[HPFGU-Movie] Re: A challenge for people who really liked the movie

[patientx3 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/5/2004 4:50:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
alina at distantplace.net writes:

>>but knowing that Peter somehow betrayed the Potters doesn't 
explain what exactly he did that constitutes a betrayal. Personally 
I find it important that he divulged their location to Voldemort, 
because if you think about it, simply being Voldemort's servant can 
constitute as a betrayal in and of itself. Telling Voldemort, "My ex-
best friends whom you want to kill live there," is a quite a bit 
more grievous an offense.<<

But it *was* in there. In the Three Broomsticks, McGonagall explains that 
Sirius was one of the few people who knew where the Potter's were, and he told 
Voldemort that. When the betrayal is switched from Sirius to Peter, the basis of 
it remains the same. Is it necessary to explain it a second time? (its what 
people have been saying in some of the other posts about Cuaron being able to 
trust the audience more than Columbus, everything doesn't need to be beaten 
into the viewers).

>>It was also not mentioned that Pettigrew murdered 13 muggles to 
escape Sirius, which I think portrays him in an entirely different 
light than that in which he appears in the movie.<<
I don't think it throws him in a "completely different light" at all. The 
main idea is still there: fear of Sirius Black. Instead of the focus being on him 
"killing 13 people with one curse", it was on the fact that he somehow 
managed to escape from Azkaban and that all was left of Peter was a finger. The fear 
was still there, that's what's important about it (I assume they cut the 
muggle-deaths from it to make the scene less confusing for non-book fans).

>>I've seen people argue that even if it wasn't explained in POA, 
they'll just put it into GOF, but if they have to fill up GOF with 
POA explanations, how are they going to find space to explain GOF 
events?<<
Personally, I don't think all of this *needs* to be explained. Yes, it would 
be nice to see on screen the story behind the map, and the story of all of 
them becoming Animagi, but its not necessary to the story. Audiences accepted 
McGonagall as an animagi without explaining her personal reasons why she became 
one, so why is it *necessary* for the movie to explain why Sirius would become 
one? As for Lupin and Sirius knowing how to use the map, if we accept that 
Fred and George figured it out, why can't we accept that other "troublemakers" 
figured it out? Again, its an interesting bit of backstory, but its not 
essential to understanding the plot, nor is it a plot hole, its just something that's 
hinted at, but not said. 



-Rebecca


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