Question About Harry's Gift To Mr. Weasley

[Carol]

> [Lee]:
> That's why I asked the question, Steve.  Knowing that the Dursleys
don't give him any money, I wondered how he could have gotten the
items.  Did he (A) find money in the street and save it up to buy the
stuff, (b) find the stuff in the trash, (c) theft it from Uncle
Vernon's shed, etc.?  <snip>

Carol responds:
I imagine that he just exchanged some gold at Gringotts for Muggle
money (as Mr. Weasley must have done in GoF to pay for their camping
spot). IIRC, Harry also got a fifty-pence one Christmas before the
gifts were reduced to tissues and toothpicks, or whatever. Maybe he
had a bit of pocket change left over from previous Christmases, but
the Gringotts idea seems more probable.

> [Steve b]:
> | I really missed the hospital scene in the movie. There was so much
wonderful humor in it.

Carol:
And the pathos of the scene with Neville's mother and the gum
wrappers. It would have made so much more sense to include that scene
than to imply that the Longbottoms had merely been Crucio'd, as the
OoP film does. (The GoF film may mention insanity, but OoP merely
gives them an unspecified fate worse than death followed by Neville's
statement that they had been Crucio'd by Bellatrix Lestrange, which
must really confuse the people who understood that Barty Crouch Jr.
was the guilty party. That they both (together with the Lestrange
brothers, who are omitted from both films) Crucio'd the Longbottoms
into insanity probably escapes moviegoers who haven't read the books.

Carol, understanding the need to condense the plot of the films but
thinking that it ought, at least, to remain consistent