So I was eager to see the real thing, you see ... :-)
LOL! Oh, I get it now! Maybe in the deleted scenes on the DVD (if they have any...)?
Still, that AK may be part of the reason why the falling-through-the-veil just didn't work for me. An AK is supposed to be instantaneous - it hits the victim and bang! - it's lights out. Sirius looking regretfully at Harry, then softly floating backwards into the void just seemed wrong, to me. Small thing, though.
Oh yeah, I get it. I guess this is just a moment in which movie!canon worked better for me than the actual canon, just as the movie!possession worked for me better too. But canon-wise, AK is indeed instant, and Sirius dies from falling into the veil, not from the spell that hits him, of course. But, losing a parent(al figure) is so tragic, that for me, the visual effect and sentimentality of it was more touching than the canon abruptness was. I loved OotP the book, but Sirius' exit always grated on me. Perhaps they should have just not used the AK in particular; but I understand where it does work to give the non-bookreading audience another glimpse of this spell that is so horrible.
Yeah, do you remember how Ginny was so awesome and wonderful in fighting all those horrible DEs in the tower at the end of the sixth book?
Nope, I didn't remember. Must have repressed it. ;)
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LOL! Oh, I get it now! Maybe in the deleted scenes on the DVD (if they have any...)?
Still, that AK may be part of the reason why the falling-through-the-veil just didn't work for me. An AK is supposed to be instantaneous - it hits the victim and bang! - it's lights out. Sirius looking regretfully at Harry, then softly floating backwards into the void just seemed wrong, to me. Small thing, though.
Oh yeah, I get it. I guess this is just a moment in which movie!canon worked better for me than the actual canon, just as the movie!possession worked for me better too. But canon-wise, AK is indeed instant, and Sirius dies from falling into the veil, not from the spell that hits him, of course. But, losing a parent(al figure) is so tragic, that for me, the visual effect and sentimentality of it was more touching than the canon abruptness was. I loved OotP the book, but Sirius' exit always grated on me. Perhaps they should have just not used the AK in particular; but I understand where it does work to give the non-bookreading audience another glimpse of this spell that is so horrible.
Yeah, do you remember how Ginny was so awesome and wonderful in fighting all those horrible DEs in the tower at the end of the sixth book?
Nope, I didn't remember. Must have repressed it. ;)