Still bugging me about CoS...

[Diana]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, poohnpotterfan at a... wrote:
> Most of that didn't bother me too much, but I have to agree with 
you on the 
> ending. It just didn't make sense. The way they handled it was as 
if Hagrid 
> saved everyone, instead of Harry. 

My reply:  I think you expressed exactly of what bugs the snot out 
of me about that scene - Hagrid steals Harry's thunder!  All Hagrid 
did was get released from Azkaban!  Sure, he told Harry and Ron to 
follow the spiders, which helped them come to the realization later 
that Moaning Myrtle was the last victim of the basilisk, but he also 
nearly got them killed, a rather horribe and painful way to die 
too.  
 

I was kind of bugged that they didn't show Ron 
> the least bit concerned about his sister after she was rescued. 
That would 
> have been nice to see the Weasley's all gathered around Ginny, 
before Dumbledore 
> had his talk with Harry about Riddle. When I first saw the ending, 
I was like 
> "What the...?????" My sister, who hasn't read the books, was 
all "Isn't that 
> so sweet?" & I'm all "NOOO!! That's not the way it ends in the 
book!!!" That 
> was the first time I compared the books and the movies really 
closely, the rest 
> of the time it didn't bother me much.
> Jenn :)


My reply:  Like you, I really wished that scene with the Weasleys 
greeting and hugging Ginny, Ron and Harry after they returned from 
the Chamber of Secrets was in the movie.  That was a great and 
touching scene.  
I do feel that the movies can stand apart from the books in their 
own right, but the movies are only truly cohesive and make sense if 
the viewer has actually read the books.  Try watching "Sorcer's 
Stone" and "Chamber of Secrets" without filling in the gaps with 
your knowledge from the books.  It's interesting how different the 
movies seem to me when I don't apply foreknowledge from the books to 
the movies.  
I do like both movies and enjoy watching them, but because of the 
two-and-a-half-hour limitation, many (to me) important scenes and 
much vital expository information were left out when they shouldn't 
have been.

Diana