PoA Question

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 105506

I hope the list-elves will indulge me here for a moment.  I have a question about the PoA movie but only as it relates to the books and what we have been talking about the last few days about foreshadowing.

Several people here think that the PoA movie, particularly some 'added' scenes or incidents that were not in the book, foreshadow what is going to happen in books 6 & 7.  If that is the case, can we also assume that the things that were left out, things that we think - for one reason or another - are important, are not as important as we thought?

I thought Crookshanks' role was severely reduced in PoA movie and I felt he had a stronger role in that book, very imporant role what we didn't really get to see in the movie, and I also think old Crookshanks is going to have another role to play, yet.

Also, in the book, we learned a lot of, what I thought, was relevant and important info during the Shrieking Shack chapters that never made it to the movie.  Was this stuff not important to 'the rest of the story?'

Another thing I've always thought was very important, is Snape's not very subtle inference to Fudge, that Harry isn't quite the child most of the WW believes him to be.  I thought he planted just a niggling seed of doubt about Harry in Fudge's mind, that compounded the following year with Rita Skeeter's blather in the DP about Harry, brought Fudge, at least in part, to his 'parting of the ways' with DD. He couldn't believe Harry, so obviously if DD believed Harry, DD is as addled as HP is.  I have always thought it was Snape's first drop of doubt there that started the ball rolling.  Whether that particular bit of info is important or not, I thought losing the whole scene from the book to the movie quite startling.

So, do you think the stuff that has been left out, important things, mean they are not as important after all?

Cathy - who has way too much time on her hands, obviously, if she sits and thinks about this stuff all day!

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