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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 10:24 PM
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Let's play a Harry Potter game!!!! (probable spoilers)
I love Rowling, but I will freely admit that she has paid homage to a wide slice of Western literature and film, hence the game. :D Hell, even if she hasn't "paid homage," it should be entertaining to think of similar scenes or devices in other works. :D

The questioner (me, for the first post) names a book or film, and the responder names a Harry Potter scene that is similar to a scene in the book or film.

There may be more than one right answer for each question.

First question: The Shining. :evilgrin:
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 07:36 PM
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1. The Shining:
Any scene where Harry witnesses through telepathy Voldemort torturing and killing people. Danny in The Shining was another boy who psychically witnessed awful things happening.
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-06-07 11:30 AM
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6. Couldn't it also be the maze?
There are mazes in crucial scenes in both The Shining and The Goblet of Fire.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-09-07 01:10 PM
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7. That was my thinking, yes
But other scenes work too. :D
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 04:09 PM
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11. Good one!
I hadn't thought of that connection. :thumbsup:
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-28-07 07:38 PM
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2. Second question: When Harry Met Sally
:)
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 10:49 PM
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3. Moaning Myrtle!
Edited on Mon Jul-30-07 10:49 PM by XemaSab
:D
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 08:25 PM
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14. Not what I was thinking of,
but it works! :thumbsup:
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-16-07 09:49 AM
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17. Were you thinking of Ron and Hermione's squabbling...
...and then falling in love?
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 02:17 PM
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19. Yes!
A classic example of romantic comedy.

Honestly, I would never have seen it coming if someone didn't clue me into it as I was reading Goblet of Fire. :dunce:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 10:49 PM
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4. Third question: Name of the Rose
:D
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 04:04 PM
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9. The horcrux diary.
Easily as deadly as the ink in The Name of the Rose.

Also, the mentor relationship between the monk and his appretice mirrors Dumbledore and Harry, somewhat.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 11:27 PM
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22. Can you think of another one?
Think last few chapters of both books. :D
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-31-07 11:46 AM
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23. It's been 20 years since I read Name of the Rose.
I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night, never mind the last few chapters of a fictional book read so many years ago! :)
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-31-07 09:58 AM
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5. I will try,
but there are simply way too many films I haven't seen. Or I haven't seen them in years and have only a fuzzy recollection of them.

I'll lurk until I see something familiar, lol.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-09-07 09:50 PM
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8. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 07:01 PM
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12. Star Wars & Harry Potter both have petrified people
"It" :D
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 08:04 PM
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13. Hermione frozen in Carbonite!
Edited on Fri Aug-10-07 08:21 PM by jgraz
Not the scene I was thinking of. Hint: think book 7



There are actually two really good choices...
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-17-07 02:43 PM
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18. "This is not the bank vault you are looking for."
:o
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-10-07 04:08 PM
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10. Norma Rae
:D
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-11-07 09:48 AM
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15. Hermione's founding of SPEW?
That's all I could think of. :shrug:
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-11-07 01:14 PM
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16. Right on the nose!
:hi:
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 02:31 PM
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20. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
:)
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 10:26 PM
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21. I can think of one for Raiders of the Lost Ark
:D
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