Dichroic Reflections

more on Azkaban

I forgot to say that one thing I liked about PoA is that is was as funny as the books -- though of course the jokes all have to be visual in the movie.

My favorite thing was in the Start of Term Feast, when the choir was singing. I chuckled at the toads reedeeping on cue with the choir, but I was guffawing when I realized just what the choir was singing: the Witches' Chorus from Macbeth. ("Double, double, toil and trouble...")

Other comments I'd forgotten: I don't quite understand why Dumbledore would periodically spout odd new-agey sentences that weren't in the book and didn't make much sense. Unless it was to pave the way for his scene with Harry and Hermione in the infirmary, where he spouted odd new-agey things that did make sense in context.

I do wish Lupin nad Sirius had been a wee bit better looking, but it's probably more realistic this way. Though Sirius almost had a moment there in his last talk with Harry when I could imagine he'd been handsome once. I'm just as glad there was less Snape, as (apparently unlike the rest of the female population) I have never found either deliberate cruelty or greasy hair particularly appealing. It may just be because I haven't seen Rickman in anything else, though.

The hippogriff was well done. I still hate the werewolf, though .... and I still wish Ron could have been a bit less sniveling. Save that for Draco.