Anyone else find that clown more scary than the snake? I just watch the dvd (yet again) and it really bothers me how creepy it is. I'm fine with the spider, snake, even the dementor doesn't make me flinch. *shudders* That clown is evil.

Oh on that note, I want it as a background to try and get over my phobia, does anyone have a 1280 x 1024 size version?

yeah, I totally agree with you about the clown. When we saw the movie on IMAX, which is an extra large screen, kids screamed when they saw the clown, or I guess it was a jack in the box styled to look like a clown.

You know, the first time around I watched PoA (and only watched it once before I bought this wonderful, fascinating, hard-to-believe-price DVD!!! ), I didn't really realise that clown. But I know there's a clown somewhere....

And then, later on I saw people creating avatar from the clown and I seriously had thought 'Who's boggart is this?' It didn't occured to me that the snake was the boggart and the clown was supposed to be funny!!

Well dazzo, can't you just right click and select "save as background" or something? Then, in the display properties, you can change it to multiple tiles, a center picture, or a stretched out version of the picture that covers your whole desktop.

It was Parvati Patil's fear (the Arabic one, not exactly ugly ). Really, how is a clown in a jack-in-the-box funny?! Clowns are creepy people. . .

Yes, it was Parvatil's boggart. Only realise it last night, when I was watching the movie!!

Yeah, I know how to change my background. :rolleyes: actually, I was looking for like a full screen (full screen dvd printscreen to be more specific) version of the pic, something with a very high detail level.

But thanks to everyone agreeing with me that clowns are creepy. :-)

Lol, sorry dazzo, I guess I misunderstood. You never know: some people really don't know how to do that. Did you "Google" it?

Oh yeah! That was the clown, Zyra, that everyone was scared of. It was from "It"! But I've never really watched it. . .

I think in an interview on the DVD, they were describing dementors and other scary things, and in the middle, they show a collection of shots from the movies - one being the picture of the clown.

okay, I'll go take another look. cheers

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AH!!! How did they think the clown was less scary than the snake?!?! Honestly! Steven King's "It" is a very scary movie and it has traumatized it seems the entire population. Myself included. I don't mind clowns in person so much as movie clowns b/c they always seem to be bad. (maybe it's the whole "you-have-no-idea-of-my-real-expression-which-is-undoubtedly-
evil-because-my-face-has-a-perma-smile-made-of-greasy-paint" thing) Plus it was huge and LUNGING at the students. Yes. LUNGING. CREEPILY. LUNGING. *shivers* hmm. maybe my phobia was bigger than I thought!

that clown scared the WHOA out of me.
it scared me more than the snake.

Yeah that clown is freaky. It's more scary than the dementors. I think that it was meant to give us a feeling of forboating.

Yes, I really thought it was weird for the clown to seems like lunging at the students... no, actually it didn't really lunging at the students really, more like lunging at us , the audience... didn't it?

Funny eh? Why ever so? Do they mean to show that someone else's laughter can be someone else's fear?? Hmm... weird....

The movie "It" is one of my favorite all time movies! I had to beg my parents to get a bigger tv for I could watch my favorites on a big screen. (I was totally broke back then)

yup!
as i was watching the boggart scene, that was actually my first time seeing a scary clown! ha! ha! ha!
clowns aren't scary right?
to tell you honestly, i can describe that clown weird!

I have been afraid of clowns since I watched It.

So yeah, I *did* find that clown in the Boggart scene a tad creepy...

Oh god, me too!!! I remember the first time I watched that film...totally creeped me out!! I really hate clowns....always have. Anyone remember that film that Brian Dennehey made about that serial killer who used to dress up a clown? John-Wayne Gacy or something, I think....*shivers*

Whoever thinks that clowns are less scary than a cobra...well, sorry...give me the cobra any day..

I liked that avatar that was floating around a while ago....you know the one that had a picture of the clown that said 'Parvati...what were you thinking?!'....that's kind of my thoughts about it too....

