YES I love book Ginny, she actually blossomed and wasn't awkward, she was also quite like Fred and George, remember "HE GOT OFF, HE GOT OFF" and then Molly telling them to tune it down and they just continue with "he got off, he got off" in a whisper. My friends that only saw the movie Ginny, didn't like her and didn't understand why Harry liked Ginny
Honestly Ginny was the best of all the Weasley siblings. She had Bills easy going trait, Charlie's affinity for quiditch and animals, Percy's drive, Fred and George's humor, Ron's loyalty
The handling of Ginny in the movies is probably what makes it so easy for people who write fanfic to turn her evil (or at least, selfish and possessive of Harry) and easier still to pair Harry with Hermione (whose on-screen chemistry makes it easy to believe they could've been married at the end). Not that she was given a ton of the book equivalent of screen-time either, but I think the last time she had a personality in the movies was in Chamber of Secrets. If it wasn't for the fact that Ginny ends up being important to Harry by the end of the series, thus making it difficult to recast the part without extenuating circumstances being involved, I would have been okay with someone other than Bonnie Wright playing Ginny in the movies. That doesn't guarantee that the character would have been more interesting with a different actress, but Bonnie Wright somehow got worse as an actress as the series went on.
Kreature needed his scene of redemption. It was so touching in the books to see him warming to Harry (thanks to Hermione), cleaning the house and cooking nice meals for them. There are only three absences from the films that I felt really should have been included: SPEW, Hokey and Hepzibah Smith, and Peeves.
The Potion task in Philosopher's Stone The background of Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot & Prongs The career's appointment with McGonagall, Harry & Umbridge "Have a biscuit Potter" The full King's Cross exchange between Harry & Dumbledore
@Nathan Creek I would argue that the potion's task and the background of Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs were extremely important. The former is where Hermione really shines. I sort of hate that her moment was with the Devil's Snare in the movie. It just wasn't as good. The potions task really shows us exactly who Hermione is and what her strengths really are. It should have been there. The latter really explains Harry's patronus. Granted, if you already read the books, it was easy enough to remember and thus infer, but it's never really explained in detail in the movies at all, and I know people who saw the movies but never read the books who are still confused about Harry's patronus, or any of them. It really should have been in the movie...
mysterium vitae I KNOW WTF WHY DID YOU SNAP IT YOU IDIOT NOW YOUVE GOT TO BUY A NEW WAND AND YOU HAVE TO JUST GET RID OF THE WAND THAT IS LITERALLY THE ONLY REASON YOU LIVED BEYOND THE AGE OF 14
I'm really sad they cut the dudley/harry goodbye, it was such a touching moment and the actor did a really good job with it. Highly recommend you watch the deleted scene if you havent
I'm still not over how they cut harry and Ginny's first kiss. That was the best part because it showed the beginning of their love story. Also when they broke up it was because they didn't want to hurt each other. Harry and Ginny do not have as much chemistry as they did in the books.
I only saw the movies, and i hate their romance. Ginny comes off as a rabid fangirl & while i dont like the harmione ship, it's still better than Ginny x Harry...
Yeah, They were nothing but COWARDS they knew they couldn't have taken her in daylight and let's be real the only reason they got her, was because she was distracted. It really isn't shown how everyone loved Her, even the slytherins were scared and or mad
I'm still salty about how they portrayed voldemorts death in the films. It ties in with them leaving out Tom Riddles family history. It takes away the humanity of Tom Riddle aka Voldemort and misses a huge opportunity of one of the MAJOR themes in the books, that being ''everyone has light and dark in them, it's the path you choose that determinds your character and who you are as a person''. That overdramatic death raises voldemort to be this inhumane being as opposed a person who choose to dark over light, and that anyone could've been capable of those things giving the right mix of circumstances and character.
Indeed. Rowling used the phrase "mundane finality" to describe the moment of Voldemort's death ("Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing"). That point was entirely missed in the film. Nor is it clear, in the film, that he was killed by his own curse.
N H well I for one think his death in the books was kinda anticlimactic. I mean this is the moment the series has been building up to and it's just it kinda like oh his spell rebounded and killed him. The movie one was way more dramatic which I liked and for the inhuman thing they gave Bellatrix a weird death as well. I don't think Bella even had a horcrux so her soul was intact. Anyways that's just my opinion.
