Exposition and the Future

[dk59us]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
> Steve:
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> The thing is, in the movie, the story could have gone exactly as it did, except Harry hides the book himself. They get their romantic moment, and Harry personally hides the book. That seems simple enough.
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> The problem isn't that the broader story went the way it did in the movie, or that they made the general changes they made, it is that they compromised this one very important detail. 
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> I guess we will know how they deal with it in a few months and they might surprise us, but I too wonder why JKR let them make this change? Perhaps, she didn't know about it until she actually saw the movie and it was too late then. 
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> I would assume if she knew, and if she allowed it, then the movie makers must have had the plot point resolved before hand. I would think she would have to see the resolution in advance, before she would consent to it. 
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> Still of everything in the movies that's been left out or changed, this seems like the biggest mistake of all. 
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> Steve/bboyminn
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Eustace_Scrubb:
You're right, they could have gotten their romantic moment and still have Harry hide the book.

But I think their motivation was to give Ginny something important to do, not simply to get a romantic moment between the two.

If I'm right, then they will also need to have Ginny find it for Harry, so I am guessing she'll be in the finding scene too--maybe rescuing her will mean both Goyle will die in the Fiendfyre, as well as Crabbe.

So although I may think it's a major plot problem, I have a suspicion that the filmmakers don't agree.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb