Clues to POA deleted or extended scenes

Eustace_Scrubb dk59us at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 25 16:02:29 UTC 2004


I had the chance to see POA in an IMAX this past week and noticed
something odd about the scene in which the class takes on the boggart
in the wardrobe.

Of course, Neville goes first.  Then Lupin has them line up, with Ron,
Seamus and Parvati the first three.  As Ron deals with the spider,
Seamus is visible next in line.  But then, once the spider's in roller
skates, Lupin calls Parvati up.  Seamus is no longer visible anywhere
in the later shots of the line of students.

Seems from this that they probably filmed the Seamus/banshee scene but
cut it from the theatrical version.  (Of course they also could have
changed what the boggart becomes for Seamus as they did for Parvati).

If the DVD follows the past format, we'll probably see Seamus take on
the boggart in the deleted scenes.  If instead they go the LOTR route
and put out an extended DVD, maybe we'll get an extended scene of this
class.  Since they integrated the SS deleted scenes into the ABC TV
presentation,  maybe they're thinking along those lines for the
future, instead of having a separate deleted scenes section.

Also, my son just got some POA trading cards, showing scenes from the
movie--except some show scenes that _aren't_ in the movie.  For
example, there's one with a bedraggled Maggie Smith in her nightgown
looking up at a painting.  The description on the back says that this
is the scene in which Sir Cadogan confirms that Sirius Black had the
passwords when he came in to "attack" Ron.  None of that made it into
the theatrical release, but they obviously filmed it...so again, look
for it somewhere on the DVD.

Now, if only I could find some evidence that an explanation was filmed
of who Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs are...

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb






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