PuppyLover3906 _ i personally think it was meant to be anticlimactic. as people have said above, a big theme of the series was the light and dark in everyone and in the books there was so much history with riddle's family and him before he was The Dark Lord™. his death was supposed to be a human death. it was supposed to be nothing special. it was supposed to show that no matter how powerful you are or how many times you split your soul, you're just as human as everyone else. the movie completely missed that. just my thoughts (:
In connection with this, I missed that in the books, the whole school witnessed the death of Voldemort but in the movie NO ONE is there when Harry destroys him. I mean, it's a historic moment yet no one is there to see it.
Charles Patsch Voldemort's choice made Harry the chosen one so he is the chosen one, Neville was just another option, nothing more nothing less. Besides, in the end both ended up being important to the prophecy.
You missed: .Kreacher .Phineas Nigellus .Gilderoy Lockhart in St Mungo's .80% of the order of the phoenix .Dobby in most of the books .The books awesome opening to the half blood prince .Dumbledores funeral .Firenze .All the other centaurs in the forest
Marauders back story (literally cut from two chapters to two lines of dialogue), Ludo Bagman, Triwizard money from Harry to Fred and George (where else did they get the money to start up a joke shop??) and Rita Skeeter is a beetle animagus scenario are all other important things missed out of the films, regrettably some are still more important than others but all the same these are the main other things that the movies missed out that come to mind for me
I know I'm just happy I read first and then watched the movie, because There was so much more in the books, especially in Harry Potter and The Philosopher's stone, Hermione and the boys' relationship is quite packed in
I really missed two things 1 the weasleys pick harry up from privet drive at beginning of goblet of fire. 2 Dumbledore picking harry up at beginning of half blood prince both would have been absolutely hilarious
@@slickiej9716 in the book , Dumbledore comes to privet drive and there was little chat about Sirius Will and about Sirius leaving everything to Harry and Harry becomes kreachers master
Lmao, I would have LOVED to see the Weasleys picking Harry up in the beginning of Goblet of Fire! Can you imagen Arthur, Fred, George and Ron bursting from the fireplace!! 😂😂
The money that Harry won from the tri-wizard tournament and gave to Fred and George so they could start their shop! That always annoyed me it wasn't in the film as it was something so simple! That, and sirius' mirror that (no pun intended), magically appeared when the plot required it.
I think Firenze was the Divination teacher, taking over for Trelawney until she returned. I really wish they'd included him more in the movies, because the centaurs were really interesting.
Firenze continued on teaching even after Trelawney returned because he was banned from the forest for working for a human. So Dumbledore kept him as a teacher to keep him safe.
It always, always bothered me that the films never made it clear that James, Remus, Sirius and Peter were the creators of the Maurauder's Map. There's an entire chapter of exposition and backstory in Prisoner of Azkaban at the Shrieking Shack that gets jettisoned/reduced to a 5-minute film scene all about catching Peter Pettigrew; I realize exposition can be boring, but it was all really important for the future books/movies and the flashbacks would have given a better pace to a scene that's too quickly rushed through in an otherwise good movie.
Serena Bramble The third movie was the point at which the cast and crew stopped caring. The fifth movie is so fucking abridged. The fourth didn't do too bad. Certain individual moments could have been better, but the drama was done justice. The third movie is a joke. The sixth movie needed to cover more content as well. The 7th and 8th just needed to stick to the script and include everything. Yet, despite being separated into two full length movies, they still managed to miss things and rewrite others. Ffs, that's grade a bullshit.
lord of the rings fan not a big deal? NOT A BIG DEAL!?!? BEING A PREFECT IS A HUGE DEAL!!!! Sorry Harry Potter argument voice. Here let us try this again: being a prefect is a huge deal because is a big honour to all wizards/ and or witches. It gives you a bigger responsibility therefore would have been a huge deal for Hermione. Personally I think that Hermione would have made a excellent prefect.
I agree with you on Harry's last duel with Lord Voldemort. I was looking forward to see Harry, telling the truth in front of everyone, clearing Snape's name, and asking Tom to stop his madness. Instead, we have a short fight WITHOUT ANY WITNESSES. I found it so important that Harry defeated the darkest wizard of his time in front of everybody.
iio-chan Moon YESSSS!!! I keep commenting on this in all similar videos, LOL. That is the most unsatisfying thing in the movie!!! 😬😬😬😬😬 I felt sooo disappointed when I watched it.........so I only watch the last movie twice and didn't buy the DVD. I watched the others at least twenty times each...especially the first, second, and fourth movie...I rewatch it soo many times until the DVDs broken.
tbh, the whole battle unwrap didn't really allow this to happen. They weren't in the great hall as in the books and Death Eaters are a bit smarter in the films than in the books, so a bunch of people actually just looking at the final battle with the evilest guy around wound't make much sense, as in, why tf they didn't help Harry
Nik Because they all know that it was Harry, and only Harry alone should face Voldemort. All the people already knew about the prophecy. Both sides believe their leader would definitely win the battle, so nobody try to interrupt anything...the only person who would probably interrupt, Bellatrix, was dead. Pardon my sentences, I hope you get the essence of what I mean...
