I think the polyjuice potion lasts more than an hour, and duration seems to vary based on the person's size since all the HP decoys de-Harry at different times even though they drink in rapid sucession. Also inside the ministry they don't know exactly how long they have before it runs out.
In ASoIaF news, _Feast for Crows_ is narrated by a different reader than the first 3 books! And i don't like him! And he pronounces names differently! It's really bugging me, i might have to just read the hard copy instead of listening to the cds.
eta: after a little research, i can forgive the first actor (Roy Dotrice) for not doing the 4th book - apparently he was cast as Pycelle in the tv series and had to bow out due to med reasons. And if you can't film a relatively small part, how on earth could you narrate a tome that large. And he played Wesley's father on Angel. I totally don't recall ever meeting Wesley's parents. But still no love for new actor not researching how to pronounce "Viserys". No cookie for him.
I don't think we did - but there was a Wesley-Father bot in (I believe) the final season of Angel.
I finished PoA, and I am still so miffed that the movie cut out the explanation of the Marauder's Map. I mean, what the hell. Does the movie even explain why Harry's Patronus is a stag?
My recollections of the movies, having shown them to a friend who never read the books, is that they explain very little. They assume you've read the books.
I'm pretty sure in at least 2 of the moviee Harry talks about his Dad's patronus also being a stag.
Yeah, I don't think that most of the movies, except the first one, make much sense without the books. And once you get past the third or so, there's so much backstory that it would take about three movies per book to get in all the explanations. I thought OotP especially seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together, like they knew they had to get in certain things that would be important later, but there were so many of those that there wasn't really time to really get a plot.
It's not that his father's patronus was a stag, it's because he was an Animagus that turned into a stag.
So...yeah. Not a sentence I thought I'd type.
Wow, I'd totally forgotten that tidbit.
I spent a lot of time reading Marauders-era fic.
If I had millions of dollars, I'd pay for those girls to finish The Shoebox Project.
