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Questions about the Harry Potter Movies v.2
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Here's one I've been wondering about.
DH2 - Courtyard Apocalypse scene. The trio have just escaped from the spiders and ran between the giant's legs, and then we see them running. At that point, you here a voice scream, "Crucio!" That voice sounds, to me, just like Madam Trelawney's voice. Was it her, or am I mistaken?
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I did hear, "Crucio" as well but I never could make out who it was. I just assumed it was a death eater or one of the defenders of Hogwarts.
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perhaps i missed this in the books, but how did snape find harry in the forest of dean to give him the sword of griffindor? was it just thru the mirror? and if he wanted harry to have the sword, why did he make it so difficult to get?
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Phineas Nigellus heard Hermione explaining where they were and why, and passed the message on to Snape. The attainment of the sword needed to be under conditions of valor, so Snape made sure the condition was met.
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Question: What did Harry mean when he said "Let's end this like we began it - together" before he dragged Voldemort off the wall?
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No - it doesn't. And except for perhaps Draco, kids weren't DE's. I'm still convinced it was Trelawney. Quote:
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No, no explanation, but Hermione does say they are in the Forest of Dean while the bag is open, or something. Only makes sense to someone who has read the book. |
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There are lots of little things in the films that don't make sense because of more subtle omissions. Really shows how in the books all the smallest of things become very important.
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Not a perfect explanation, but it could work.
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Pollyjuice potion and Barty Crouch Jr.
Something I just realized this past weekend, watching the series on ABCFamily.
When Harry, Hermione, and Ron take the PJ potion, they still sound like themselves. Not only in CoS but also in DH1. It's a big plot point that they have to try to sound like the people they are impersonating. This is also true when the decoys take the potion at the beginning of DH1. So it's not that the potion affects underage people one way and adults another. But during GoF, when Barty Crouch Jr is impersonating Mad Eye Moody via PJ potion, he sounds exactly like Mad Eye Moody. I don't recall if we ever find out exactly when BC Jr takes over MadEye, but the transition is seamless. Why doesn't BC Jr sound like BC Jr? We hear enough of him in other places to know what he sounds like. And it isn't like MadEye. Now some might claim that he has learned how to impersonate MadEye's voice, but that is a very difficult thing to do 24/7. And when he meets up with his father after the water event, it's not the voice that gives him away. Was this just creative license on JKRowling's part? Or the movie makers? This has really started to bug me! |
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Jo always wrote that you receive all the characteristics of the Polyjuiced person/victim. That is movie corruption and obviously not very consistent.
Same thing with the animagus form – you don't lose your clothes and you don't need a wand (in the book). More movie corruption and not consistent here either. (In PoA) The first scene Peter's a rat - he transforms into Peter (wearing clothes) then using a wand [he doesn't need] he transforms back into a rat and leaves his clothes behind. In the book the wand is used to knock out the threatening people not to transform. But even in the same movie they couldn't be consistent all in one scene or the following scene. Does that help? |
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Again, as I said above, I think when it was known to the general audience that a person had taken polyjuice in the films their voice was "kept" to remind the audience of who "the person inside" actually was but that they would actually sound like the person they looked like to every other character in the film. We, the audience, didn't know until the end of the film/book that GOFMoody was not the real Moody but Barty Jr. taking polyjuice so his voice was not dubbed over with Barty Jr.'s voice to add to the suspense of the film. If PolyjuiceMoody's voice had been dubbed over with Barty Jr.'s voice the audience would have cottoned on to who Moody really was once we saw the Wizengamot scene where Barty Jr. was sentences and the suspense in the story would be blown way before it was meant to be. Quote:
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And I figured that the clothed or not-clothed issue was just dealt with magically. If you were wearing cloths during your transformation then your cloths tranformed, too. Just like how you'd keep your wand on you while you were transformed. In other words, I don't think it was like Twilight where the werewolves had to tie their cloths to their leg as they were in their wolf forms - Rita would never be able to pull that off, she transforms into a beetle and carrying a wad of cloths on her that's twenty times bigger than her animagus form is unrealistic. If we're talking realistic, here ![]() ![]()
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Well, for CoS the audio was filmed with Crabbe and Goyle, but Columbus decided to use Harry and Ron's voices instead in post production.
With GoF, the 'real' way was used, with Moody's voice. With DH1/2, I expect the team realised the inconsistency, and saw that they were able to use the trios voices, which would be easier to understand that using other peoples voices. Yes it does seem silly that no one realises that the voices are different, but I kind of act like only we as the audience notice the voices are the same ![]()
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"We still sound like ourrselves! You need to sound more like Crabbe."
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It's not consistent in the books as Hermione retains the power of human speech as a cat.
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Watching GOF, just before the champions enter the maze, I saw Karkaroff kiss his ring on his hand. Later, when Dumbledore was explaining about who would be entering first, Karkaroff was running his fingers up and down Krum's back. Odd.
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I always chalked that up to the fact that the polyjuice potion wasn't meant to be used for animal transformations, so its effects like speech change would be different in using cat hair than if Hermione had used human hair as planned. Nothing in canon to support that, of course, but that was my hypothesis, anyway.
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