Films filter out less important scenes

[Steve Binch]

We all know that there are scenes in every book that seem irrelevant at
first, but then becomes important in another book. When the screenplay is
written, they have to eliminate many of the scenes in order to get the film
with 2-3 hours. But they must be careful not to eliminate scenes that will
play a greater importance later on.

A couple examples of this are:

1. When Harry goes to the zoo and speaks to the snake (we learn Harry is a
Parselmouth).
2. When Ron tries to turn Scabbers yellow (we at least need to become
familiar with scabbers).

Can you think of any more? And who wants to speculate on scenes that are
setting up for books 5-7?

-Steve