I don't usually think clowns are scary, but that one was definetely possessed...and the kids just laughed at it! Crazy wizard children. I think maybe they put that in the movie as a joke

I kinda think they intended it to be creepy... the way it was filmed, sort of 'looming' over the characters, and the scary music... I think it was probably meant to be a sort of reflection of Harry's feelings at the time- because he's next in line, and he knows it's about to become whatever he fears most- so he's already afraid of it.

Wasn't the clown supposed to make you laugh? Well it gave me nightmares! No not really, but it was totally scary! I mean, did you see that things eyes? Not such a pretty sight. A funny thing is, I read an interview with Dan a while ago that said that he's scared of clowns! So I wonder how he reacted to it when he was on set and rehearsing and stuff.

I don't usually think clowns are scary either but that one was just....weird. It was all like.....wOOO! in your face, then it leaned back the it was like WOO! in your face! and the music made it kind of more creepy. Plus jack-in-the-boxes just aren't cool in general. Yeah.

HAHAH! Oh wow, I completely forgot about that scary clown!

Well, I would say that I completely agree with Zyra on page 1....It did not even occur to me that the snake was the boggart and the clown was the "Riddikulus" funny boggart-transferrer-thing .
I do not know how somebody can find a clown like that to be funny....clows are one of those really freaky things that give little kids nightmares .....but whatever floats your boat I suppose!




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Yes, that clown scared the crap out of me. I thought that scene was even more scary than the dementor scene!

This is a funny topic, however...the clown is NOT!

I can't believe that someone would think that clown is funny! It was completely creepy.I agree with Zyra as well that it did not occur to me that it was supposed to be the "funny" "Riddikulus" switcharoo thing.

I've never liked clowns, though I have no idea why, so I thought I was the only one who found that clown scary! So glad its not just me. How could anyone find it funny? It was more likely to be my boggart than any of the other things there! It had such an evil grin on its face, and the way it kinda lurched forward ... shudder

Well friend i agree with you , that clown was really so bad and ugly and whenever i saw the movie it irritating me continously.I never feels bad when i saw snake,Spiders and all,but that clown was really bad.

Me too!, it was horrible especially the way it sort of bent down toward pevarti (sp?) -I can't believe that the clown itself wasn't the boggart.

Clowns are terrifying, I hate the miserable crying clowns AND the menacing smile clowns (so I guess all of them )

I just remembered watching an episode of the simpsoms where homers makes a clown bed for Bart and Bart sits rocking back and forth goig 'can't go to sleep the clown will eat me, can't go to...' - that pretty much sums up how I feel about clowns


so true

When I was little, about 5,the family across the road from me had a ventriloquists(?) dummy that was a clown with ginger hair. One day the daughter who was about 15 at the time , hid around the corner from my house when she knew I was coming home from school. As I approached the house all I could see was this clown with its beady eyes, ginger hair and its mouth opening and closing. I was terrified, I had nowhere to run except into the road and the path of a car. Luckily I only recieved bumps and bruises, but to me, clowns and funny do not go in the same sentence they are menacing and horrible.

Yeah, totally. There's something inherantly sinister about clowns at the best of times and when you know Harry's next in line I think this really helped to set a mood. I think Cuaron did that well throughout the whole film in fact, using the principal that since-everyone's-read-the-book-we-know-what's-coming -but-creating-the-mood-to-give-it-extra-clout. (Also again with the patronus at the end)

The clown still made me soil myself though, obviously.

lol ... i so understand what you mean about the clown being scary!!

i think it was the fact that it was like really close infront of the camera, and that it was in a depressing/dark room!

I really didn't find anything scary. The spider was a bit scary, I guess. The snake wasn't scary. The clown wasn't scary, either. The spider was just a bit too big.

