What one piece of information...

[Heather Moore]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Alexander W. Hertzog <newton_nicodemus at y...> 
wrote:
> What I miss most is Snape's potion/logic puzzle at the end. I 
rememeber 
> reading the book for the first time and being pleasantly surprised 
to 
> see not one, but two challenges that had nothing to do with the 
magical 
> world, but just brain power (the other being the chess game). I 
know 
> it's a longshot, but knowing how popular the books are, I hope that 
> perhaps an interest in mind games is sparked among the throngs of 
> children reading these books.
> Also, without that logic puzzle, Hermione's bonus points at the 
very end 
> seem much less justified. OK, so they rewrote the devil's snare 
scene to 
> make her keep her cool and remember her herbology lessons, but why 
not 
> keep the movie accurate to the book, especially when the book's 
version 
> was better?
> 
> Alex
> 



 Well... logic puzzles just aren't all that visually exciting to 
watch. (Again I'll mention the MAD magazine movie satire, in which 
they restored the potions puzzle and turned it into a hysterical 
piece of product placement schtick involving Diet Coke. It really 
clued the reader in that whoever wrote that satire for MAD is a sick 
puppy who loves the books to distraction. A very affectionate sendup.)