[HPFGU-Movie] Re: the greatest difference

[Valerie Flowe]

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> From: "snosageau" <snosageau at hotmail.com>

I felt that the writers missed something crucial in 
leaving out the background of the maurauders - i saw the movie with 
friends who haven't read the book and they didn't really get the 
stuff with Lupin and the map / Prongs at the lake / animagi stuff. I 
know that the book has to be trimmed to make a movie that doesn't go 
on for forever, but surely in the Shrieking Shack scene they 
(lupin/sirius) could have explained all the stuff to Harry? I felt 
that that scene was just too rushed. Why did Harry believe so 
suddenly that they should trust L&S about Scabbers?

[from bewitchedbyHP]

I read in one of the mags that Dan's favorite POA scene is the Shrieking Shack. 
Eek! Well, he is only 14; not quite as critical in his analysis as us adults!
I keep replaying that scene in my head, to determine what and where they 
could've inserted more of the storyline. How hard would it have been to have 
Lupin looking at the map in his office; startled to see Sirius, Peter and the 
kids in the Shack, he runs off; soon thereafter Snape arrives with the 
forgotten potion, sees the map; realizes what's going down and runs off after 
Lupin. Cheap to film; only 5 minutes added to the length of the film. Instead 
they just threw in Sirius yelling "Remus, did you forget to take your potion?!" 
"Huh?! What potion?" I can hear the non-HP readers in the audience saying. 
Granted probably 75% of the audience are book fans, but still...
And I still would've liked the Harry/Dumbledore "denouement" at the end. It's 
tradition, after all. They had it at the end of SS (the "alas, earwax" scene), 
and in COS (the Gryffindor sword scene, prior to Dobby and Lucius walking in). 
That would've been an opportunity to have the new Dumbledore show a little 
grandfatherly compassion to Harry, that I feel was lacking. 





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