Sacrilege: two bits I liked more than the book.

[johnkclark]

 "Tim" <dumbledad at ...> wrote:

> "why didn't Dumbledore snap the Elder Wand"

I wish nobody had snapped the Elder Wand, and in the book the reasons given for Harry not using it made no sense at all and was the worst flaw in the book, if you don't count Percy (yawn) turning out to be a good guy after all. In the book the implication is that destroying a wand as powerful as the Elder wand would be about as easy as destroying the ring in the lord of the Rings, and everybody now knew that Harry was master of the Elder Wand whether he used it or not, so he's going to have a target on his back for the rest of his life no matter what, so he might as well use the most powerful wand in the world to defend himself.

And at the end I wish both the movie and the book had given some indication that the last 19 years had not been entirely rainbows and lollypops. I've heard that originally the last sentence in the last book was "but lately only those who loved him could see Harry's scars" but then Rowling changed it to a more sugary sweet "all was well". I wish she hadn't. At least give Harry a slight limp, or have him wear a black leather glove on one hand hinting that there was something not quite right with it.

> "Like others I loved the movie but thought many changes failed the book (e.g. >Lily's eye colour"

I don't think that was important.

> "dungeoned Slytherins"

I don't understand. What was wrong with that? They just tried to sell Harry to Voldemort 

> "no jubilation at Voldemort's death"

Yes I agree, they should have shown that.

>"But there were two changes (possibly three if you include Harry's Cruciatus) >where I preferred the movie over the book.

Why would the drama have suffered if they had shown Harry's Cruciatus? 

>  "I felt portraits in the book had too much agency." 

Yes, Dumbledore's portrait took away some of the poignancy over his death and diminished the drama somewhat.

> "much of the scenes between Dumbledore and Snape which we see in the pensieve together and have them occur when Dumbledore is alive."

Absolutely. I never liked a portrait giving Snape orders, but I did like Dumbledore at King's Cross Station who might or might not have been a creation of Harry's subconscious figuring out the last parts of the puzzle. 

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