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[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Lanval wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/170700>:

<< Catlady: << My spouse's late father's late dog [threw himself
between a pit bull and a child], when the pit bull next door got loose
from its back yard and menaced a toddler in its front yard. >>

Ouch, bless him! I hope this was not the incident that caused him to
become a 'late dog'? >>

I guess Dog (one of those imaginative, creative names) didn't have to
hold the pit bull off very long, because a lot of humans heard the
commotion and came running to intervene. The way Tim tells the story
(and he is my only source for it), the important part is not that the
pit bull got loose from an enclosure in which he was supposed to be
confined nor that Dog was a hero, but that Dog got some kind of big
bite on his leg, and the family didn't have money for veterinarians,
so Tim's father cleaned and sewed up the wound himself -- Tim says
something about cutting off a torn piece of tendon -- and Dog
recovered just fine. 

<< writing such wonderful scenes of Snape being a petty, nasty,
vengeful, spittle-spouting GIT >>

All other flaws in the HP movies can be redeemed by someone making
different better HP movies in the future, but the lost chance to see
*Alan Rickman* chewing the scenery in the Shrieking Shack scene will
never come again. Actors, *especially* child actors, age too fast for
WB to assemble to same cast, costumes and sets for a movie called
"Harry Potter and the Shrieking Shack" that would start (before the
opening titles) with the black dog dragging Ron down the hole, and
follow the book until the closing credits roll over the people
traversing the tunnel in the "out" direction.