[HPFGU-Movie] Seeing OOTP

[Valerie Flowe]

I'm sure it was just a way to wrap up (in 1 sentence, no less!) the 
whole 'other' side of Sirius's character that was woefully omitted from 
the film, due to time, no doubt (the lunatic fringe, alcoholic, deeply 
depressed, soul-sucked, very egocentric Sirius). He was truly a broken 
man in the books; Azkaban had ruined him. If he was depressed before 
(by having a psychotic mother who would burn his name off the family 
tree and drove him out of the house with her pure-blood mania and 
blatant favoritism towards Regulus) than Azkaban surely drove him over 
the edge. I don't think he was capable of truly separating Harry from 
James. He was that 'ungrounded' in reality. And had been so crushed 
over James and Lily's death. They don't really go into it in the books, 
even, but imagine the guilt he must've felt over having transferred the 
Fidelis Charm from him to Petegrew? (which actually made little sense 
to me. I imagine Sirius had no respect for Peter in school. So why 
trust him with such a monumental task? Hmmm).
ANYHOW, I think the director just threw that in to appease the HP 
readers, though it was a bit jarring and probably made no sense 
whatsoever to the non-HP readers. I still think it would've been sooooo 
much better to cut the scene where the twins were consoling that kid 
(which ain't in the book!) and put in the fire talk between 
Harry/Sirius/Remus. Same amount of time could've been allotted but it 
would've told the story much better. Someone (director, writer, both?) 
obviously decided to just make Sirius a warm, fuzzy, ever-so-slightly 
sad ("I gave my house to the OotP; It's the only thing I've been able 
to do") and ever-so-slightly reckless ("What's life without a little 
risk?") Ahhh, can you tell I've spent many, many hours on Sirius!?! 
He's my fav, and I believe, the most miscast, though otherwise I think 
Oldman is brilliant; just all wrong as canon Sirius. That's ok; I've 
have my own Sirius in my mind's eye. :-) Ok, Val, back to reality!!!
Valerie


On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:15 PM, CK Campbell wrote:

> Does anyone know who made the decision for Sirius to call Harry "James"
>  during the climactic battle?
>
>  Carolyn
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