PoA Question

[sad1199]

No: HPFGUIDX 105715

Cathy <cldrolet at s...> wrote:
>> 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? <<


 sad1199 replies: 
I have said this in e-mails to others but have not posted it yet. 
I don't think that any changes in the movies are credible. JKR 
wrote "the books", a screenwriter rewrote them into movies. I know 
she has to approve of them but I also know that the movies have to 
be shortened, romanticized and edited to make them watchable for 
most of the non-reading public. There are no obvious instances of 
romance between Hermione and Harry in the books, yet people are 
seeing them in PoA (the movie). 

If JKR is for some reason changing her thinking and adding or deleting important facts for the movies to support future books I myself will 
be very disappointed. Such as the wand scene in the movie that was not 
in the book. If that comes to be important in book 6 or 7 after not 
being in book 4 JKR will lose my respect as a writer and author. I am 
an author myself (though not of JKR's standing) and an AVID book reader. 
It just would not benefit anyone for the differences (in the books and 
the movies) to have significance. We need to stick to the books for 
our facts. Thank you for letting me ramble on... 

sad1199