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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 3647767" data-attributes="member: 2795">When Maggie Smith confronts Umbrage about torturing Potter (and, IIRC, she even uses that word to describe what went on), Potter shoots an angry glance (thus very nearly exhausting Daniel Radcliffe's on-screen emotional range) at Hermione and Ron, the actors of whom manage to pull enough talent to look guilty.I'm not discussing the book. I'm criticizing the movie.They had her outnumbered about a dozen to one, and they did a fine enough job against the generically bland evil wizards at the end (at least until the evil wizards turned into smoke and resorted to the unstoppable tactic of grabbing the kids). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Of course they were. They were children forced to write lines that resulted in self-mutilation. I'm certain even the most uncritical definition of "torture" would have to concede that the children were indeed tortured. Even you admit as much, since you describe the exact same punishment inflicted on Potter as torture.A number of people in the movie certainly knew what was going on, especially after the mass torture.Again, I just don't get it. The Potter movies are, at the absolute best, mediocre fair. Most of them have been train wrecks, but without the vicarious excitement. Perhaps the books are better. I don't know, since the first one couldn't hold my interest for more than 100 hundreds pages (putting it the same league as Interview with a Vampire).</blockquote>

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