POA script-writing

[Megan]

I know we're still reeling from COS still, but I was re-reading POA
and got to wondering just HOW Kloves would cut it.  Here's what my
version would be...granted, this is was HARD because I had to cut out
some of my favorite stuff for sake of plot and proper development. 
It's still probably too long of a script, but I did the best I could
given the length and extreme complexity of POA.  Feel free to add your
own lists of cuts!

Out:
- Knight Bus (Harry just shows up at TLC)
- Fudge (have Arthur say the important stuff)
- most of TLC chapter
- Magical Menagerie (Hermione can just have gotten Crookshanks over
the summer)
- train sequence (Harry faints in carriage instead OR doesn't faint
until Quidditch match, just not as much foreshadowing)
Potions lesson (dialogue with Malfoy somewhere else, Great Hall probably)
- Halloween feast (Flight of the Fat Lady still there, but it can just
be on a normal day)
- Great Hall sleeping
- pre-Quidditch talks (training sessions, that is)
- Professor Lupin returns to class (they can just see him in the Great
Hall or something--or Harry can speak to him in the hall)
- shorten Marauder's Map and Hogsmeade sequence/dialogue
- Harry angry at Hagrid
- Christmas feast
- shorten Patronus scene
- cut straight to Scabber's fake death
- (this really pains me, but) Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw
- Hagrid confronts Harry & Ron
- Hermione's threat to Harry going to Hogsmeade (Ron can just make mad
remarks about her beforehand and she isn't with them next time Harry
is there)
- Harry runs back to Hogwarts after splattering Malfoy
- shorten Snape's confrontation
- cut out stuff about Buckbeak's appeal (first decision can be final)
& them researching it
- Hermione slaps Malfoy, quits Divination, and misses Cheering Charms
- other exams (just show Divination)
- shorten dialogue in Hagrid's Hut before the Shrieking Shack scene
- cut out some of the extra Black-rage
- Snape & Fudge's dialogue (Harry wakes up to urgent Dumbledore)
- some of the future-self scene dialogue (speed it up)
- anything inbetween Snape's charging Harry after Black is saved &
Lupin leaving
- then cut straight to Ron gets Pig

Namely, those are whole scenes I would cut, but there's lots of little
stuff along the way.  I know some of this stuff is slightly important
to the storyline, but we've got to sacrifice if we want to see POA
done right, correct?

Comments?

-Megan