After Freddy was "killed off" in the last film (Freddy""s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)), his spirit was released into the ""real-world"" to haunt the life of actress Heather Langenkamp and her family.While keeping watch that night, Harry spotted a Patronus (a silver doe) and followed it to a small ice-covered pond, where he saw the Gryffindor Sword submerged in the water.The black centaurette was first abruptly cut from the film and as echnology improved, the scene was edited or ""resized"" by zooming in on the frames with the character in them so that she was not seen in the shot.Sparrow""s "beloved Pearl" had been lost in battle ("I lost the Pearl as I lost my leg"), and Barbossa had been commissioned to sail in theHMS Providence.