"[As Ethan arrives home, the soundtrack is playingLorena, a favorite song of Civil War soldiers from both the North and South - and a reminder of the lost love they left at home during wartime - its placement at this point in the film (and repeatedly at key points) is doubly symbolic given the context in the film and the unacknowledged, frustrated relationship between Ethan and Aaron""s wife Martha.Hagrid gave Ron his missing rat Scabbers, and then the three surreptitiously watched as Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge, Dumbledore, and an executioner arrived at Hagrid""s for condemned Buckbeak""s killing at sundown, ordered by the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures."The caged, imprisoned ogres were held in Stiltskin""s palace.The "tyrannical dictator" addressed his Far Far Away subjects hrough his Magic Mirror, accusing "rat-munching ogre" Shrek of jeopardizing their lives.The two accept another offer instead - a one-night stand job playing that evening at a St.Valentine""s Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana, 100 miles away in a snowstorm.After Joe hustles and tricks Nellie into lending them her car, they pick up the borrowed vehicle ("a 25 hump-mobile green coupe") from Charlie""s Garage in Chicago.