I actually preferred the movie version of the final duel. In the book, there is a lot of talking at first, and then Harry and Voldemort cast Expelliarmus and Avada Kedavra, and the fight is over. So much buildup for the final duel, and only 2 spells are cast. In the movie, there is a lot of fighting between Harry and Voldemort. Yes, it would have been nice if there were many witnesses, but I still loved that was a lot more spell casting than just "Avada Kedavra!" "Expelliarmus!"
Nik remember, there was a huge charm that was placed around both and there's a theory maybe at some points they were speaking parsletongue, but meh there was a charm so yeah
Yeah they royally fucked up the final battle between harry and mouldy voldy, opting for more "pointing wands at each other with red and green" action instead.
Paddy Hugill i know and jumping out the bloody window what did you do that for harry you idiot just because voldemort can fly doesnt mean you can and nothing is stopping him from just dropping you i know that for any losers who didn't read the book the two of then walking in a circle and talking might be boring but they should have read the books shouldn't they i for on would have loved if it ended the way it did in the book
Gotta admit, the entire subplot with Remus' and Tonks' relationship and Teddy, it still brings tears to my eyes. Remus and Tonks dying at the end of the book is the saddest and most emotional part in the entire series for me.
Ikr, it just breaks my heart how Harry has to watch what happened to him as a baby happen to teddy and you know he’s gonna do everything in his power to make sure teddy grows up happy because he didn’t
yep, that's a general limitation of film adaptations of books, the narrative is lost and in this case, harry's sass and internal struggles/dialogues are mostly missing in the movies
What about Neville breaking out of a binding curse put on him by voldemort, pulling the sword of Gryffindor out of the sorting hat, and cutting off naginis head? may I add that Neville was oN FIRE WHEN HE DID THIS?? where was that in the movie???
cheyenne fernley and where were all the people crying and shouting abuse at the death eaters when harry died???? in the movie its like lol he died what are we gonna do now
"The Marauders" should be on this list. POA didn't elaborate on the friendship of James, Remus, Sirius and Peter, made no mention of how they were all animagi that kept Remus company during his transformations, how they made the map, and all that. it just lessens the introduction of Remus and Sirius, lessens Peter's continuous betrayal in GoF and lessens Siruis' and Remus' death.
And on top of that, no one who JUSt watched the movies really knows how Sirius and Remus know about the map or the relevance of Harry's patronus, Prongs.
Sirius's mirror. The goddamn mirror in the fifth movie harry never gets it and suddenly in movie seven he just has this magical chunk of mirror that lets him see some guys eyeball on occasion and dobby can find him when he has it and that old dude who turns out to be old dumbles's brother has a mirror just like it GUYS WTF I THOUGHT JK READ ALL THE MOVIE SCRIPTS TO MAKE SURE THEY DIDNT CONTRADICT THE FUTURE MOVIES WHAT HAPPENED
Well, they didn't contradict. Just abbreviated what happened in the books. Does make me wonder though: What people who haven't read the books think of the movies?
xNailgunx Pigwidgeon is my favorite character cut from the movies. I know he's just an owl but the way he's always so exited about delivering letters is so adorable.
We don't need a Pig in the movie :P (In the Dutch version of the books that owl is called "Koekeroekus" which Ron abbreviates to "Koe", which means "Cow" in Dutch. I guess "Varken" (Pig) was not a good name to pronounce).
Jacob Buczak it was so short because the actor who played George couldn't keep redoing the scene and watching his brother die, so they had to shorten it.
I would have really liked to see Fred's death on screen. It would have been sad, but awesome at the same time. Seeing a death eater get turned into a sea urchin, and seeing an explosion throwing Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, Percy, etc. across the school would have been so cool.