Clowns in general are just plain weird! I was never afraid of them, nor my son. In fact, he practically fell in love with this female circus clown we met when he was little --her name was Shenanigans. lol But I think people have a fear of clowns too! I mean, what was with that clown in Stephen King's It! *shiver*

The clown in PoA was creepy like that...not just because it was a clown, really, but it was a leering, scary clown! Who knows...maybe those wizard kids are just not like us poor, suseptible muggles!

et--Isn't it strange, the things from childhood that remain? My friend is petrified of frogs because older siblings used to chase her around threatening her with them when she was little. I can see where that clown would really freak you out!

clowns don't usually freak me out. but the one in poa was kinda freaky. if i had a thing jump out at me like that. i'd probably scream. i am really not afraid of clowns though! no more clowns like that!

i was freaked out by this clown iv only just watched PoA know and i was thinking the same thing when i watched it the snake wasnt anything compared to that clown

oh my i totally agree. i don't know why but i can't stand clowns and i the one in PoA did make me shudder and well . . . i don't like clowns . . . so that sums it up

Well, yes. I found the clown turned quite nasty.

It's all Stephen King's fault, people. But there's other horror movies with evil clowns. Wasn't there an evil clown in "Poltergeist" as well? . Maybe they are so scary because "a smile is a scream turned upside-down", to paraphrase Stephen King's "IT".

Yeah, I totally agree about the clown. I love snakes, and would love to have one for a pet, except that I wouldn't be able to handle feeding it (I'm a bit of an animal lover, and couldn't handle feeding mice and rabbits to a snake). But clowns are different. I have always had a huge fear of them. When I was little, my parents took my brother to the circus a few times (He loved the circus), but I would stay with my grandma, because I couldn't stand to watch the clowns. I'm almost 30 now, and still terrified of them, and I don't even know where it comes from, as I don't recall any bad situations involving clowns. Anyway, back on topic - I definitely found the clown to be much scarier than the snake.

i was thinking what clown and then the picture like popped into my head.
YESS!! i hate clowns that part freaked me out a little

I was freaked out too about that clown !!! First time when i went to the theatre and saw it, i thought that was a boggart of parvati, but then i realised that she already sayd "ridiculus" and i was just shocked and stunned!


P.S.: I think we are watching way to more thriller movies!

i just dont get how the filmmakers could have stood to put that clown in front of people. Clowns at the circus are one thing, but giant,jack-in -the-box clowns are just plain scary and wrong...

i sleep with 1 eye open now

haha I agree, mann i hate clowns, although I Do Hate Spiders Too, But When Ron Came I Expected It, So I Was Okay, I Think I Remember Having A Nightmare About A Clown Once

im not normally afraid of clowns. but i like snakes so the clown scared me more than the snake. it wasnt even a very funny clown. just scary and weird!

I watched the Prisoner of Azkaban again last night and yeah i agree that clown was pretty freaky. It looked nice at the start but then as it started to go up and down it seemed to get more darker..

I would still prefer that clown to the snake though.

I wasn't sure if they were trying to make it funny or scary... Probably scary because it was Parvati's fear... Well they succeeded in freaking millions of people out! Haha! But yes, that jack-in-the-box clown was just plain weird!

I TOTALLY agree that clown was freaky, I was like "thats some scary boggart" Then i found it was her riddikulus and I was like "Holy Cow!" lol. Anyway you said that it was Parvartis' fear it wasnt, it was what she found funny.......she's wierd.........

I used to be scared of clowns. I was maybe five years old when I watched Stephen King's IT (of course, I wasn't supposed to...I didn't follow rules). I don't remember the movie anymore, but I know there was a clown that scared me mightily. I understand why a perosn could be afraid of a clown.

That clown was pretty disturbing to look at. Just like the clown in IT. But I think that all clowns in general are pretty scary/disturbing to look at in my opinion. I mean its whole face and the eyes portrayed a murderous look to me in some way. Umbelievably though! But I thought that the clown was pretty scary looking.



*Sirius*

Yeah the clown really did creep me out!

Yes that clown freaks me out, but then again I have a fear of clowns:(. But that is one of the scariest clowns I have ever seen, and it is in a box! I also never liked thos things that, when you turn the handle something jumps out at you.

I can see how anyone could get scared by that clown ... that was like, scary creepy. Was that supposed to be the funnier version of the giant snake? Because if it was, it was NOT very funny.

Definitely!!!!!! It was really scary because it looked like it was going to grab Harry
when it was his turn with the Boggart!!!!
And how it just stares at you with those Big, evil eyes!!!
You know, clowns are suppose to be funny but there was nothing
funy about that clown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!