Brigadoon,the True Story (Silly Post)

[Angela Boyko]

No: HPFGUIDX 15329

From: Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at mindspring.com>

> The movie _Brigadoon_ is on right now.  Now I am someone
> who likes to try to associate everything possible to Harry's
> world, and when the old man (forget his name) is telling the history
> of Brigadoon, he talks about how anxious they were to get rid of
> "evil" witches.  This make me wonder if there's another side to the
> story, which I outline below (I apologize _a priori_ to any
> _Brigadoon_ fans here):

Ooh, Gene Kelly and Harry Potter, two of my favourite guys!

<snip>

> In a fit of rage, Hogwarts' current headmaster, Bowman Wright,
> decided to take action before Hogsmeade and the school
> itself were seriously endangered... He first cast a memory
> chram on the deranged minister, who then wandered
> the Scotland moors with an erased mind for the rest of his life.
> Then Wright cast a curse on Brigadoon itself.  A curse of a
> very strange sort: Every night evermore, when its citizens went
> to sleep, they would wake up a hundred years later, which if
> nothing else, did much to cripple their ability to persecute
> wizards in the centuries to come.

I beg to differ. The residents of Brigadoon *like* their curse. They
*like* being protected from the outside world by magic (well, except for
one, but that would spoil the movie). They do not consider the magical
protection process as evil, they view it as Divine Intervention. (Hey! A
movie about magic loving Christians!)

But I like the genesis of your post. My friends and I, as much as we
adore Gene, can't help snickering when he and Van Johnson tap dance in
the village square. Now we know how they can make tapping sands in the
dirt - magic!

And now I know where all the clans appear from to attend the wedding -
they Apparated!

Maybe the Brigadoon villagers are actually wizard folk - I would like to
think that some of the awful costumes come from their attempt to dress
as Muggles (I'm speaking about the plaid pants with the pattern on the
diagonal here).

Don't get me wrong, I like Brigadoon because I like every Gene Kelly
movie, and there is a lot of good stuff in it. Doesn't rank in my top
ten, but I do recommend it.

Oooh, I feel a filk based on a Gene Kelly song coming on! :-)

Angela
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