Movies cut out most of Lupin and Tonks' relationship (particularly the stuff in Deathly Hallows), most notably him angsting about whether he passed on his condition to his son when he finds out Tonks is pregnant, leading to him walking out on Tonks and trying to convince Harry to let him help with the Horcrux hunting, leading to Harry yelling at Lupin and finally hammering it into his thick skull that he needs to go back to look after his family, leading to Lupin pulling himself together and going back to his wife and then having this really adorable scene right after Teddy's born when he goes rushing into Shell Cottage to gush and brag about his son and makes Harry Teddy's godfather, effectively healing the rift that had formed between him and Harry due to Lupin's earlier idiocy, and then later Lupin telling Tonks to stay behind with Teddy when he sets out for the Battle of Hogwarts (because he very much wants to take care of his family at this point and is dead-on determined to keep them safe), which of course Tonks ignores because she's Tonks and so she leaves their son with her mother and sets out to fight, and she spends a good portion of said battle trying to locate her husband and then they die and it is so sad because Lupin was actually happy for the first time since James died and he had a family and things were looking up for him and then he was killed and all of that was taken away… (Ahem)… Sorry about that. I was just really upset that they cut out all of that. I love the way that Lupin and Tonks develop throughout Deathly Hallows and was bummed out that the movies didn't show any of it… bad enough they cut out Teddy, they had to cut out EVERYTHING about the Lupins…
Personally I'm kind of glad a lot of it got cut because the name Tonks annoys the hell out of me. It made the last couple books difficult for me to read because I had to see that name so much. No idea why it's so annoying, but ugh. Virtually any other name would've been better. And that's coming from someone who LOATHES her given first name with every fiber of her being, and is in the process of getting it legally changed. I understand why she goes by something else, but, I don't understand why she had to choose something that's so awkward to say, and sounds like a description for a metal pipe falling down a brick well.
This tbh. I thought the snapping of the wand was actually a good change from the books... if he still repaired his phoenix wand first. Now of course, there is no way for his wand to be repaired.
yap but i think the wand cant be destroyed like that ,,that also good/stupid scene ,,,it is given by death himself it has better meaning to hide it but also nto so good what if someone disarm harry it is not death requered to change owner so,,both way explinations are missing
Yeah, and if Invisible Cloak couldn't be summond by "accio", you couldn't just snap the Elder Wand, right?! I hate that ending in the DHpart2 ! (before epilogue and also the epilogue, but that's off topic)
I've always been disappointed that they didn't show what a hilarious character Lee Jordan is. Minor, but it would have been nice to have him actually commentate a bit under McGonnagals watchful eye. Really, they didn't show quiditch matches as much as I would like
Lee was in the first two films commentating at the Quidditch matches (I think the actor's name was Luke Knight, or something similar) but he had no humor about it like in the books and he was never seen again.
I'm currently rereading the books and I just love his commentary in the Quidditch Match against Slytherin in The Prisoner of Azkaban. The scene where he's swearing at the Slytherin's and McGonagall is equally upset as him is so hilarious.
What about the entire freakin' prophecy?! We're never given the full text of it, its connections to Trelawney and Neville are never mentioned, nor are we given a proper explanation of it in general. All the movies tell us is that it's the reason Voldemort tried to kill Harry as a baby and that one is fated to destroy the other. Boiling down such an important and complex plot point like that did it no justice at all!
Worst part of them negating the Prophecy for 80% is that it IS the goddamn prophecy that kickstarted the whole story. the Prophecy is the reason why Voldemort went after Harry in the first place. Voldemort not knowing the complete prophecy . let him to do exactly what the prophecy had foretold.. Basicly without that Prophecy the entire story spread out over 7 books and 8 movies wouldn't have happened
The locket in the House of Black in Book 5. Since it was the first Horcrux, it makes the rest of that arc come out of nowhere without much of a leg to stand on.
Paul Kapeleris Yeah and in book six when he hides to potions book and the diadem is there too. In the movie he just makes out with Ginny and she hides it. Thanks Ginny
I really was okay with living without SPEW but it was an important part of Hermione's character development from a brilliant but awkward school girl into an equally brilliant but determined woman of justice.
to be fair Dobby didn't get much better treatment either. He had a major role in Chamber of Secrets but in the books he's a pretty good presence in the next several books, notably helping Harry with the triwizard's second task in book 4 and telling Harry about the room of requirement in book 5. Then saving everyone from Malfoy manor in book 7 and meeting his untimely death at the hands of Belatrix. In the movies though. he plays his roll in Chamber of Secrets as we'd expect then we don't hear from him again until he shows in Malfoy Manor and dies in Deathly Hallows Part 1. Kinda undercuts the emotional impact of his death in my opinion especially since it was the note they ended the movie on. The death of a character we'd hadn't seen or heard from for 5 movies.
