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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Tree" data-source="post: 496751" data-attributes="member: 1455">You have a lot of legitimate concerns reapersaurus, but I'll try to explain those that are better explained in the book.  Some are just bad Hollywood moviemaking, and some are inherent in the differences between the film medium and the written medium.Get used to it.  It only gets darker from here.  There is still a kid-like story-world, but it has some seriously dark currents running through it.Would you climb out the window of a castle to follow a bunch of spiders?  They were likely not on the first floor you know.Besides, you have to bear in mind that due to the nature of movies, anything that is mentioned is automatically emphasized, because a movie is short and time is a premium.  However, in a book a lot of things can be mentioned without emphasizing them, because there's over 200 pages full of text and description.Harry and his friends also have an unfortunate tendency to try to fix things themselves.  They trust the elders (well, Dumbledore anyway) but aren't completely forthcoming about everything they know and observe, for a number of reasons.Coincidence?  The spiders fled because they were afraid of the basilisk.  I don't recall if Harry and company saw the spiders leaving at the scenes of the petrifications in the book, or if they saw them at some other time. Hagrid is a real softie when it comes to beasts.  He doesn't see them as dangerous, because they're all softies inside.  When he sent the boys to Aragog, he thought he was sending them to a friend who would help them.They're both Malfoys.  The young one is Draco Malfoy, and the older one is his father.Because he doesn't have a choice.  They're his guardians, as he doesn't have any parents or relatives.  In the books you get a definite feeling that Dumbledore has other reasons for sending him back to the Dursleys every summer.Because Dobby's an idiot. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Besides, you're assuming that Dobby knew exact the nature of Malfoy's plans, which may not be true.There's a reason for this, but I'm not going to tell you what it is, as it doesn't come out until later.Rowling has an amazing ability to tie all her books together.  There are little comments and descriptions that seem to be just interesting fluff or description, but which take on whole new meanings when the events of later book take place.  I'm sure there are things that I breezed over in the first four books that I'll suddenly realize "my god, so that's what that meant!" while reading one of the new ones.As an example, in the first book Harry talks to a snake.  At the time it was no big deal, right, just one magical power that Harry exibits among many.  In the second book, it takes on a whole new significance.Because they need a secret place to make their potion, where no one else will go? Coincidence.  The students were being escorted in groups between classes and the dinner haul, if you remember.Not everyone knew that Tom Riddle became Voldemort (Riddle disappeared for years after graduating, and came back very changed by his dark arts), thought Dumbledore and some others certainly did.  However, they didn't know that Tom Riddle had anything to do with the problems the school was having.  Only Ginny and Harry knew that, from reading the diary.Maybe they didn't see it.  They were a bit preoccupied with death threats and ancient terrors to be searching a girl for clues. The fact that she was petrified was clue enough.Suit yourself.  Personally I think it's brilliant.  Try it, it works.  Tom Marvolo Riddle.By that point both Harry and Ron believed Lockhart to be a vainglorious idiot, so were hostile with him.  Ron has a bit of a nasty streak.I'd be more frightened of Ron holding a broken wand than Ron holding an intact one.  There's no way to predict how it's going to react.  Perhaps, but not definitely.  He was going to help Ginny, and probably just put it down, thinking he'd be able to pick it up at the least sign of trouble. Remember that in the book the Basilisk isn't nearly as huge, and Harry was given the sword of a legendary hero.  Also bear in mind that mages were afraid of the basislisk because of it's gaze, not neccessarily its physical prowess. These are set up much better in the book, though I can't quite explain how. The domination was intermittent.  The diary wasn't intended as a resurrection device, but as a simple diary or guide.  Voldemort believed they he could never be destroyed, with good reason, so didn't feel the need for such little devices.</blockquote>

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