[the_old_crowd] Movie VS Book and OotP Siri thrown in (was: Never again)

[Rynne]

Saitaina:
> Would how much you love the novel
> version of PoA effect how much you like
> the movie?  

I think so.  A great many of my online friends say that PoA is their
favorite of the books, and I agree with them.  And it is because PoA
is my favorite book that I have no desire to see the movie; to this
day, I, like Nora, have not seen it, and after hearing about the
things that Cuaron cut out and put in, I don't regret that decision. 
I've always loved the backstory of MWPP, and to hear that it's been
cut...I still wince.  And the spelling "Mooney" on the map--even
though I know it's an inside joke, Remus Lupin remains my favorite
character, and mispelling his nickname like that makes me want to
start tearing hair out.  Then there's Remus waxing poetic over Lily,
even though it's really *James* that he reacts to in the book, and
James who was one of his best friends.

Though perhaps one of the things that annoys me the most about the
movie, even without having seen it, is Super!Hermione.  Not only does
she take over Ron's line, which I consider to be the epitome of Ron,
but one of Harry's as well!  I'm told Hermione, in the movie, said the
line, "NO! I trusted you! And All this time you've been his friend!"
when it belongs to Harry, and, in fact, does not make sense in context
when said by Hermione.  Hermione's not the one who had those extra
lessons with Remus, or any of that.  That was Harry.  Harry had more
cause to trust Remus, and more cause for hurt when he believed Remus
betrayed that trust.  And of course, there's all the rest of the
things Hermione did that make me cringe just thinking about them--the
werewolf howl?  WTF?

I don't like the movies much.  I didn't like PS/SS the movie, or CoS,
and rather than watch my favorite of the books be mutilated, I decided
to not watch it.  I heartily prefer book canon, thanks.

> Speaking of Sirius, before OoTP, he
> didn't seem that unstable to me, but
> after OotP I saw more of what Azkaban
> did to him, am I the only one?  Is this
> just because we didn't see much of him
> through three and four or did I just
> completely miss that he's a few Knuts
> short of a galleon?  I know he's always
> been slightly...off but in OotP he was
> a bit more then slightly.
> 
> Saitaina

There's been quite a bit of discussion about this.  I think the most
simple answer is that, during GoF, Sirius was doing something he
considered useful--watching over and advising Harry.  In OotP, he was
so much useless baggage; when Snape kept sniping at him about not
being able to leave the house and do something useful, there wasn't
much he could say.  And too, bring in the Grimmauld Place has to be
almost as full of nasty memories as Azkaban, I'm not surprised Sirius
was losing it.  I just sorta resent JKR for it being so sudden;
couldn't she at least have shown the beginning of the disintigration
of Sirius's control/sanity through letters to Harry, or something?

--Rynne, who needs to get back working on her research paper