Hm. I disagree with the things about Harry and his parents. Remus probably knew how much Harry would want to know that, what with knowing very little about who his parents actually were, and I think after growing up with the Dursleys, he's definitely idealised his parents. (See also: OotP.)

("must you be an insufferable know-it-all?")

I loved that they kept that line in. LOVE!

I don't believe that Draco would wimper like a baby when Hermione puts a wand to his neck. Unless JK Rowling is planning on having him turn against the DE when he sees actual violence. Strange reasoning for a kid who looks forward to seeing a hippogriff's beheading.

Funnily enough, that's actually a theory of mine. Draco's definitely exhibited little love foer actual physical violence so far. he's a spoiled little daddy's boy, and I can definitely imagine he'd be all "Bwuh? What? Hey, that hurts, I want my mum!"

This is why I don't think the DEs would even want Draco. I mean, in OotP, we can see they're a pretty hands-on bunch--they all turn up for the big fight, and there's not even a minion in sight, and in GoF, they're all up there juggling Muggles, whereas Draco prefers to let his goons and minions handle the phsysical stuff.


I also think he's rather idealised what being a DE is all about, and he's going to get a nasty wake-up call when he's resuired to get his hands dirty.

*nod* Lucius, I think, sees Draco as a younger version of himself, a Lucius 2.0, if you will, and the idea that perhaps Draco has his own ideas about his future just doesn't occur to him.

Yeah, that's the other thing, I can't see Draco being very happy about the whole "Kiss the Dark Lord's Ass" aspect of being a DE. He wants to lead, and he'll kiss ass in order to get into a position of power, but I do think he'd be smart enough to realise that Voldemort (unlike, say, Umbridge) does not share power at all.

My theory is that he'd rather bow for Voldemort than for "Muggle-lovers". He's quite smart, but he's also really quite prejudiced, and he doesn't want to share his world with "mudbloods".

Exactly, he has to pick a side--everyone'll have to pick a side, really, but that's going deeper into my HP theories than I can coherently explain right now.

Hm. Quite possibly, if he doesn't get killed by Draco first.

Werewolf? Where wolf?

Hm. Weren't there as many references to werewolves in the movie as there were in the books? There was Harry's Boggart turning into a moon (which was much clearer in the movie than it was in the books), Lupin's tiredness before the Christmas holidays, Snape taking over his class and assigning the werewolf assay, and finally Hermione revealing the 'truth' about Lupin in the Shack. The only other thing I remember from the books are Hermione's allusions that she knows why Lupin is absent (she says something like 'Isn't it obvious?' but doesn't elaborate, as she isn't talking to Harry and Ron at that point). Oh, and the Wolfsbane Potion, of course. Yeah, it was rather weird when Sirius suddenly mentioned that -- how'd he know about it? And it was never explained afterwards.

Severus grumpy. Why? (ah no, people don't worry about why, they just assume he is)

*snickers* Yes, they do. His anger at Lupin and Black didn't make any sense, no. And it's funny, because he does give Lupin the look when he sits next to him at the start of the school year, like he does in the books, so apparently they are assuming the background story is there…

The ending was long-winded and boring.

I liked the ending with the broomstick, but the part where they retrace their steps is boring.

He's an adult, he should've done it himself

No, I agree with Dumbledore that it should have been Harry. He let Peter get away, and because of him Sirius won't be able to prove his innocence. This is Harry's chance to set something right, to perhaps not feel as guilty as he would have. And Sirius is the only family Harry has left -- this is his chance to feel like he can do something for his family. And yeah, it's not 'Dumbledore and the Prisoner of Azkaban', hee. :-)

As if they couldn't just have gone back twice, masked themselves and taken pettigrew to bring his body to the ministry.

That would've been one hell of a risk, wouldn't it? Surely they won't underestimate themselves. I can imagine the 'original' HHR knocking the disguised Harry and Hermione unconscious. Or things changeing in such a way that someone would've died. I think that's what Hermione says in the book at some point -- if you change one little thing, you could have a completely different outcome, and not necessarily a good one. They end up only doing the most necessary things in the book -- intervening when someone's about to die. Even with that, they might've created a catastrophy for all the others. (What if the Dementors, peeved at being banished from the lake, had attacked the castle and all its inhabitants? What if Hagrid had got arrested after all?) Luckily, they didn't.

And if time turners are illegal, why let hermione have one? If she wants to take all the classes, let her take her third year twice. For god's sake!

I chalked that up to 'the ways of the wizarding world'. Besides, letting Hermione do her year twice would be like punishing her for being zealous. IIRC, Hogwarts got permission from the Ministry to give, or well, borrow one to Hermione.

Remus was very queer though. As was that hug with Sirius. Still. The tash. It's just not good.

Hee, no. No tash. *g*

The boy has blue eyes, not emerald green (for one).

I don't remember whether movie!Lily's got blue or green eyes. If she's got blue ones, too, he still has his mother's eyes. :-)

You're 13 kid, you're meant to hate your father.

I'm with Melle, here. It's a bit hard to hate your father when you've never met him.

Albus was weird. I'm not a fan I think (the elastic to tie his beard together? the "dreams" speech?)

I'm not a fan, either. And yeah, the elastic, what was up with that? I don't remember the dreams speech…