MOVIE: Comparisons

[ZaraG]

No: HPFGUIDX 191129

> Amandageist: 
> 1. In OP, when Harry, Hermione, and Umbridge are in the Forbidden 
> Forest,  and the centaurs are carrying her away, and she pleads for > Harry to tell them she means no harm (or whatever), and he 
> answers, "I'm sorry, Professor, but I must not tell lies."  I LOVED > that.

Zara:
That was a very nice movie moment, yes! The question is would we like it better than what the book did instead. In the books, Hermione offends the centaurs by admitting she was trying to use them to get rid of Umbridge. Did they have that element in the movie? I don't recall that they did. The movies do a lot less with the Magical Beings threads of the series plot, I thought moment was an excellent adaptation in line with that overall choice. It was simpler, but also very true to Harry's character.

> 2. In DH part 2, when Snape is dying, after he says, "Look at me,"
> he says. "You have your mother's eyes."  
> I thought this was perfect--because in the seven years leading up
> to this, Snape has only ever admitted to seeing James in Harry; and > in this last moment, he finally acknowledges Harry as Lily's son. 

Zara:
I did not mind this, but think this would have been completely the wrong choice in the book. Too heavyhanded. And also, I liked in the book that Snape's injury was so severe he was barely able to speak at all. He said quite a bit more in the movie! Which I think the poor audience probably needed, so I do not begrudge it.

Anyway, Snape does acknowlegde Harry as Lily's son in the books without this addition, in his memories, in what is my favorite scene of the book series, that only made it onto screen in truncated, mashed up form. (Don't get me wrong, it was a lovely, artfully done truncated mashed up form that miraculously preserved so much of what was in the book, but I would not trade it for the original).

DH, "The Prince's Tale":
"I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger
for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter's
son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for
slaughter—"