Mark on birthday cake in 1st movie

[Tim Bruening]

This is my first post to this newsgroup. I can't find the answer in the
FAQ or in past postings.
In the lighthouse at the beginning of _Sorcerer's Stone_ Hagrid gives
Harry a birthday cake that he might have sat on.
The writing on the cake is
HAPP/EE
BIRTH/DAE
H/ARRy
There is a continuous line that goes through the frosting across the
entire top of the cake. It goes through the writing in the same place
where I've put the /'s.
Does anyone think this means anything? I suppose that it is just how
the movie makers choose to represent a poorly made cake, but I wonder
about it every time I see that scene. The line in the frosting or the
misspellings aren't in the book.

Poetic licence on the prat of the film-makers, if it isn't in the book,
which it isn't then it doesn't mean anything :-)

And "prat" is a delightful Freudian typo. :)

Where is the word "prat" in the post Tennant responded to?

[Mclan99]

Post by Tim Bruening

There is a continuous line that goes through the frosting across the
entire top of the cake. It goes through the writing in the same place
where I've put the /'s.
Does anyone think this means anything? I suppose that it is just how
the movie makers choose to represent a poorly made cake, but I wonder
about it every time I see that scene. The line in the frosting or the
misspellings aren't in the book.

Poetic licence on the prat of the film-makers, if it isn't in the book,
which it isn't then it doesn't mean anything :-)

And "prat" is a delightful Freudian typo. :)

Where is the word "prat" in the post Tennant responded to?

Just caught this thread... Missed the Original post, so please forgive my
piggyback here...

I just rewatched the first movie this evening in fact and for the first time
noticed that crack. I chalked it up to Hagrid telling Harry that he may have
sat on it at some point but it would still taste fine...

I just figured big ol' Hagrid squished it a bit and the crack was from that.

Joolz

[Jen in Austin]

In alt.fan.harry-potter before someone took away their crayons, Tim

Post by Tim Bruening

Poetic licence on the ***prat*** of the film-makers, if it isn't in the book,
which it isn't then it doesn't mean anything :-)

And "prat" is a delightful Freudian typo. :)

Where is the word "prat" in the post Tennant responded to?

HTH

Jen