Why books should not be movies

[huntergreen_3]

>>I don't think it is unreasonable to want the movie to be more 
faithful to the book. I think the first two movies were much closer 
to the material than this one. At least they didn't have shrunken 
heads and flying dementors.<<

Just curious, why are the first two perceived as being *so much* more 
faithful to the books that PoA? I noticed not just you, but a lot of 
people voicing that,  I haven't read the first two as many times as 
I've read PoA, but I recall a lot of things being left out. Off the 
top of my head:
PS/SS:
-No mention of Harry's previous accidental magic before the 
disappearing glass incident
-No Draco in Diagon Alley
-Harry's birthday (appears at least) seems to have jumped to August 
31st as opposed to July 31st
-The sorting hat doesn't go in alphabetical order, but instead in 
some random order (I know this has to bother someone else), and its 
delibertations on Harry are said aloud to the whole room
-Like in the other two, there's only one quidditch scene, and thus we 
lose Referee!Snape
-No peeves, or history of magic
-Ron has detention with them instead of Neville
-No midnight duel with Draco
-No potions to get to the stone
-No explanation of why Snape hates Harry / Why he saved his life (in 
fact, no discussion of that at all)
CoS:
-Harry's birthday moves a few days from what it was in the book (it 
was always so sad to me that none of the Dursley's mentioned his 
birthday and he spent it doing chores and then being told to hide in 
his room and pretend not to exist)
-Ron's room is never shown
-No Malfoys in Knockturn Alley (having it as a deleted scene doesn't 
count)
-Hermione says DUMBLEDORE'S line
-Snape isn't the one that catches Ron/Harry after the flying car 
incident
-No mention of Filch as a squib (thus making the attack on Mrs. 
Norris rather random)
-No foreshadowing of Ginny being the one opening the chamber
-No valentine's day (my favorite line in the whole book was in that 
scene...Hermione giving Lockhard a valentine was priceless)
-Penelope is never attacked
-(i might be mistaken here) No mention of Ron burping up slugs all 
over Tom Riddle's trophy for services to the school.
-And of course the horrible 'There's no Hogwarts without you Hagrid' 
end (honestly, did they just not have any test screenings?)

And those are just off the top of my head. The previous movies DID 
change quite a bit, was it just that they didn't add very much 
either? I know that PoA changed more than the other two did, I just 
didn't notice *that* much more being gone, some things were moved 
around and others only vaguely hinted at, but they were still there. 
Just curious, maybe I'm missing something.

>>And why can't anyone who is pro-POA address their comments in 
regards to liking the movie instead of why I AM WRONG to not like it? 
So far today I've been told by various list members than I am mean-
spirited towards the movie because I didn't like it, I don't "get 
subtlety," and now I'm unreasonable.
I've also been told I don't make a "rational argument" for not liking 
the movie, as if I have to back of my FEELINGS and PREFERENCES with 
factual information. And I'm taking these points of view personally?<<

But not everyone is doing that. Maybe you should address those people 
specifically instead of saying that all people who liked PoA are 
against those that didn't like it, because that's not fair at all. 


-Rebecca