Kreacher's redemption, and the fact that the MARAUDERS made the Marauder's Map. The movie glosses over it in such a way that it would take an obsessive viewer to realize that Harry's Dad, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin actually wrote the damned thing. I also thought it was important AS HELL that Weasley's Wizard Wheezes was started in Diagon Alley with Harry's Triwizard winnings. Also the backstory with the Gaunts, and Hepsibah smith... But I do know that these things take time, and that making a movie essentially means compressing the hell out of a story to fit a two hour time window.
Gerrick Greythorne Shame, tho...Hollywood split stories like Twilight or The Hunger Games into 2 movies...but only split the last HP book to 2 movies. Each book deserves 2 or more movies...and I (and all the other big HP fans out there) will watch and buy them all thoroughly and patiently, LOL... I hope someday they will release the full uncut version of all 8 movies. I'd save my money and time to enjoy that.
I felt there were a few things missing from the fifth movie that absolutely needed to be there. One was the scene between Harry and Dumbledore at the end, where Harry starts destroying the office and Dumbledore explains many things. It wrapped up so much and brought more oomph to the relationship between Harry and Dumbledore, but it's totally missing from the movie. A shame.
Really? I wanted the outburst of Harry against Ron and Hermione at the beginning of Ootp. He might not have been right but after 4 years of bs Harry needed to get that out.
I had to laugh so hard while I was watching the movie shortly after I re-read the book. Because in the movie Fred and George apparate into the room and said that they heard him scream. But in the Movie he isn't screaming at all. That was in the Book. And this only makes sense in this context. Idk why they kept the phrases of F&G though. It just doesn't make sense when they leave Harrys outburst out lol
Nice work, but you missed one that sticks in my craw. They left out 10 seconds of crucial dialogue. In the climactic duel between Harry and Voldemort, Voldemort ridicules Harry's confidence, saying Harry must either think he is the better Wizard or that he has the more powerful weapon. Harry, in essence, says "I think both." That is so important because it shows that Harry already knows that HE is the master of the elder wand, not Voldemort.
Owen Pook Malfoy *was the master of the elder wand, not anymore. It's pretty common knowledge that Harry became the master of all 3 hallows by the end.
NoizyInSeattle How bout have the movies just make the whole final duel between them like it was in the book since all of it is so different. You're focusing in on one detail when the whole thing was ruined in the movie.
"It's my nickname." "Your nickname?" "What my friends call me." "I know what a nickname is." Rickman would have killed a scene like that, and the movies were sorely missing the Harry sass that found its way into the books.
gunghoun god that's literally the best scene in book six and its not like they couldn't have put it in because it wasn't important enough because he still cursed draco and i dont care that they were going for a darker tone for the sixth movie and didnt want to toss in some random humour because that random humor is one of the funniest things ive ever read
How about the redemption of Kreacher? That is one of my favourite moments in deathly hallows. It's a great scene and I was very sad to find it wasn't in the film
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels that way! I was actually really upset when it wasn't in the films. The beautifully described scene actually brought tears to my eyes while reading the books, and I was hoping to have a similar experience in the theater. But, sadly, he just dies, they momentarily mourn, and then move on. Shame.
In the first Movie Snape's logic problem with the potions wasn't there so Snape wasn't even one of the professors protecting the stone in the Movie in the 3rd Movie Harry didnt get the firebolt till the end of the of the year so idk how he would have played quidditch with no broom And in the last one Harry never repaired his Wand
it's in the books that Harry repairs his wand and puts it back in Dubledore's grave. In the movies he snaps the elder wand in half which doesn't makes any sense because that doesn't support the theory of making sure nobody could do any harm with it ever again.
the battle in the half blood prince at Hogwarts! while harry and Dumbledore are searching for the horcrux, Hogwarts is invaded by death eaters. the students (Dumbledore's Army), all take a little luck potion and fight them off until, the order of the Phoenix comes to their aid. it is there that Charlie gets scratched by Greyback, leading him to enjoy raw meat in the next book.
Bill, not Charlie. Charlie was Gryffindor's old Seeker and now works with dragons in Romania; he was left out of the fourth movie (like everything was) when he brings the dragons to the Triwizard Tournament. Bill is lanky like Ron and Percy and gets his face bitten by Fenrir Greyback. I HATE the movies, with the exception of the first two,
@@Nathan-dg7rh Can't you see that it's insane to capitalize every word? Of course they can't include every line of dialogue or every one of Harry's questions in his mind, but it's really not that difficult to include the story beats of a book; film-makers just love to make changes to whatever they're adapting to "make their mark" on it. Complacent fans that don't demand good adaptations are why we can't have nice things.
for me one of the major ones (maybe not the biggest but still major) is Voldemort death. in thee books it says he dies a normal death. that was very important to the story as (among other things) it makes it clear that HE ACTUALLY DIED THIS TIME!!
