 2004 at 15:13, arrowsmithbt wrote:
> 
> > Not content with a school choir with toad accompaniment, further 
> > perversions of the canon should be expected in the film version of
> > PoA.
> > 
> > A report (in the Daily Telegraph at the end of last week) stated
> > that a steam roundabout (trans. fairground carousel) had been
> > purchased and would feature in the film.


> Shaun:
> 
> Actually, I think such an object would fit very nicely into Diagon 
> Alley - remember in Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry is free to wander 
> around the Alley, far more than in the first two books. I'd 
> personally like to see a bit more of it. I don't really think we're 
> likely to - it's time intensive for little plot advancement - but 
> used appropriately, I can see that fitting in fairly well.
> 
> Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
> Shaun Hately 

bboy_mn:

Well, if I continue the assumption that the Carousel will appear in
Diagon Alley, I can see HOW they could fit it in, I just can't see WHY
they would try.

With so much great story there, and so many great visuals written in
the book, why would they need to waste precious screen time showing
something like this? I suppose it could just be something in the
background that Harry walks past as he wanders the Alley, but I would
sooner see the Quidditch shop or Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor where
Harry gets free Choconut sundaes every half hour while he does his
home work. Or the Magical Menagerie where Herione finds Crookshanks.
Or breakfast at the Leaky Cauldron with rowdy warlocks and hags eating
raw liver. There simply must be better things to do with the time and
money than a carousel.

I can think of a lot of things I would rather see than a carousel. Of
course, the carousel may not be for PoA; it could be something for
Goblet of Fire, perhaps a carousel outside the Quidditch staduim. The
pre-game period does sort of have a carnival atmosphere. 

Just a thought.

bboy_mn