My second viewing and some things I realized

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Theresa wrote:

>>Yes, I am still bothered by no background story on MWPP but maybe 
they will have some little blurb in #4 to say who they were. One can 
only hope.<<

Here's a question I have about that (for all of you who were very 
annoyed by that being left out), is it just that they wrote the map 
that you're upset about, or the whole backstory (with the animagus 
transformations and all)? Personally, of the things that bugged me 
about the film, that was one of the smallest. I know they wrote the 
map and the movie hints at it (they didn't change it completely - 
Sirius and Lupin clearly know all about it), and in the book the fact 
that they wrote the map is slipped into the middle of the Shrieking 
Shack scene with very little emphasis (Lupin says something to the 
effect of "Of course I know how to work it, I helped write it."). Now 
if you're talking about the animagus stuff, then that I understand, 
because that's a whole chapter. Personally, I think it would have 
been awkward in the movie, and on multiple readings it felt sort of 
awkward in the book (it was just too much of a digression, in the 
middle of the heavy situation). I think part of the reason for that 
large bit of exposition (which doesn't *quite* fit into the subject 
at hand), was to have something for Snape to overhear without him 
hearing anything important.


>> I know it always bothered me in PS/SS that Neville was not on 
detention - it was Ron and that Seamus had such a clumsy person role. 
He only messed up the feather in the book - the water to rum scene 
was not in my version of the book nor was the eyebrows line. <<

To be fair, the eyebrows scene was cut out of the movie (and only 
included in the deleted scenes). Yes, it was probably for time, but 
there's a small chance the editor/directer decided it wasn't working. 
Its things like Seamus being changed so much (at least it was only 
one movie) that bother me the most. In PoA I was more bothered by the 
changes they made to Ron, like switching his 'if you want to kill 
Harry, you'll have to kill us too.', although it worked just fine, 
its one of Ron's big moments in the books; more particularily 
the 'he's got a point, you know.' line to Snape, because it was the 
OPPOSITE of his reaction in the book, and I think that reaction would 
have worked better (him speaking out of turn to Snape would have led 
into the 'ten points from Gryffindor' better). The other thing that 
bothered me was the removal of Snape's freak-out in the hospital 
wing. It made alright sense without it, but considering they have 
Alan Rickman playing Snape (and typically all Snape does is sneer, 
which is fine, but it doesn't give him much to do). It would have 
been wonderful to see Snape whipped into a frenzy like that. (that 
was one of the things I was looking forward to the most about the 
movie). 


>>Granted Devon is a neat kid but I wanted more Neville. Especially 
now what we know from OotP. I really felt sorry for him reading the 
first book (and yes I read the books and was a fan before the 
films).<<

They haven't really given him much to do, have they? One of the best 
Neville moments is in the first book (when he stands up the Malfoy 
during the quidditch match).  
On the other hand, he did get the boggart scene in PoA (even if 
losing the passwords--or rather having the passwords stolen--was cut 
out).


-Rebecca