A brief note regarding "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Harry Potter movies generally make inside-references regarding me/my material, like so many other movies, TV shows, etc., and so, when I am watching a Harry Potter movie and it triggers an association, I know to see it in terms of that context. In this 2009 movie, which just had its HBO premier, I found something connected to my 1978 video, "How Did The Future Learn To Play Monopoly."
To identify this inside-reference, one need never have acquired the education provided by English boarding schools (though I imagine an English boarding school experience would provide the knowledge needed to know one's place with regard to upperclassmen, or perhaps if one were to have been a less-important member of The Beatles). All you need is experience with the secret shorthand Hollywood has specially reserved for me.
In my May 24th blog ("The Secret Is Out There"), I observed that the final episode of "24" included this same inside-reference to my "How Did The Future Learn To Play Monopoly":
It was very close to the way the star of my video, Henry Golas (who was once Groucho Marx' right hand), intoned the words, "Take your grubby hands off of me," as they were leading him away to be tortured.
In the Harry Potter movie, a character is similarly captured and taken away, causing him to say, "Take your hands off of me, you filthy Squibb." Again intoning his words in a manner identical to what one finds in the referenced "24" episode and "Monopoly". And again, the question of finding some way to get someone to divulge a most-important secret is a key issue regarding the larger story.
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