more trailer blather

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 21606

I downloaded the Quiktime version of the trailer and I have a few 
more observations:

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In the Great Hall scene where Hedwig delivers the broom to Harry, if 
you watch the Quiktime version, you see that the broom IS wrapped up, 
in brown paper, although it is very obviously a broom.  Also in that 
scene, the kid sitting to the right of Ron ducks as Hedwig dives in.  
Not very brave for a Gryffindor.

In the brief scene of Dumbledore at the table McGonagal and Flitwick 
are on his right and there is a black woman (witch, I suppose I 
should say) wearing a pointy hat on his left.  Who is she?  Do we 
know this actress?  I guess she is supposed to be one of the 
professors we never meet, maybe Vector.

In the 2nd scene in the Forbidden Forest it looks like a dark shadowy 
figure is gliding and then leaning over what looks like a dead horse 
– is this our first glimpse of Voldy?  Pretty creepy.

Neville has his fists up at the beginning of the "Petrificus Totalus" 
scene.  Cute.  Poor Neville.

In the first Great Hall scene, the one that is also in the 1st 
trailer of the first years walking in for the Sorting Ceremony, the 
non-first year students are wearing pointy hats.  Later, there is one 
brief scene of a group of students walking in the corridor, just 
before the Fluffy scene.  It looks like the older student (Percy?), 
who is leading a group of younger students, may be wearing a pointy 
hat.  Otherwise, in none of the other scenes do any of the students 
ever wear their hats.  But isn't the hat part of the Hogwarts 
uniform?  I guess the film makers decided they would look stupid so 
they would just to use them for special occasions, except for 
McGonagal who always wears hers.

As further evidence of my previous comment that the special effects 
for the moving staircase scene are cheesy, I want to point out that 
it takes place in a huge stairwell with hundreds of paintings on the 
wall, none of which are moving.

BTW, I am having a problem with the Quiktime version.  The audio is 
lagging a few seconds behind the video, although if I pause it and 
then restart they are in sync for a few seconds, then the audio 
starts to lag again.  Is this fixable?  Other than this problem, the 
Quiktime version is far superior in quality to the Realtime version.

--Joywitch