MOVIE (but lots on canon PS6): Harry on scar, sequence, Snape

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 22490

Susan wrote:

>well, I can't stand it that Ron asks harry to show him the scar, and 
>Harry happily does it and Ron says "wicked" this is not canon..

>Harry does NOT like it that everyone's eyes do the familiar flick to 
>his scar, and Molly has taught her boys courtesy.

Okay, I can't defend "wicked," because it isn't canon, but I don't 
have a problem with it.  It seems to express what Ron is thinking at 
the time.  Kloves could've just reproduced the dialogue the way JKR 
wrote it, but "wicked" still seems in character.  I even think it's 
funny to use that common slang in which "bad" means "good," since 
that's exactly what the scar is:  a bad thing but way cool!

But on to the bigger issue.  What do you think Harry *does* feel, *in 
the book*, when he shows Ron his scar?  

I don't think Harry is tired of the familiar flick yet; it isn't even 
familiar yet.  It hasn't happened enough for him to get exasperated.  
He's only just starting to get the picture that people are all going 
to be very amazed to meet him.

My take on his feelings in PS/SS 6 is that he's embarrassed by F & G's 
staring, but not so much as to be irritated.  He's still not quite 
identified with the whole story enough to really see it as being about 
him (I love that "Harry Potter"--"Oh, him"), and then, he's fascinated 
by them too.  Likewise, with Ron, Harry doesn't seem irritated by the 
question.  We have to draw our own conclusions about most of what he's 
feeling on the trip, but it seems to me that he right away feels 
pretty comfortable with Ron and likes him, and also, again, he's 
wildly curious about Ron--he (Harry) doesn't feel like a freak, 
because Ron's whole world is so strange to him.  To the extent that he 
feels out of place, it's not because he's The Famous Harry Potter but 
because he was Muggle-raised.  Asked about his scar, he just shows 
it--no wince, internal or external.  Asked about You-Know-Who, he 
quickly volunteers the little he remembers about it, answering the 
question that Fred was wondering but that Ron hasn't asked (do you 
remember what Y-K-W looks like?); he doesn't seem at all offended that 
Ron is touching on a sensitive subject.  

The look he gives on the train is not exactly what I picture when I 
read, but it packs a lot of complex feeling that seems spot on to me. 
 He seems a little pleased, a little self-conscious, and a little "I 
can't quite believe that anyone is so stunned by my plain old scar, 
but it's cool that he is!"  These fumbling words are the best thing I 
can come up with to express what he says with one little twitch of the 
lip (am I jumping to conclusions, or can this child really, really 
act?).

>The trailer makes it sound as if Hermione chickened out and left 
>during the infiltration past Fluffy which is total bullshit..if that 
>is in the movie,  I will picket!

By all means get your Dementor costume ready--you may have other 
reasons to picket--but as for this point, I wouldn't worry about it.  
You can't divine anything about sequence from trailers, because to 
make the trailer they put together shots to make a mini-story, but 
it's not the same story as the one in the final movie.  E.g. the 
trailer shows Harry getting his broom and then the flying lesson, 
because it's logical in this "2 1/2 minute movie" to put the broom 
things together.  But the flying lesson actually happens first, and 
there's no reason to think they have changed that.

I was sure someone else was going to pick this nit, but no one did:  
Snape and Quirrell's sneaky conversation is indoors; you can see a 
column behind Q.  I wonder if this indicates a significant plot 
change.

Amy Z

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 Ron peered into Harry's teacup, his forehead
 wrinkled with effort.  "There's a blob a bit
 like a bowler hat," he said.  "Maybe you're 
 going to work for the Ministry of Magic. . . ."
               -HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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