PoA Chapter 17+MOVIE: Trailer opinions+Boggarts+Various Ramblings

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 21553

Hi everybody! I've really been a lurker lately, but I've been busy 
getting ready for my trip so I've not had much time...

Prision of Azkaban-

I totally agree with everything Joywitch wrote on the Death Penalty 
and its relation to HP. In fact I readily agree with everything 
everyones written, but I still wanted to comment. 

I brought this up long ago, and I still don't think Harry was *ever* 
going to kill Sirius. Not that he physically couldn't, (like someone 
wrote- there are other ways of killing someone that AK.) but I don't 
think he was thinking clearly enough in that moment to know what he 
was doing, or to have a certain spell in mind. He was filled with 
rage and anger to bursting, and then when he stopped and in that 
moment saw the implications of what he was threatening to do he 
didn't. 

PoA is my favourite book, and its largely due to the fact that Harry 
deals with his "inner demons". That's personified in the dementors, 
but comes through even better in this scene. Harry is truly a person 
of moral courage.

Movie Trailer-

Ok I've watched it numerous times, blurry though it is, and I love 
it...EXCEPT for (do you really want to know?)
1. Harry's Scar is in the wrong place. 
2. It looks like Neville is out of the Fluffy scene for sure, and 
they aren't wearing pyjamas!
3. What is it with the "Petrificus Totalus" line that they aren't 
wearing robes? I thought they had robes on all the time! (Well they 
have to launder them once and awhile, but-). If they wear muggle 
clothes even at Hogwarts then GoF and the QWC isn't going to make 
much sense.
4. The moving staircase looks a little, uh...dangerous. I know they 
move but this makes it look as though one could easily fall to ones 
death. I didn't think they were quite so risky. (are they supposed to 
be?) 
5. Hogwarts. When they are coming in the boats, and you see 
Hogwarts...erm..what to say? It's not right, but I *know* I can't 
expect it to be. *loud sigh*
6.When Dumbledore says that the third floor corridor is off-limits it 
sounds like "first", but this could be my american ears being 
confused.

Boggarts-

I think maybe someone already reponded, but one of the questions for 
the last chapter summeries was about whether Harry's boggart was 
still a dementor at the end of PoA? I'd assume yes since it was still 
a dementor and the third task in GoF. The lingering question is why. 
Why would the Dementor still be Harry's fear when he has the power of 
the patronus over it? We have to assume the Boggart can't change of 
over time, or to assume it can for that matter. So why in GoF is 
Harry still most afraid of the Dementor? Because even the patronus 
doesn't calm his fears? Because it was a fast moving section and JKR 
didn't feel like being very origninal or distracting to the plot at 
that point? Hmmm...

I hope that I'll have time to drop in during July, but since I'm not 
sure how much computer access I'll have that's iffy! Have a great 
July everyone!

Scott