Lupin Loved Lily

[David Burgess]

No: HPFGUIDX 99959

Snow:
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>A bit more exposed to Lupin's character in the upcoming movie than in
>the book. They may have let the cat out of the bag a bit early. Go to
>this site, scroll down to trailer that says "I recognized you
>immediately"
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>http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=trailer&id=1808404334&intl=us
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>Snow-aka Kathy King

Sorry; I've been away from the action for a while; turmoil at the office.

I watched this clip and saw, not necessarily that Lupin loved Lily, but
that she was one of those people that everybody loved.  Always there to
help, looking out to do the right thing: everything that's good and noble
about Harry is a reflection of his mother.

The problem with the movie (movies in general, in fact) is that, in order
to make sense of specific actions but compress the story into a 'single
bag of popcorn' event, some things have to be alluded to (all mention of
the dead chickens is deleted from CoS, except for one fleeting glimpse
when Hagrid runs into DD's office) and others have to be distilled.  This
book is the first glimpse we get into the lives of the senior Potters, so
a lot of what we enjoyed in allusion and word pictures in canon gets
dropped into the film as exposition in one conversation.  We have to
understand, for the movie to work, that Lily was universally beloved. 
>From the book, we get hints and drops here and there of how neat she was. 
In the movie, we get all of that from Lupin.

I'm going to the midnight show tonight.  I hope I"m not disapoointed.