Robyn Mcbrayer It is MY biggest disappointment with the last movie. 😬😬😬 Turning Voldy to confetti without witness, hah!!! What a joke! I was hoping to see his follower took his dead body away like dogs with its tail between its legs. No cheering whatsoever...no satisfaction in the end. Terrible way to end such a spectacular series.
The gold mist in the maze didn't turn everything inside out, it turned the world upside down...and it was one of the things I was looking forward to seeing the most from that book. :(
jenny villarreal instead they make him sense them. and another thing was Voldemort reeling when the horcrux was destroyed. it DOESNT WORK THAT WAY. THEYRE DEAD BITS OF SOUL CUT OFF FROM HIM THAT ONLY EXIST ATTACHED TO SOMETHING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Elizabeth Waugh But I'm pretty sure that in the movies, instead of that, they do the whole Ron-can-do-this-he-just-needs-to-think-he's-lucky-enough fiasco. I can't remember if they did that in the books, I'm re-reading them right now. Also, they forgot the whole brain killing Ron, Ginny breaking her ankle, I'm pretty sure mcgonagall doesn't go to st my god for being hit with stupefy like 5 times, and the knife.
MinosaurChicken Isn'tASpy The book did have Harry pretending to slip Ron the Felix potion, only it was either Hermione or Ginny that caught him at it, not Luna. I agree, though, that they left way too much out of the fight at the Ministry.
Yep, I have one friend that didn't read the books and she didn't like it, but we me and my other friends, forced the books to her and she now understands
Harry Potter would have made a better series than a movie. The movies are so insanely rushed, cutting so much of the actual story out. I think it's been proven by game of thrones that the series approach is just better for these in depth novels.
I'd say you haven't really watched a whole lot of the series I'm talking about, Vikings has better production values than the Harry Potter films. For reference Harry Potter 1 (sorc/philo stone) was a $130 million budget film. Game of Thrones budget is about $100 million for a season. Vikings budget is about $40 million for it's first season. Considering that Game of Thrones has reportedly over 1 billion annual income, for what is essentially less startup capital, steady and stable returns, and less need for hype generation as the audience never hits the low spot between movies, basically you can go from selling the subscriptions to HBO/Netflix to making box sets as soon as the season is completed to the hype material for season 2, yadda yadda. So money wise, no, feature length movies make less and less sense as time goes on. A longer running series is not only cheaper to produce due to having long term contracts (paying somebody a yearly salary with what is essentially job security is typically favored over large payout contracts). It can generate more revenue, especially if you make deals with theaters to still have premier showings of episodes, you can do that along side the subscription service releases, and release hard copies and merchandies over a longer period of time so making money is better. Lastly, for the financials, it's stable. Since a lot of money comes from subscriptions to the sites, subscriptions tending to be a guaranteed sale, companies can have a ball park for how much they know they will make back, essentially, without even trying. It would have similar success to the Harry Potter films, which, believe it or not, were considered flops (as in failures) in the opening weekend box office. Not making the money you spent on the film on opening weekend caused Harry Potter's second film to have an even lower budget, they didn't become opening night successes until the deathly hollows. (then interestingly fantastic beats had the worst opening weekend of all the previous films). It would be easier to argue that having backing from Netflix, HBO, or Starz and making a series would have produced a larger revenue burst. Due to the way subscription works, the way the fandom was in general, selling it as a series would have sold it much better. You would have been able to include a lot of the more interesting characters that were dropped, we could have kept from dropping plot points, some things could be further explored. Essentially the biggest criticisms of the film (too fast paced, cut content, lack of character development) would be easily solved by turning the 2 hour movies into 10 x 50 min episodes. As for "quality" this is a pretty moot point, Harry Potter 1 and 2 were easily considered to have the worst production values of all movies at the time, this was mostly due to poor direction, not because "movies look better" nor was it much of a budget constraint. As we saw Vikings had a lot of good set design and production values, and it's 10 first episodes were 40 million to produce.
How about the romance between Tonks and Lupin? They had actually pretty nice storyline in the books but in the films Tonks just mentions "My husband and I" and that is. they even dropped the pregnancy storyline in the last movies...
