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

[potioncat]

> 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.
>

Potioncat:

So, just to clarify, the movie goer understands that the person we 
all thought was Moody was really Barty, Jr. Could you summarize 
Barty's story for us? And did you get a feel for how Barty took over 
Moody? When you watched the movie a second time, did you feel 
differently about "Moody's" behavior?

Your understanding is that the Longbottoms were killed? Actually, 
they weren't. They have been patients at St. Mungo's Hospital all 
these years. They don't recognise Neville, although Alice seems to 
know he's important to her.

My husband and I just finished HBO's "John Adams" miniseries. Tom is 
constantly reading history and knows John Adams about as well as I 
know Snape. I had just read a biography of Abigail. So as we watched 
the show we were both muttering about the inaccuracies. In some cases 
I thought viewers would come away with a different view of the 
Adamses than they would have gotten from the book.

That's the sort of interest we have with the HP movies. How does the 
story come across without the book as background?