i had the impression that Cormac and Romilda were new students tranferred from elsewhere.
Nope. Romilda at least I know has been around for a while. I can't say for sure about Cormac, but he's probably been there from the beginning as well. Slugghorn mentioned his family was well known, and Hogwart's is the only wizarding school in England, so I don't know where he would have come from.
although the not talking to people in your class does happen. kids have their little cliques.
This is true, but these kids are 16/17 now, and they've been going to school with the same set of people since they were 11. It seems like the class sizes at Hogwarts are pretty small as well. Like in a given year it seems like there might only be 100 or so kids, and then there classes seem to be around 10-15 people, and with numbers like that everyone would have some kind of interaction with everyone else in SIX YEARS, cliques or no cliques.
it was a pretty visual though lol.
That it was.
it's got half blood prince in the title so you'd think most of the movie would be about him, but no. i haven't read the books so don't know if there's more that's missing. the revelation about Snape at the end was just so out of the blue.
The movie really blew this. In the book there were clues leading you to the revelation of who the half-blood prince was. The movie was like, "Oh, by the way it's Snape", whereas the book actually had a built up so it wasn't a WTF revelation.
Honestly, I would have liked it if the movie had concentrated on giving us more plot (clues to Snape, more on the horcruxes and the search for them, etc) then spending so much time on romantic issues I didn't care about.
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Date: 2009-07-21 05:59 am (UTC)Nope. Romilda at least I know has been around for a while. I can't say for sure about Cormac, but he's probably been there from the beginning as well. Slugghorn mentioned his family was well known, and Hogwart's is the only wizarding school in England, so I don't know where he would have come from.
although the not talking to people in your class does happen. kids have their little cliques.
This is true, but these kids are 16/17 now, and they've been going to school with the same set of people since they were 11. It seems like the class sizes at Hogwarts are pretty small as well. Like in a given year it seems like there might only be 100 or so kids, and then there classes seem to be around 10-15 people, and with numbers like that everyone would have some kind of interaction with everyone else in SIX YEARS, cliques or no cliques.
it was a pretty visual though lol.
That it was.
it's got half blood prince in the title so you'd think most of the movie would be about him, but no. i haven't read the books so don't know if there's more that's missing. the revelation about Snape at the end was just so out of the blue.
The movie really blew this. In the book there were clues leading you to the revelation of who the half-blood prince was. The movie was like, "Oh, by the way it's Snape", whereas the book actually had a built up so it wasn't a WTF revelation.
Honestly, I would have liked it if the movie had concentrated on giving us more plot (clues to Snape, more on the horcruxes and the search for them, etc) then spending so much time on romantic issues I didn't care about.