JKR hints at secret

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 74332

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eligro2000" <eligro2000 at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jakedjensen" 
<jakejensen at h...> 
> wrote:
> > At one point, the screenwriter says something like, "well there 
was 
> something I wanted to take out and I went to Jo and asked her if it 
> was important and she said yes, that needs to stay because it is 
> important for the whole series."
> 
> 
> There is a scene in the book where Harry and Ron, while Crabbed and 
> Goyled via the Polyjuice Potion, bump into Percy in the dungeons 
> outside of Slytherin House. In the movie, 
> there is no reference to any girlfriend. The encounter with Percy, 
> however, remains. I noticed the scene in the movie ... and 
> immediately wondered why it had been left in. If the scene in the 
> book was truly about the girlfriend, there was no reason to keep it 
> in the film (where no girlfriend existed). So there must have been 
> some determination that the scene NEEDED to stay in, i.e, that the 
> Percy encounter was too significant to delete. 
> El

Valky,
I think you are on to it here El.
This is such a measly insignificant scene I just *has* to be the one.
The most interesting thing is that Percy could have been left out of 
this sooo easily and he wasn't.
Penelope Clearwater has her spot in the Nearly Headless Nick scene 
and is not even mentioned here. Where in the book this scene refers 
to her. And as in the book Harry and Ron!Crabbe and Goyle need only 
the introduction of Draco to find their way to Slytherin common room.

Percy has absolutely no coherent reason to be in that scene!
I absolutely agree that this is the single most anomalous and 
unassuming scene in the entire movie.
For me it has all the trademarks of a JKR clue. It's all *too* 
innocent not to be.
Percy Weasley loitering near Slytherin house during the maraud of the 
Slytherin heir.....hmmm 
Percy was Head Boy and I assuming that that is an award for academia, 
does Percy know a *lot* about Salazar Slytherin on the other hand he 
is an ambitious boy, perhaps such a power as Slytherins own legacy 
was simply irresistable....hmmm