Casting mis-steps

[Carol]

md wrote: 
> I liked that in PS & COS that there was the great expanse of the Dark Forest just beyond Hagrid's hut, since they moved the hut the Dark Forest seems to have vanished and in the last three films there's just an expanse of ordinary woods around the grounds. I only cared that they moved the hut because these changes really break the continuity from the first two films to the third one and after. In many respects there's Harry Potter 1 & 2 and Harry Potter 3 through 7 (well, soon enough) rather than one series of films,  I think the change in topography visually separates the films by drawing the audience's attention to the differences.

Carol responds:

I agree about the break between HP 1 and 2 and the later films making them seem as if they belong to two different series, but I think that that break would have been noticeable even without the changes in topography because of the Cuaron-initiated changes in costuming and makeup. Those changes, for me (along with the shrunken heads), make PoA particularly jarring when I watch it soon after the first two films.

By the way, it looks as if the Quidditch players no longer wear robes in HBP even though the films' costume designers have always had the actors wear pants (trousers) under them. Now they'll just have digitally added cloaks. I guess JKR never considered the difficulty of riding a broom wearing a robe. (Dumbledore will have to manage it in HBP, though.)

Carol, wishing that Steve Kloves had used the term "Forbidden Forest" rather than "Dark Forest" in SS/PS, but "forbidden forest" is uncapitalized in the book, so maybe he didn't notice it and invented a name