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Eunice St. Clair

posted 15 years ago by elvisflushley
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I feel it necessary to discuss the weird relationship between Harry Potter and Eunice. When I first saw the movie back in the 80's, it made sense that a spinster witch would talk to Harry because there was a troll running around and it had to be stopped. In retrospect, Eunice acts like a sex-starved old biddy. it makes me uncomfortable, but also sorta horny. The way she acts (and maybe its just the way June Lockhart is) she seems hot to trot when she's talking with Harry. Which is messed up. Because without this central relationship, the troll would have succeeded in creating another troll kingdom.

Now it's possible she's just high on life, and I'm just high. Does anyone else get a weird vibe from the Harry/Eunice scenes?

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[–] duked 15 years ago

LOL...Makes you horny. I definitely have to rewatch this one!!!!!!

[–] gax001 15 years ago

you have some *beep* up ideas my freind
nice 1

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[–] elvisflushley 15 years ago

I didn't make the movie, and sure as hell didn't include a quasi-pedophiliac relationship in my expectations from it. Hell, I just wanted to see some cool monsters. Sonny Bono getting turned into a plant and Julia Louise Dreyfus turning into a wood nymph were bonuses.

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[–] image-2 15 years ago

Perhaps you are just reading too much into it.

Do you really believe that Eunice actually has the "hots" for Harry Potter?

Or maybe she's in fact a witch, and she sees the value in instructing him in the ways of her magical world so he can assist her in the upcoming war against the troll wizard Turok, and in the process maybe even save his sister?

Just a thought...

[–] elvisflushley 15 years ago

Naw, I just like to conjure up the most off-kilter of subtexts and apply it to anything I watch.

Like I said, when I watched it as an 8 yr old, Eunice was a teacher, a guide, and most importantly, a way to beat the trolls.

But now, after a recent revival of this movie on the Encore and This networks, the context of Housewives of..., Bad Girls Club, Desperate Housewives, Cougartown, Got Milf? bumper stickers, and other such paraphernalia calls for a post-modernist re-reading of Troll.

Which includes such uncomfortable topics as the Eunice/Harry Jr. dialogues. Or the weird crap about the midget and the possessed 8-yr old. I mean, who was the victim in that one? Remember how the parents assumed she was bringing over a friend of her own age, and then discovered her "friend" was an adult male midget who had problems fitting in who read some creepy pastoral romantic poem? And during the reading of this poem, the possessed girl went into convulsive fits while the other trolls sang "Cantos Profanae?"

I am reading into this scene way too much, yeah.

At any rate, Excelsior!

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[–] Tanaro_Fubine 14 years ago

It all started with her exposure to that old lech Dr. Smith who was constantly manhandling young Will Robinson (her son) on Lost In Space.

[–] killersim187 14 years ago

I thought she was flirting with him also. When she let down her hair she was looking sexy also.

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[–] LightningLad 14 years ago

I thought the Lockharts were a pretty hot mother/daughter combo in this.

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[–] OKLacoste 13 years ago

Sexual undertones between Eunice and Harry are obvious

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[–] jengreens 13 years ago

I don't think the sexual overtones are that obvious between Harry and Eunice. Except maybe at the end when she lets her hair down and becomes her younger self and they exchange smiles when the family are leaving the apartment.

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 13 years ago

Whole dumb flick is a metaphore for peeing on the floor of heaven. Not trashy enuff to be Art.

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[–] jengreens 13 years ago

I just think that there's some harmless flirtation going on between Harry and Eunice.

[–] Duragizer 12 years ago

Yeah, I could sense the sexual tension between the Eunice and Harry. Seeing as I'm an admitted pervert, however, I'm bound to see sex where sex was never intended to exist.

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