Harry/James, Crabbe or Goyle/Snape connection

[Ms Mo Me]

No: HPFGUIDX 100280

Message: 4
   Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:12:25 -0000
   From: imamommy at sbcglobal.net
Subject: Harry/James, Crabbe or Goyle/Snape connection

imamommy:
Something just hit me upside the head (owww!)  In the
PoA movie, in
the scene when Harry is wearing the IC and throwing
snowballs and
taunting Malfoy and his cronies, he pulls down one of
the boys pants
to reveal a lurid set of boxers.  (Sorry, I don't
remember which kid,
and I still am not sure which is which.)  Now, it
doesn't happen in
the book this way, so the canonical reference is
shaky, but it seems
an interesting connection between Harry and James'
behavior in
"Snape's Worst Memory".  Why does Harry torment Crabbe
and Goyle? 
merely because they exist?  Remember, according to
Sirius, Snape was
sort of Lucius' stooge.  (Granted he has more brains
than C&G put
together).  I think it's an interesting similarity,
anyway.

Comments?

imamommy


I don't think there is a connection.
A. Partially, I think it is the movie that plays that
scene up a bit.  And 
B. In Snape's memory, it is James and Sirius that
instigate the taunting, yet it is Malfoy who
instigates it in PoA and Harry gets back at him. 
Crabbe and Goyle also join in on the taunting on a
regular basis, and HP was giving them the same
appreciation back under the IC.
Also, a huge difference is Malfoy regularily taunts
HP, where, for the most part, Harry tries to avoid
him.

So, no, I don't think the movie was trying to make a
comparison.  I just think the pulling pants down was
added for slapstick humor and nothing else.

~Mo





	
		
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