Let's play a Harry Potter game!!!! (probable spoilers)

[XemaSab]

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:

[intheflow]

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.

[CBHagman]

6. Couldn't it also be the maze?

There are mazes in crucial scenes in both The Shining and The Goblet of Fire.

[XemaSab]

7. That was my thinking, yes

But other scenes work too. :D

[intheflow]

11. Good one!

I hadn't thought of that connection. :thumbsup:

[intheflow]

2. Second question: When Harry Met Sally

:)

[XemaSab]

3. Moaning Myrtle!

:D

[intheflow]

14. Not what I was thinking of,

but it works! :thumbsup:

[CBHagman]

17. Were you thinking of Ron and Hermione's squabbling...

...and then falling in love?

[intheflow]

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:

[XemaSab]

4. Third question: Name of the Rose

:D

[intheflow]

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.

[XemaSab]

22. Can you think of another one?

Think last few chapters of both books. :D

[intheflow]

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! :)

[LWolf]

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.

[jgraz]

8. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

[XemaSab]

12. Star Wars & Harry Potter both have petrified people

"It" :D

[jgraz]

13. Hermione frozen in Carbonite!

Not the scene I was thinking of. Hint: think book 7



There are actually two really good choices...

[XemaSab]

18. "This is not the bank vault you are looking for."

:o

[intheflow]

10. Norma Rae

:D

[CBHagman]

15. Hermione's founding of SPEW?

That's all I could think of. :shrug:

[intheflow]

16. Right on the nose!

:hi:

[intheflow]

20. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

:)

[XemaSab]

21. I can think of one for Raiders of the Lost Ark

:D