Minerva McGonagall & The SS Movie Possible Clue? NOT a Coincidence

[Frank]

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     Hi everyone!

   My apologies if this has already been mentioned, and if this also 
may seem trivial.

   I know the movie versions and the book versions are quite 
different. 
   
    However, J.K. DOES have quite a LARGE amount of input into the 
movies ,the content is run by her before being filmed.
  
I am fairly new to this group, but I find that more attention is paid 
to certain characters over other ones, the same goes for theories.

 Minerva McGonagall doesnt seem to get much credit as being a real 
key to the whole septology, I feel that she is viewed as a "B LIST" 
Character.

    Here is what I actually found while re-watching the Harry Potter 
& the S.S. American Version ( Not sure if there is even a DIFFERENT 
English Version of the movies?? Could someone let me know if so??)

 Anyways, if you throw in your DVD, and if your DVD Player has a 
timer function that usually begins automatically when the movie 
starts, well at the 100:41 position of the movie, you will reach the 
scene AFTER Harry is caught flying by McGonagall, and after him and 
ron walk up to Hermione where she tells harry he "Won't Mess up", 
because Flying/Quidditch "Is in his blood".

    The specific scene is where she leads them to the trophy room, if 
at exactly 100:41 you PAUSE/FREEZE the movie, and then ZOOM into the 
NAMES displayed on the GRYFFINDOR QUIDDITCH TROPHY where the names 
are written, Including "JAMES POTTER" as "Seeker", with the Year 
marked 1970, if you ZOOM in even closer and to the right, you will 
very visibly read:

"M.G. McGonagall" 1971 on the name plate to the right of James 
Potter. ( To the left of James is "R.J.H. KING 1969" )

Now, I only brought this up b/c of JK's role on the content of the 
movies, I think this might of been purposely done. But I could be 
very wrong.

Does ANYONE have any theories on this? I dont know off the top of my 
head the exact time lines as to when McGonagall went to school, but I 
do remember her in POA saying how she remembered James and Sirius 
together at school while she was teaching. 

I am going out on a limb here, but I do feel that this "insight" may 
have some clues hiding within.

** Think of it this way, when reading a Book we are limited by our 
own minds and creativity as to the structure of a scene (in the book) 
and the details within that scene. No writer ever puts in EVERY 
single detail as to the layout of every object in a room etc... We 
simply rely on our own personal interpretation of what we are reading 
and from there we imagine/paint our own personal mental image as to 
how a scene we are reading would look like.

The image we use in our own mind is made more accurate when we watch 
the HP movies b/c we relate how harry should look like to the actors 
in the movies? ( We all do it).

Depending on how you interpret this, one could go as far as call this 
a "Contamination" of the mind b/c we are being given by association 
an official, realistic/humanistic view of real life actors who play 
the "character parts" in the movie, which inevitably will "taint" our 
minds when we read the books b/c we will go through a scene with DD 
and remember Richard Harris.

 Here is the flaw with ALL of this. How we think, imagine and see the 
actors and events in the books in our own minds is incorrect. The 
ONLY TRUE interpretation/acting out of the scenes currently ONLY lies 
in the mind of Mrs. JK Rowling.

That is why I feel the movies are an advantage to the readers, b/c JK 
has input ( and lots of it) as to the plot of the movie (i.e. She 
walked up to Robbie Coltrane {HAGRID} during the filming of one of 
the movies and whispered something in his ear relating to an upcoming 
event {or past} of Hagrids life etc... which therefor better helped 
him play his role) {I understand she did this with many of the 
actors}.
 
The translation of the books to a movie helps us all re-live the 
scenes in our minds, using specific mental images we have already 
associated to the books b/c of the movies. 

J.K.'s input to the movies I feel paints a very DETAILED and CLUE 
SPECIFIC image of the story ( given that some large parts of the book 
have been left out), is very important to the Observation I made 
because it just might of been done on purpose.


I WELCOME ALL Emails, Comments Or (SUB)-Theories, or Disagreements to 
my post, feel free to pick at it in great detail or brainstorm a new 
theory, or if your really confused.

Frank (Fever264 at Aol.com)