Somethings going to be cut from PoA

[saintbacchus]

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I'm gonna be a kill-joy and agree with Joann. It is a very funny 
scene to read, but what makes it so funny to me is the sneering tone 
of the insults which  one can't help but hear in one's head, even if 
they are just appearing on a piece of paper. (I just loved the 
voices Stephen Fry made to go with the map at this point in his 
reading of PoA, I had to rewind the tape and listen to it several 
times, I thought he did it so well. Especially the way the tone of 
each successive insult becomes increasingly affected.) However, as 
Joann points out, this would be difficult to translate to the screen.
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This is exactly why movies should be adaptations of books, not 
direct copies. That scene, as written in the book, does not work on 
screen. But, lo! What if the map *read itself* to Snape? Thus, the 
different voices alluded to by the different fonts in the book would 
become actual different voices in the movie.

I just saw Cuaron's adaptation of "A Little Princess," and his 
creativity impressed me. In particular, I liked the stylish dissolve 
where Sarah's tears on the letter to her father turn into raindrops 
as he reads it. I doubt such a simple idea as the one I outlined 
above - or another, better one - would elude him.