The Marauders' Map, was Harry and Sirius

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, nicholas dean <nicholas at a...> 
wrote:
>
> >
> >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.
> 
> 
> Well, yes and no. Have you reread that scene recently? A lot of 
> explanation was necessary at that point, but I think JKR dragged 
it 
> out a bit too much.

JenD here,
That scene was very complex and timing was everything! What Snape 
heard and when he heard it was critical (to things in GOF, he can't 
know that Sirius'animagus is a dog until later) and as far as I 
could discern, the timeline of revelations was not very important to 
Cuaron. They took a scene that transpired over an hour or so in the 
book and compressed it to maybe 10 minutes. The timing of who heard 
what when could not have been respected in such an abbreviated 
scene. JKR uses long scenes with lots of dialogue and "looks" to 
convey meaning and establish relationship. Richard devalues the 
brevity of Sirius and Harry's relationship but it was established in 
the Shack and over a long conversation with plenty of opportunity 
for Harry to observe Sirius, to take in his manner and his story. It 
was such a long scene just to do the work that would normally take 
months if not years. It's to JKR's credit that we accept such an 
abbreviated demonstration in order to establish a bond necessary for 
the next book. Notice I said "book." At any rate, the abbreviated 
nature of the Shrieking Shack scene did make any bond between Harry 
and Sirius look pretty thin on the ground. Thus Richard can make his 
assertion that the relationship is not important to the narrative of 
GOF. I was bemoaning the lack of expostition in POA that made Sirius 
negligible in GOF. Hope that gives you a little something to chew on!
JenD
>  Snipped a bit here and there...
Nicholas wrote:
> The movie went to the other extreme, cutting it too much in the 
> interests of dramatic tension.
> 
> I would like to have seen something halfway between what the book 
> gave us and what we saw on the screen.

Jen Again,
Couldn't agree with you more, more Shrieking Shack would have packed 
a nice emotional punch for those of us who need that sort of thing.

Jen, running off to the mundanity of her RL...