Exposition and the Future

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Andrea Grevera" <agdisney at ...> wrote:
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>   Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Exposition and the Future
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>   Lastly, the most confusing unresolved Plot Point -
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>   In the books, Harry hid the Potions Books in the Room of Requirement, and he knows exactly where it is and what it looks like. This is very necessary to resolving the plot.
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>   However, in the movies, Ginny hid the Potions Books, ... FROM HARRY TOO. How can they possible reconcile that is a way that is not a huge distraction?
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>   Steve/bboyminn
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>   Andie:
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>   I agree with the Diadem problem.  I always said that will be a major problem to overcome.
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>   I don't understand how JK let them do the scene that way knowing how Harry had to come back to it in the last book.  ...
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>   I wasn't thrilled with Part 1 -  ...
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>   My 2 cents.
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Just my opinion, but I think they were desperate to find some place to shoehorn in a romantic moment between Harry and Ginny, and this was the best they could do. 

But when they made that decision, I don't think they were looking to the future, and now they have an important aspect of the plot that simply can not be resolved, or at least not resolved in any satifying way.

I'm OK with the movies, though I do agree with deletions and changes. But you have to keep in mind the length of the HP Audio Books; more than anything this helps up the movies into perspective. One of the audio books, though I can't remember which one, is 25 hours long. 

So, the movie makers job is to condense 25 hours of story down into 2.5 hours of movie. That is not an easy task, and certainly not a task I would want to be in charge of. 

Consequently, I can live with the movies as they are. 

However, in his mind, Harry put together the pieces of the puzzle and suddenly comes to a realization as to where he has seen the Diadem. I just don't see how he can connect those dots, when the most important and crucial DOT of all is MISSING?

And I don't see how he can just be told where the Diadem is. I mean the Ravenclaw ghost could say she has seen it in the Room of Requirements, but that seems a little cheezy, and something of a weak cop-out. At some point Ginny could come to the realization that she has seen the Diadem and tell Harry it is in the Room of Requirement. But, the Room is a big complex place, and how do you explain to anyone where the Diadem is located among centuries of chaos? 

What was once something of the corner stone of the story, has now become a somewhat ridiculous and weak side note. 

Certainly, on this one issue, this couldn't be the best they could come up with. To confound and confuse the plot so thoroughly, just to have Harry and Ginny kiss seems a very poor trade off. I would rather they manufactured a random way for them to kiss, than to confound the plot so thoroughly. 

Steve/bboyminn