I totally forgot about a few of these. Like when someone told me that Peeves wasn’t in the movies a few weeks ago, I actually didn’t believe them. The same with a few other things.
I hated they cut out the whole Dudley bit. You could tell due to the dementors he saw a bit more and learned more about his cousin as well, and that simple bit was a bit deeper.
One that annoys me is not having Barty Crouch Jr receive the Dementor's kiss at the end of Goblet but instead saying they're returning him to Azkaban. If he's still alive and still has all his faculties then they could just use veritaserum on him officially and he'd tell Fudge that Voldemort really is back. It's totally inexplicable why they don't do that in the films, collective memory loss perhaps? Also if he was just returned to Azkaban, where was he when Voldemort broke everyone out? Did he decide to stay?
marj angles he wouldn't know if Voldemort came back anyway cos he only comes back at the end of goblet of fire and as BCjr would have been in Azkaban at the time he wouldn't have a clue. as for the brake out I assume Voldemort didn't want to brake him out because he had failed him previously (in Voldemorts head at least) but I do agree that they should have stuck with the kiss.
haven;t seen the movie in a while but in the book Harry tells Barty crouch jr that Voldemort was back which indicated to Barty that his plan worked and that Voldemort was indeed back. Veritaserium definitely could have been used to corroborte Bary's story with Harry's. In the book they couldn't do so because Crouch lost his soul
Excuse me, but I think you have forgotten the Quidditch World Cup match between Ireland and Bulgaria, which happened in the fourth book. How could the producers exclude that scene, no not a scene, and irreplaceable and crucial moment.
In Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone, Harry, Ron, and hermione bring Norberta to Charlie's friends. They only put Harry and hermione in the films for that scene. That kind of put me off, the actors are perfect for the roles, but the director left out some major parts. So what if there needs to be a part two for every movie. At least it's like the books. I liked the books better than the movies. Thank you J.K Rowling for making Harry Potter.
Alisa Oden In the book, it was just Harry and Hermione. Ron was in the hospital wing, so he didn't get in trouble. Neville got caught trying to warn Harry that Draco had tattled on him. It was Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Draco who had detention with Hagrid. In the movie, the whole scene where they got rid of Norbert was cut. Instead, Draco caught them at Hagrid's with the dragon, and they all got caught walking back to the castle. Ron got detention instead of Neville.
The whole redemption of the Malfoy family and them actually staying behind after the battle was over and not running off with their tales between their leggs is the one I see as glaringly missing as with Harry.v.Voldemort and Harry.v.Dudley
Amokra Speaking of the Malfoys, I feel like there's a lot with them that the films cut out. For example, in the books Narcissa Malfoy got angry with Bellatrix for blaming the whole Ministry fiasco on Lucius and it was she that begged Snape to make the Unbreakable Vow, not Bellatrix, who was telling her she should be proud that Draco was 'chosen'. Another thing was the book describes Lucius and Narcissa not even attempting to fight (partially due to his wand having been destroyed and her giving her wand to Draco) while they run through the battle, only worrying about finding their son. They were still villains of course, but that to me added more complexity to their characters. But in the movie, they're just there and then they're not.
allydoodah Well in the end of the last book, all the house-elfs who works at hogwarts, (including creature) all goes up against voldemort with pots as helmets and kitchen knives and such as weapons so i guess you could call that elf warfare
yaaaass! denoming the garden in the original PS game was so hard! But I always found catching the pipes the attic ghoul threw was way harder. and the duel was hard too! And catching the snails Ron threw up in the bucket was hard! In fact, that entire game was hard. classic
what about how long bottom actually kills the snake , and how voldmort made him put the sorting hat on and set it on fire while it is still on longbottom's head !!!! and laughed at him then longbottom turns the tables pulling the the sword from the hat and kills the snake in a single slash!! then harry uses this moment to make his move ! how the hell did they change this badassness and why??!!!!!
Yeah. Bellatrix and/or Voldemort taunts him but Neville stands up to them so he gets the body bind spell put on him (like Hermione in the 1st year) and the sorting hat is set on fire and placed on Neville's head. Then Neville breaks free of the body bind. We later learn that he can break free because of the Elder wand not belonging to Voldemort.
