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Grant - I never got that Snape was Semitized until someone mentioned it to me and pointed out one of the early descriptions where "hook-nosed" and "sallow" are next to each other, and I suddenly went Oh shit, yeah! (Didn't notice it particularly in the film, though, Jack: possibly because I was just staring at Rickman with my critical sensors turned off.)
It was another friend who pointed out what I think is both one of the most potentially interesting things about the books & their major flaw, which is the mismatch between "school-sized evil" (where the school is a microcosm of the universe & Slytherin is evil within that context) and "world-sized evil" (where the school is part of an entire socio-cultural system and positioned as good against Voldemort). This is kind of why I like the fanfiction better, because it can work on these discontinuities more interestingly than the books do.
Oh, and yes, leaving out the stuff about Harry thinking he's evil (again... poor little sod) was a down-side to the film: it makes his character less coherent, it makes the confrontation with the Sorting Hat less significant and it makes the decision to take the law into his own hands & force Lockhart into the toilets nigh-on-incomprehensible. But the bit where he suddenly starts speaking Parseltongue during the duel is another of my top 'n' moments of children's films ever. Mmmmmmm. |
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