Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle

[Carol]

> Steve is still waiting for your questions on GOF and OOTP?

Carol responds:

Hm. I noted that they were posted on the Movie list and gave you the
link. It seems more appropriate to discuss those questions there.
Here's the link again:

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Movie/message/15699

If you've left the Movie group or prefer not to read the whole post to
get to the questions, I'll quote that portion of the post here:

"To return to GoF, I wonder--and New Steve is the right person to tell
me--how intelligible the Barty Jr. plot is to those who haven't read
the books. Was it confusing to have "Professor Moody" show up again in
the OoP film when he had been revealed as an imposter named Barty
Crouch, Jr., in the previous film? Was it clear who the real Alastor
Moody was and what happened to him? (Why call the real Moody
"professor" in OoP when he never actually taught?)

"Is it clear to you what happened to the Longbottoms, Neville's
parents? Yes, they were Crucio'd (as Neville states in the OoP film),
but so was Harry near the end of GoF (film and book), and his Crucio
is not regarded as a fate worse than death (Sirius Black's comment to
Harry when he shows him the photo of the old Order--never mind the
alterations in *that* scene). Do you understand from the films alone
what happened to the Longbottoms that would make Neville (in the film
version) want revenge? Also, is it confusing that Barty Jr. is found
guilty of the crime in GoF, yet OoP shifts the blame to Bellatrix
Lestrange?

"Those are points in which, it seems to me, the films would have
benefitted from following the books more closely."

I really am curious as to how a person who hasn't read the books
reacts to these scenes. The original post explains more about how the
film treatment of Barty Jr. differs from the book and why that's
important to some of us.

Carol, hoping that it's okay to discuss the films in some detail on
the OT list (List Elves, what should we do here?)