Casting James & Lily - More on Troll - Amos

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12716

Thanks for the casting update, FFA!  They look just right to me, 
except that I don't picture James as such a hunk, 90% MMWP fanfic 
notwithstanding.  Maybe if Adrian whatsisname buttoned up his shirt, 
put on some glasses, and turned off the sexy glower.

Thanks to those who posted re: the troll.  My troll-like brain is 
still sluggishly trying to understand.  I get that Ron & Harry had two 
strikes and therefore might be in big trouble due to their failure to 
go straight to Gryffindor Tower.  What I don't get is that what 
Hermione tells McGonagall (which gets them points added instead of 
expulsion) is that they rescued her, which isn't a lie; that's exactly 
what they did.  They came looking for her when they heard about the 
troll, because they knew she wouldn't know about it.  IOW, if they'd 
told McGonagall exactly what happened, she'd have heard virtually the 
same story as Hermione told her--minus the lie that Hermione herself 
went looking for the troll.

I think the essential part of the scene is that the shared adventure 
made them friends (not the shared lie nor the evidence that Hermione 
can lie to teachers with the best of them), but still, I am niggled by 
the feeling that JKR is trying to tell me something that I'm not 
getting.

Kimberly:  we don't hear anything from Amos D. in the final scene (he 
sobs through the entire conversation and we only hear his wife speak), 
so we have only Harry's/the narrator's interpretation that Amos no 
longer held Harry's various perceived sins against him.  

Amy Z

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Dudley thought for a moment.  It looked like hard work.
            --Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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