Is Buckbeak Indispensable (& Other PoA Edits)?

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27388

Ken wrote:

Most important, I think, is that without the time 
> turner, Harry can't conjure the patronus and rescue himself from 
the 
> dementors in the forest. 

I fear in my desire to keep my own post short, I was unclear about 
what gets cut.  The time-turner definitely stays in the film.  We 
just don't have Ron and Hermione discuss her course schedule again 
and again and again, and she only turns up unexpectedly once or twice 
instead of again and again and again.  

> Also remember that GoF is 300+ pages more than PoA. I have no idea 
> how they're going to make that into a 2 1/2 hour movie!
> 
Me either.  When I get out my red pen, huge hunks of GoF will hit the 
cutting room floor.  But we can save it for another day.

Cindy (wondering if Chris Columbus can be persuaded to tank the CoS 
movie entirely so we can get right to PoA and GoF)