Distortions in Borgin & Burkes (was Re: DVD: deletedscenes)

[chthonia9 <chthonicdancer@hotmail.com>]

A couple of further thoughts on this...

Fyre Wood wrote:
Mr. Borgin's line is so cool--why did they cut that entire scene?

GulPlum replied:
<snip>
> I can think of lots of 
> very good reasons to have done so, and no honestly good reasons to 
> have kept the B&B scene in. 

and I chipped in:
> > 1) It is the only time we witness the interaction between Lucius 
> > and Draco when (as far as they know) they are unobserved.  This 
> > is crucial because [...] Draco says nothing in the presence of
> > his father in the bookshop, 

which Heidi confirmed.(thanks)


It seems to me that, having cut the Draco/Lucius/Borgin interaction, 
they might as well have cut the whole scene.  What have we learnt 
from what they showed us?  That you have to be careful using floo 
powder, and that Knockturn Alley exists. Pretty minor background 
detail (unless the film people know something everyone else doesn't 
about the last 3 books), compared to the plot-related information 
that was cut.  Plus we get Harry nosing around the shop and touching 
things which look rather dubious, to say the least.  That isn't 
implausible, but it does seem to be a distortion of his character 
compared to the book, where (if I paraphrase correctly) his reaction 
seemed to be 'pretty dodgy place this, better not be found here, time 
to get the hell out...'

Ah well, I'm planning to go see the film again tonight, so perhaps 
when I've had the leisure to spot all the stuff I missed first time 
round I'll remember it as something more than a frenzied gallop...

Chthonia