[HPFGU-OTChatter] Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle

[Stephen Vandecasteele]

--- On Fri, 1/9/09, Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle
> To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 1:54 PM
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> > Steve is still waiting for your questions on GOF and
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> Hm. I noted that they were posted on the Movie list and
> gave you the
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> http://movies.
> groups.yahoo. com/group/ HPFGU-Movie/ message/15699
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> If you've left the Movie group or prefer not to read
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> get to the questions, I'll quote that portion of the
> post here:
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> "To return to GoF, I wonder--and New Steve is the
> right person to tell
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> me--how intelligible the Barty Jr. plot is to those who
> haven't read
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> the books. Was it confusing to have "Professor
> Moody" show up again in
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> the OoP film when he had been revealed as an imposter named
> Barty
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> Crouch, Jr., in the previous film? Was it clear who the
> real Alastor
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> Moody was and what happened to him? (Why call the real
> Moody
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> "professor" in OoP when he never actually
> taught?)
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> "Is it clear to you what happened to the Longbottoms,
> Neville's
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> parents? Yes, they were Crucio'd (as Neville states in
> the OoP film),
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> but so was Harry near the end of GoF (film and book), and
> his Crucio
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> is not regarded as a fate worse than death (Sirius
> Black's comment to
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> Harry when he shows him the photo of the old Order--never
> mind the
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> alterations in *that* scene). Do you understand from the
> films alone
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> what happened to the Longbottoms that would make Neville
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> version) want revenge? Also, is it confusing that Barty Jr.
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> guilty of the crime in GoF, yet OoP shifts the blame to
> Bellatrix
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> Lestrange?
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> "Those are points in which, it seems to me, the films
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> benefitted from following the books more closely."
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> I really am curious as to how a person who hasn't read
> the books
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> reacts to these scenes. The original post explains more
> about how the
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> film treatment of Barty Jr. differs from the book and why
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Steve Here,

As to what happened to Professor Moody in GOF I think anyone watching the movie was not confused at all. As to the Longbottoms that were tortured true enough but were also hit with the death curse.

Steve who still belongs to the movie group.