[HPFGU-Movie] 2 probs.

[Amanda Lewanski]

mellienel2 at yahoo.com wrote:

> 2. We never see Harry get that Snape hates HIM, not just that he's
> particularly unpleasant. We know he's more unpleasant toward Harry,
> but H. never even wonders about it, and Dumbledore never told him that
> James saved Snape's life...I agree with most cuts from the book, but
> this one I think was important, very important, for setting up
> future emotion.

I've wondered if the life-debt to James was deleted because it was a red
herring for motivation in book 1, or because they can put it in later,
like Peeves.

I suspect a lot of Snape/Harry interaction got left on the cutting room
floor--my second time, I noticed that when Harry, Ron, and Hermione come
out of the room after talking to McGonagall about the Stone and finding
out Dumbledore's gone, Snape doesn't just come walking up from behind.
He's passed them, stops suddenly, looks over his shoulder, turns around
and comes back to them. You can see him look around, in the background,
over the heads of the kids. This is such a pointed thing, him stopping
where he was going to come back and harass them, that I suspect there
was more of this before editing.

--Amanda


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