[HPforGrownups] Trailer

[Ara or Heather]

No: HPFGUIDX 13290

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Hey everyone...this is my first post, although I've
been reading for weeks.  Haven't had anything to say
until now!

Like everyone else, I've spent the day watching the
trailer over and over and over and obsessing over the
little details.  I don't think anyone's mentioned this
yet today.  In the flying lesson scene, there are two
lines of students.  One is apparently the Gryffindor
line (Harry, Ron, and Hermione are in it) and one is
apparently the Slytherin line (the blond between two
large boys is apparently Draco with Crabbe and Goyle).
 There are twelve students in the Gryffindor line,
with (presumably) Neville rapidly rising above them
making thirteen.  There are thirteen students in the
Slytherin line.  In the charms class scene where
Hermione is levitating the feather, there are twelve
students visible, with a textbook in the upper right
which may belong to a student out of shot.  This would
add up to thirteen as well.  Perhaps the filmmakers
decided that Hogwarts would have thirteen students per
house, per year, as in the traditional witches' coven?
 That would equal 364 students at Hogwarts total, and
91 students at each of the long tables.  Anyone want
to check to see if there are 91 plates in the Great
Hall scene? 

I *don't* think that JKR plans for there to be 13
students per house per year, but I do think it's
interesting that the filmmakers chose to do so (so far
as I can tell).  In addition, in the charms class
scene, there are Ron, Harry, Seamus (working with
Harry), two boys behind them (Dean and Neville?) and
possibly two more boys in the back row on the
left...plus the student out of shot, if he's a
boy...too many boys again.  Grrr...and we hoped the
trailer might solve some problems...

In the closeup of Ron and Harry before the sorting, is
that Pansy Parkinson to their left?

LOVE the bit where the three are screaming!  Harry
turns and runs while Hermione and Ron are still
standing there, then IN SYNC Herm and Ron turn to run
as well!  Further proof they belong together! *ducks
the flying shoes thrown by the H/Hers* :)

When Harry looks up at the (bludger? I think), his
hair flies up and if you pause it just right (or are
running it frame by frame) there's a tiny blob of pink
on his forehead.  Admittedly, that may be the
awfulness of the format on my computer, but I like to
think it's his scar!

All in all, YAY!  Can't wait for November!

Ara Davies
aravenna at bigfoot.com

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