OOTP Movie

[justcarol67]

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Carol:

To respond to the spoiler-space question, I had to wait until August
13 when a certain person was back from North Carolina!

Veronica wrote:
<snip> 
> BUT yes, I was FURIOUS that Bellatrix AK'd Sirius.  WAY too off-canon.

Carol:

It was uncanonical, true, but I think the writer and director wanted
Sirius Black to be unambiguously dead, not leaving the audience
wondering (as many readers did) whether he would come back from behind
the Veil. Having Bellatrix AK him certainly took away from his
reckless daring in dueling on the dais of the Veil (as well as his
surprise as he's flung backward alive through the Veil), but as I
said, they wanted the audience to know definitively that Bellatrix had
murdered him. I also think that his part was rewritten to make him a
more sympathetic character than he is in the books (not so brooding
and self-absorbed) and to make Harry's loss seem greater.

Just my opinion after having seen the film belatedly and only once.

Carol, wishing she had a transcript of Snape's lines, which are also
rather different from the book