Lol, so much for not getting sucked in... I was about to reply to this earlier when I decided I'd just ask my mom if I could watch her movie! So after having watched it tonight, I finally figured out why I thought Draco said it twice! And I watched the video you linked... and there's a couple differences to the movie.
In the first scene with the apple, I don't know if you can really hear it in the video, but there's noise in the background when they pass something through the cabinets. I always used to think that that noise meant that the spell worked, which would agree with your theory above. I asked my mom about the apple too, and she said at first that the apple was bitten, but after watching it, she changed her mind and said she thinks a piece of the apple came off with magic, like the magic of the spell not working separated the two pieces (similar to Ron getting splinched in Deathly Hallows). I still hold that apple was bitten... when I was playing the movie, I paused it and looked closely...I say bitten! Lol Oh, and I found the part where he says the spell twice! He says it once, there's the noise, the apple disappears, and he opens the cabinet to find it gone. He shuts the cabinet, says the spell once, no noise, says spell again and there's a noise this time, and he opens the cabinet to find the apple!
In the second scene with the bird, in the video you don't see it, but the movie also shows it with the cabinet in Borgin and Burkes, and the bird chirping (still plainly alive!), and then Draco opens the cabinet to find the bird dead... And again you get that little noise that I think means the spell worked both times, when he's putting the bird in and right before he opens the cabinet.
In my opinion, with the bird still plainly being alive in B&B I always thought that meant what you said above... that he was sorta terrified at the thought that he actually got it to work.
Again, I apologize for my rambly thoughts, but thank you for making me think today!
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Date: 2013-10-13 05:26 am (UTC)In the first scene with the apple, I don't know if you can really hear it in the video, but there's noise in the background when they pass something through the cabinets. I always used to think that that noise meant that the spell worked, which would agree with your theory above. I asked my mom about the apple too, and she said at first that the apple was bitten, but after watching it, she changed her mind and said she thinks a piece of the apple came off with magic, like the magic of the spell not working separated the two pieces (similar to Ron getting splinched in Deathly Hallows). I still hold that apple was bitten... when I was playing the movie, I paused it and looked closely...I say bitten! Lol Oh, and I found the part where he says the spell twice! He says it once, there's the noise, the apple disappears, and he opens the cabinet to find it gone. He shuts the cabinet, says the spell once, no noise, says spell again and there's a noise this time, and he opens the cabinet to find the apple!
In the second scene with the bird, in the video you don't see it, but the movie also shows it with the cabinet in Borgin and Burkes, and the bird chirping (still plainly alive!), and then Draco opens the cabinet to find the bird dead... And again you get that little noise that I think means the spell worked both times, when he's putting the bird in and right before he opens the cabinet.
In my opinion, with the bird still plainly being alive in B&B I always thought that meant what you said above... that he was sorta terrified at the thought that he actually got it to work.
Again, I apologize for my rambly thoughts, but thank you for making me think today!