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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2614754" data-attributes="member: 151">The movie reduces their presence.  Early in the book, Harry encounters what he believes may be a Grim, and they are discussed.  The name is a reference to a specific kind of black dog, the Church Grim.  There are also 'shucks' which are headless black dogs.  The implication is that when you see a Grim, like hearing a banshee's wail, death is near.  Black Dogs are considered to be guardians of the paths of the dead, among other things.  In 'Azkaban' [spoiler]Harry's uncle can shapeshift into a large black dog, who appears several times in the book.  Several times in the book Harry incorrectly (based on other characters info) believes that he's seeing a Grim, foretelling doom.  In the movie, this plot aspect is dropped almost entirely.[/spoiler]Check out this paragraph referring to black dogs, and see how many D&D monsters you can identify from the common myth family:"In the Quantock Hills of Somerset the black dog was frequently seen and called the 'Gurt Dog'. Cornwall has various tales of the 'Devil's Dandy (or Dando) Dogs', Devon has the 'Yeth (Heath) or Wisht Hounds. Other local names include Barguest, Black Shag, Padfoot or Hooter. Just to be different, in West Yorkshire the common name is 'Guytrash'; in Lancashire this is reduced to 'Trash' or changed to 'Skriker'. Further afield, a particularly unpleasant phantom pooch frequented Peel Castle on the Isle of Man in the seventeenth century and was known as the Moddey Dhoo, or Mauthe Doog. "</blockquote>

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