Amandageist's review

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" 
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> I *love* book Lupin; I find him compassionate, sympathetic, 
warm, sensitive. Which makes it so odd that I didn't warm to the 
movie Lupin at all; he was not a sympathetic character for me, I 
didn't develop any attachment to him, there was no emotional 
response. This may be because there were so many little 
interactions between him and Harry in the books, that the movie 
could not accommodate, and it is the "built up" relationship that I 
respond to.<<

That's funny because I never warmed to book Lupin as much as 
Harry did--I always felt he had his own agenda even before I 
picked up what it was. The one moment in the book where I feel 
for him is when he wants to touch Harry and doesn't.  


Amanda:
> --nobody mentions that Snape also knew Lupin and Black at 
school
> --nobody mentions why Lupin knows the map is a map

Pippin:
Leaving out the "prank"/map/animagus plotline makes sense to 
me. Put it in now and it would still   have to be reprised  in the 
film of Books Six or Seven, when that plotline is finally resolved. 
Might as well see it fresh then. 

Amanda:
> After the Boggart scene, in the later conversation with Lupin, 
why did Harry say he thought of Voldemort first? He manifestly 
didn't, or Voldemort would have appeared. In the movie, Harry 
*does* face the boggart and so we know exactly what his 
reaction was.<

"His first thought was Lord Voldemort--a Voldemort returned to 
full strength."--PoA ch 7.

Harry has apparently forgotten  this when he is talking to Lupin 
later, and says "honestly"  he didn't think about Voldemort at all. 
Since we can't eavesdrop on Harry's thoughts in the movie, we 
wouldn't have known that he  did think of Voldemort if the 
filmmakers hadn't improved his memory. I don't think Harry's 
omission is a Flint, BTW. There are hints all through PoA that 
Lupin is a legilimens--that's one of them.

Amanda:
> I thought it was stupid beyond words to make Lupin's boggart 
the actual moon, behind clouds. Why not just tattoo "werewolf" 
on his forehead? I considered that change a bit insulting to the 
intelligence of the audience.<

Erm, you mean the infinitesimal percentage of the audience that 
doesn't already know Lupin is a werewolf? The filmmakers are 
going to have a similar problem with OOP--everybody's going to 
know that Sirius has a toe tag already...might as well run with it.

Pippin
who thinks canon!Lupin's boggart is a prophecy orb anyway