PS/SS - chapters 2-5 post DH look

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 181170

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
> <dumbledore11214@> wrote:
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> > Here we go again, some old lines that jumped at me in new light
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> 
> zanooda:
> 
> Alla's posts made me look through some chapters of PS/SS, and I
> noticed that the way to open the archway to Diagon Alley in Ch.5 is a
> little different from the way it is described in DH, when
> Bellatrix!Hermione opens it in "Gringotts" chapter. In PS/SS only one
> brick is mentioned, with a hole appearing in it, but in DH  "the
> bricks began to whirl and spin: a hole appeared in the middle of them"
> etc. 
> 
> This observation has nothing to do with anything, actually :-), but as
> we are having a post-DH look at things here ... . It seems to me that
> the later DH description is influenced by the SS movie - this is
> exactly how Hagrid opens the archway there :-).

Geoff:
interestingly, I wonder if the way it opened in "the medium 
which dare not speak its name" was what JKR visualised. In 
"The Philosopher's Stone" chapter 5, Hagrid counted bricks 
up and along before tapping - which is what he did in the 
DVD - and this outcome seems to be the logical way of doing 
it. After all, if the description in the first book is accurate 
then, as the hole grew bigger, the other bricks had got to 
go *somewhere*.