I tend to notice werewolf night. I was in Dublin with my sister once on a night of the full moon, and we talked a lot about Remus Lupin that night (she likes him just as much as I do), and the next morning, when we went to Glasnevin Cemetery, there were huge canine-like pawprints in the thawing hoarforst on some of the slablike gravestones, and we found that very fitting...

Buckbeak was very superior for a CGI. Still, the CGIs in the HP movies were, as a rule, alsways inferior to those WETA did for the LOTR movies. Especially apparent in the first two years when they were running sorta against each other, troll for troll and Dobby to be compared with Gollum.