CoS scene.

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> Severus:"I seem to remember the JKR insisted on the Knockturn Alley
> scene, with Harry in the store, being left in the film. I also think it 
> has something to do with Harry's hands, the hand of Glory grabbed him
> in this scene, and there was not any other reason to have this in the
> film. The conversation between Malfoy and the store keep didn't
> happen, but the hand scene did."

I thought I would post the legend which relates to the Hand of Glory,
which varies from region to region, but always deals with a dead,
withered, and detached hand:

"One dark night, when all was shut up, there came a tap at the door of
a lone inn in the middle of a barren moor. The door was opened, and
there stood without, shivering and shaking, a poor beggar, his rags
soaked with rain, and his hand white with cold. He asked piteously for
a lodging, and it was cheerfully granted him; there was not a spare
bed in the house, but he could lie on the mat before the kitchen fire,
and welcome.

So this was settled, and everyone in the house went to bed except the
cook, who from the back kitchen could see into the large room through
a pane of glass let into the door. She watched the beggar, and saw
him, as soon as he was left alone, draw himself up from the floor,
seat himself at the table, extract from his pocket a brown withered
human hand, and set it upright in the candlestick. He then anointed
the fingers, and applying a match to them, they began to flame. Filled
with horror, the cook rushed up the back stairs, and endeavored to
arouse her master and the men of the house. But all was in vain--they
slept a charmed sleep; so in despair she hastened down again, and
placed herself at her post of observation.

She saw the fingers of the hand flaming, but the thumb remained
unlighted, because one inmate of the house was awake. The beggar was
busy collecting the valuables around him into a large sack, and having
taken all he cared for in the large room, he entered another.

On this the woman ran in, and, seizing the light, tried to extinguish
the flames. But this was not so easy. She blew at them, but they burnt
on as before. She poured the dregs of a beer jug over them, but they
blazed up the brighter. As a last resource, she caught up a jug of
milk, and dashed it over the four lambent flames, and they died out at
once. Uttering a loud cry, she rushed to the door of the apartment the
beggar had entered, and locked it. The whole family was aroused, and
the thief easily secured and hanged."

Hopes this helps sort things out, or add to the confusion. Either one
is okay with me!  ;)

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