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

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Two points:

1) I also heard the trailer as if it said the first floor corridor 
and not third. 
2) Harry's boggart is still a demeantor because it is not truly the 
demeantor that he is fearful of but the painful memories of his 
parents dying that the demeantor evokes who he comes in contact with 
it. Harry doesn't want to be continually haunted by those memories, 
and they are what he is fearful of. He may have the ability to 
protect himself from it but he doesn't want to have to think about 
it. 


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Scott" <insanus_scottus at y...> wrote:
> 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