Two WTF moments in the movie (spoilers)

[va32h]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> Actually, I intend to watch and enjoy the movie, particularly the performances of Alan Rickman and Tom Felton. (I also like Rupert Grint and am glad that he's something more than a comic sidekick in this film.) I don't mind the changes to Cormac McLaggen; the filmmakers probably handle the whole romantic comedy subplot better than JKR did.

va32h: Rickman's screen time is negligible. 


> But my concern is with the Snape/Draco/Dumbledore subplot, which is really the heart of the book. Snape is the Half-Blood Prince, after all, so the book is about his relationship with Harry on two levels.

va32h: This is less than a subplot. It's a blip. The revelation that Snape is the HBP is very brief, is delivered with so little energy (and with so little reaction from Harry) that most of the people I was with did not even note it's significance.



> BTW, did the filmmakers make young Lucius, young Severus, and young Regulus cronies of Tom Riddle's at Hogwarts in the Slughorn memory? If so, any viewers who remember that Tom Riddle was at Hogwarts fifty years before Harry (mentioned in the CoS film as well as the book) must wonder how Snape and Malfoy could be so well preserved. (Yes, Alan Rickman is actually 65 or something, but Snape looks fortyish, as does Malfoy (one of the few adult actors who's the right age for his character.)

va32h:  The memory lasts but seconds onscreen, and none of Riddle's classmates are named. 


As it's own separate entity, closely tied to the books, but not really a part of that story, the films are good. But looking for a faithful chapter by chapter adaptation is just asking for disappointment. 

va32h