Trailer Talk!

Let's talk about the trailer everyone!! It's been a few days since it was leaked on to the web, and I'm sure by now most of you have had a chance to take a look at it. For some of us, more than once, I'm sure!! Since the leak, the trailer has been pulled off of the original website source - TrailerAddict.com - but you can still find a few versions on YouTube. Considering how many copies of it are on YouTube alone, I'm sure it will be a while before Warner Brothers gets to all of them.

Just a quick note before I start writing about my thoughts, MTV took a frame-by-frame look at the trailer and you can see their timeline here. 

So, let's begin!

I thought the trailer was great - 1 minute and 33 seconds of unadulterated bliss! It included bits and pieces of everything I wanted to see, except for perhaps Weasley's Wizard Weezes - I would have loved to see a quick glimpse of that. But, considering the first trailer was dedicated entirely to the darkest part of the book - the life of Voldemort and exploring ways in which Harry will be required to destroy his enemy, this was definitely a nice change. 

One of the two more dramatic parts of the trailer was indeed the cave scene. I have been wondering for some time how this scene would be filmed, especially since the readers of the book haven't seen any illustrated representation of it yet. I did read somewhere a while back that the filmmakers went to remote parts of England and Ireland's coasts to film this scene, but that didn't really provide a vivid picture of the scene in my mind. When we see it in the trailer though, you can tell that it totally fits. The cave looks really vast, yet extremely isolated, and you can see why Tom Riddle/Voldemort chose this spot to hid one of his Horcruxes. 

Something that I liked about the cave scene is how the wall dissolves upon the touch of Dumbledore's hand. The special effects have really improved since the first movie and I'm really glad that it didn't come off as too unbelievable. You also get a quick glimpse of Dumbledore's injured hand here, which we haven't seen before. It definitely looks withered and scarred.

 
Then there is the ring of fire! How amazing does that look?! When I first read this in the book, I just picture a think ring of fire - rope-like almost. What we see here is far more grand and far more powerful. I love it! 

The second part of the more dramatic parts of the trailer is the attack on the Burrow. This, as you know, is a scene that was added to the film and was not in book 6.  You can tell from what we see in the trailer that this is going to be quite an incredible scene in the movie. It looks like an incredibly large attack, with nearly all the Death Eaters present. We get a better look at Greyback here too, who deflects a spell that Harry casts. 

Let's see, what else...

I loved the apparition scene between Dumbledore and Harry - it looks fantastic! I also like the scenes with Draco. We haven't seen much of him in the last few movies, so it's nice to see more of Tom Felton here. We see him go into the Room of Requirement and practicing spells on the Vanishing Cabinet. We also see him put the Invisibility Cloak over Harry on the Hogwarts Express from the beginning of the book.

One of my favorite characters in the series is Ron and we see a lot of him in the trailer, which is great. I felt like he wasn't given much in the past few movies either, but he seems to be seeing a lot of action this time around. The most notable scene from the trailer is the big kiss between him and Lavender Brown, who many believe is actually Hermoine, in the Gryffindor Common Room. This is really interesting because in the book, a similar kiss happens between Harry and Ginny. We don't know how, or if, this scene will be filmed though.

Returning to more darker part of the trailer, we see a scene with Professor McGonagall, Hagrid, and students in the Hogwarts courtyard. In it, we see Professor McGonagall conjure up lightening. It's a bit unclear how this scene fits into the movie and what part of the book it's from. Personally, I think it's a scene after Dumbledore's death - perhaps to get rid of the Dark Mark over Hogwarts? 

Though the trailer was fantastic and we got to see so many snippets from the movie, perhaps my favorite part was at the end - the scene with Harry and Hermoine in the library joking around about being the "Chosen One." In the scene, we see Romilda Vane staring at Harry and him glancing back at her - definitely some flirting going on! Hermoine snaps him out of it and says, "She's only interested in you because she thinks you're the 'Chosen One,' " "But I am the Chosen One," Harry deadpans back, getting deservedly whacked on the head with a rolled-up copy of The Daily Prophet. 

I love this scene because it brings a great sense of levity at the end of quick cuts and lightens up a dark and bleak picture of the wizarding world. It shows Harry and Hermoine being teenagers and joking around while there is an ongoing war outside, and even inside, Hogwarts. Though it is a funny part, it's certainly out of character for Harry; he has never boasted about being the Chosen One to anybody. Throughout the final books, at least after the return of Voldemort, Harry does become more worried and reserved, so it's nice to see something this light and carefree. 

Well, that's all for my thoughts friends! Feel free to banter away about what you think!