What to omit- PoA

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:
> 
> Hard to say what will be cut in PoA.  They've got to have a minimum 
of 3
> Quidditch games.  

I don't know--I think they might get by with compressing the 
Quidditch games into two.  The first would be with Hufflepuff where 
the Dementors and Grim!Sirius show up.  The second would be the 
championship against Slytherin, with the "fake dementor" bit from the 
middle game transposed--sans Malfoy (and Flint?) of course, as he'd 
be playing in the game, but otherwise as is (imagine the rage 
McGonagal would get herself into if the Slytherins were not only 
trying to sabotage the Gryffindor seeker, they were doing it to 
benifit their own team!).  Cho could be introduced elsewhere, or if 
worse comes to worse, have her debut delayed until GoF.

> So, what can be left out?  Maybe some of the pre-Hogwarts stuff, at 
the
> Leaky Cauldron.  Of course, you've got to have him blowing up Aunt 
Marge.
> And seeing the grim (that's really Sirius Black) unless of course 
they leave
> out the whole Grim thing, which would be a mistake, I think.  
You've also
> GOT to have the train ride because they first encounter Lupin and 
the
> Patronus there.  I suppose you can leave some of the classes out.  
Limit
> Divination to one class session.  Maybe.

Some of the LC scenes could be trimmed, but there's some set-up that 
probably should be there.  Most of the class scenes might be cut or 
trimmed, but there's some things that have to be there--especially 
where the Snape/Lupin enmity manifests.  Getting the Shrieking Shack 
into a reasonable running time is a task I don't envy--there are some 
things which might be omitted, but not much.
 
> All right, this is why I'm not a screenwriter.  I say keep it all 
and have a
> five hour movie.  I'll watch it! :)

Amen to that! :-)  The problem (if it can be called that) is that 
these books are so intricate on the story level that there is very 
little which does not end up effecting the plot on some level or 
another.

~Christi