My Review of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

[montavilla47]

> Montavilla47:
> Plus, we then get one of those scenes where other actors have to *tell*
> us what happened. It reminds me of that clumsy moment in PS/SS when
> we learn that Harry made the Quidditch team from Nearly Headless Nick.
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> md:
> We know Harry is on the Quidditch team because McGonagall
> Marches him over to Wood and announces she's found him a seeker, hardly from
> Nearly Headless Nick.

Montavilla47:
Right.  But right after, I believe, Harry gets that lesson from
Oliver Wood about the different types of balls, we get this totally
unnecessary moment where Nick is says to some random ghost 
girl, "Did you hear that Harry Potter was put onto the Gryffindor 
Quidditch team?  I always knew that boy would make good!" (Or
words to that effect, I don't remember them exactly.)

It was completely unnecessary, since, as you say, we already
got that information when McGonagall told Wood that she'd 
found him a seeker, and then we had a whole scene where 
Harry learns how to play Quidditch.

Which makes the line unnecessary and clumsy exposition.

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> Montavilla47:
> In the film, Harry has no reason *not* to take Snape's orders. There's
> hardly
> any tension between the two of them, and the key conflict for Harry (Snape 
> telling Voldemort the prophecy) is never revealed.
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> md:
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> Harry and Snape had "tension" since the first film, that doesn't have to be
> new to the movie. Also, Harry heard Snape and Draco, he knows of the
> unbreakable vow, he knows Snape must stand by Draco, so yes, he has TONS of
> reasons not to trust or listen to snape.

Montavilla47:
It doesn't have to be new, but it has to be there.  And it isn't.  Not to
point that it was in the book.  We miss all the great Snape/Harry 
moments.  We don't get Snape walking Harry up to the castle and
making him humiliate himself by walking into the Great Hall a 
bloody mess.   We don't get Harry showing Snape up in class.  
We especially don't get the confrontation between them when 
Snape calls Harry a liar and a cheat, or the dramatic information that
Snape caused Voldemort to target Harry's family.

Sadly, in DH, that drama goes nowhere, so perhaps it was wise
of the film makers to drop it, but had that not been the case, they
would have cut out a major dramatic development.