The Marauders' Map, was Harry and Sirius

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, nicholas dean <nicholas at a...> wrote:
>Major snipping here:
Nicholas writes:> 
> On which subject; did anyone else see the article in the January 
> issue of 'Empire'; 'Harry Potter and the what of huh'? where they run 
> through some of the less-clear plot points of GoF for the benefit of 
> those seeing the film without having read the book. Rather 
> embarrasssing for the director, scriptwriter and story editor....
> 
> Glad to know that I was not the only one who thought the storytelling 
> somewhat lacking...
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
>
JenD interjects:
I have to say that I felt the "Shrieking Shack" scene was the all-time 
biggest piece of Swiss cheese (aka plotholes) that I've seen so far. I 
realize there has to be some tacit agreement between rabid fans and the 
makers given that no one has said "no" to a single word (or many many 
thousands) Jo has written in ages. She writes extremely complicated and 
many-threaded plots. The best thing I have heard was a suggestion from 
Richard that the each of books would have made much better year long 
series. Then the intricacies of plot which are abundant, would have 
gotten some screen time. These books really can't be done any sort of 
justice in 2 and half hours. Given that, we have the tacit agreement 
that not everything will be on-screen, not every bit of plot displayed 
and we'll all try to play nicely with what we get. 
JenD
Who is ever so happy to see Nicholas back and still waiting for Richard 
to pop his head above ground again....