Clues to POA deleted or extended scenes

[huntergreen_3]

Eustace_Scrubb wrote:
>> 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). <<

I checked through my trading cards and on this scene, *Dean Thomas* 
is listed as being the one who turns the snake into the creepy jack-
in-the-box. That does make me wonder though, if they filmed more 
boggart encounters, but cut them out for time.


>>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. <<

Not only is that in the trading cards, but in at least one of the 
many behind-the-scenes specials I watched, there's actually a *clip* 
from this scene (its just Ron and Hermione arguing, but they're in 
their pajamas, and the scene is definitely *not* in the movie). Also, 
there's the fact that the IMDB lists an actor for Sir Cadogan, even 
though he was *barely* in the movie. It makes me wonder how much of 
that scene they filmed (if there's actually a shot of Sirius standing 
over Ron's bed or not). I'll bet the reason this scene was left out 
is less for time, and more sylistic: Cuaron wanting the first glimpse 
of the (not in pictures) Sirius Black to be in the shrieking shack. 
So that the rest of the movie is lead-up to that moment.

I kind of wonder exactly how the trading card captions were written. 
Obviously the writer had some inside info, because many of the other 
card are correct, but there's some that go against what was in the 
movie. There's another one, about Ron & Hermione fighting, which 
says "Ron retorts that a person could die being Harry's friend.", 
which I thought was very odd and was wondering how that would play in 
the movie, but of course it wasn't in the movie. And in the Sirius 
escaping card, Sirius says "You truly are your father's son Harry." 
as opposed to the awful complimenting Hermione line. IMO, it seems 
like it was originally that line (as a continuation of the 
conversation he was having with Harry), but that it was changed for 
some reason. You can't even tell who he's looking at until *after* 
the line when you see Hermione's reaction. Clearly, both Cuaron and 
Steve Kloves like Hermione/Emma Watson a little *too* much.

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

You won't. According to the Entertainment Weekly article that came 
out a few weeks ago, Cuaron *purposely* left that out, thinking it 
fit better in a later movie.(personally, it doesn't bother me that 
much, but since I've heard from so many people who were upset about 
it, I wish they would have had just ONE line about it *somewhere*).


-Rebecca