OoP omitted scenes (spoilers)

[justcarol67]

Spoiler space. Don't read this post if you haven't read the reviews
and don't want to know what will and won't be in the OoP film.
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Does anyone else get the idea from the reviews posted so far that
certain favorite (or important) scenes are going to be omitted? With
no Mundungus, we're not going to see Figgy battering him with catfood
cans. The touching scene in which Alice Longbottom gives Neville the
gum wrapper is also being left out. So, apparently, is the delicious
confrontation between Sirius Black and Snape at 12 GP, in which Snape
gets Sirius's goat yet manages to inform him (snidely) that he's been
seen in dog form by Lucius Malfoy on Platform 9 3/4.

I don't mind the omission of Dobby (one house-elf is enough, and they
do need Kreacher), but the Longbottoms are important in relation to
the Neville/Bellatrix conflict (will she Crucio him in the film?) and
the Snape/Sirius confrontation is important because it provides Harry
with his excuse for blaming Black's death on Snape. Figgy battering
Mundungus isn't important, true, but it's a great bit of physical
comedy (and Mundungus deserved it).

More important, they've omitted Harry's excursion into the Pensieve
and made it into a memory revealed by Harry's Protego, apparently--a
bad decision, IMO, because it isn't really a plausible mechanism since
Snape would certainly have stopped that memory immediately had he not
put it in the Pensieve and writing it this way removes Harry's
responsibility for invading Snape's memories. At least they're keeping
"Snape's worst memory." And, IIRC, the scene where Harry informs Snape
that Padfoot is being held where it's hidden (bad paraphrase, sorry)
is also being kept--very important since it's Snape who sends the
Order to the MoM.

I can't remember whether Molly's Boggart is shown. I think that's cut,
too. I can understand why since it takes time and might be confusing
to people unfamiliar with the story, but it's a great scene as it
reads in the book.

Carol, who can happily live without extendable ears and dung bombs and
wishes it were possible to eliminate Grawp