I don’t hate all of the changes that the movies made, but one that always makes me cringe is when Professor McGonagall says “I’ve always wanted to use that spell.” People around are dying and literally an army of Death Eaters are at the door… I don’t think she’s in the mood for joking and I don’t think she’s trying to be “cute”
(tech’s note: ugh so much agree, it made me so mad. Especially because she’s using it to defend hogwarts. HAHAHA LOL IVE ALWAYS WANTED HOGWARTS TO GET ATTACKED SO I COULD USE THIS SPELL?? No. Also pretty sure it’s the same spell used to animate the chess pieces from the first book.)
This is so weird to me, because like…. it’s the middle of a war? Things are dark as fuck already? George Weasley was lying on the ground with a hole in his head and he was still able to crack ‘holy’ jokes. It’s a legit thing that happens–called, I think, morbid humor: things are fucking awful all around and for some people the only way to deal with it is to make jokes, find something to laugh about. Think about boggarts! They manifest as your biggest fear, and the only real way to beat them is to laugh. It’s a coping mechanism, and it’s a goddamn skill tbh. If you think Minerva’s thought process right then was ‘oh yay, hogwarts is being attacked so I can activate this ancient defense, let’s laugh about it!’ then… well, I’ll question your viewing comprehension at the very least.
I mean there are lots of things in the movies I’ll poke at and nitpick till the end of time. But I could understand where Minerva was coming from. Hope can be found in the darkest of places if one only remembers to turn on the light. Well, sometimes we have to make our own light even if the world feels like it’s about to end.