In the first movie when Harry, Ron and Hermione have to play the life size chess game in order to move on to the final confrontation between Harry and Professor Quirrel/Voldemort. When Ron sacrifices his knight in order to win the game, has anyone noticed when Ron falls off, there was a piece of stone/rubble that actually hits his face and does do some real damage. If you slow it down and move frame by frame, you can see it quite clearly. Rupert did well not flinching when it hit him and kept in character. I've always thought Rupert Grint was the best actor of the 3 main characters in the first and second movies. When it came to the 3rd movie, Daniel and Emma had both improved and all three became better and better with each movie.
They really started dropping more and more balls over time. When I was a kid having my Mom read me the HP books, I stopped after the fourth one ended because 1) It demoralized the hell out of me, and 2) I was officially too old in my Mom's eyes for her to be reading me books (Jokes on her I read to her all the time). So I stopped recognizing that the mood and feelings of the books had DRASTICALLY shifted away from anything I wanted to be a part of. Shame though that might be, I thank God I held off reading them because it made watching the movies bearable. I just recently read the seven, (1-4, actually reading them by myself), and I have to say I miss my blissful ignorance. The Books do so much more, right... that I can't even deal with the movies. Though I can be the first to admit that some of the more somber scenes are sickeningly depressing. The thing I REALLY REALLY wanted out Part 2 (DH), was actually seeing Fred's Death and hearing Professor McGonagall scream when seeing Harry's dead body. I love the way it was described in the books. Maggie Smith would have killed me if she had screamed. I am just thinking about it and I am tearing up. Instead we got ... *shudders* Ginny with an unearned scream since she is barely ever around and only so that they keep the continuity alive. What a shame.
CryingBuddha exactly why I've still never seen past the fifth movie.. didn't even watch it until DVD and didn't pay much attention. While their casting was on point and the story should have held me through, the movies were just ruining it for me. I'm almost thirty, and will forever stand by the books; the movies..? Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith are the best parts. Where was Peeves?! 👻👻
Purple Gas sorry this is so late but the ghost at the party opened his mouth and tried to float through the food which didnt work. he never ate anything.
I've always thought leaving out all the animagus stuff was a mistake which encompasses: a) who the marauders wereand why the names, that they became animagus to look after Lupin during his 'time of the month', that it's ridiculously difficult to achieve and all animagus (like McGonagall) are supposed to be on a register so the government know who they are b) most of the whys and wherefores around Pettigrew, his 'death' and his hiding c) how Sirius escaped Azkaban
YES. I didn't even notice this until I watched the movie with my mom (who hasn't read the books) and at the end she said, "That was really cool, but I didn't get the connection between the stag and Harry's dad." And I spluttered and coughed and was about to ask her if she was paying attention and then realized...they never explained it. There is no connection made between the Marauders and the animagi. Huge glaring piece left out, there...
The meeting of the two prime ministers in the beginning of book six. Harry Potter is all about the magical world but its still interesting to see how wizards deal with muggles, because we've only seen muggles dealing with wizards (i.e. Harry and the Dursley's)
Careers Advice from ootp!!! Not because it was in any way important, but because the scenes between Umbridge and Mcgonagall would have been nonstop hilarious!!
I missed the Weasleys getting Harry from the Dursleys in the fourth movie, with Arthur going all nuts about muggle stuff, Vernon rampaging and the twins dropping the "ton thongue toffees". Quite unimportant scene, I understand they left it out, but I just loved it.
Similarly when Dumbledore turns up at the start of the Half-Blood prince. Harry forgot to tell the Dursleys he was coming and there's quite a funny scene with Dumbledore calmly/forcefully offering them a drink. In the film Harry is for some reason riding around the London Underground and chatting up a waitress, and Dumbledore unexpectedly appears.
Gimoroemma+ he also didn't mention REGULUS FUCKING BLACK, which really annoyed me, because everyone needs to know how awesome reg is (sorry for rambling but i just really like regulus ok)
In my opinion, although I like the movies too, their focus was too much on Harry, Ron and Hermione. I mean, sure they're the main characters, but reading the books, there is just so much more in the Harry Potter world than that. Neville, Kreacher, more about Dumbledore's backstory (you got to learn much more of his character in the books, in the movie he was basically just the wise mentor), more about Tom Riddle's backstory, his first meeting with Dumbledore and why he was the only wizard Riddle feared, and many other things. I get that you can't put everything from the books into the movies, but most of it was a very important part of the series and you could've showed part of it in very few screen time.
Bigs ones for me are: Marauders Map origins. Neville's parents. Fred & George's Quidditch World Cup bet that explains how they opened their store. The Quidditch World Cup! 3rd task of the Triwizard Tournament No Peeves. Battle of the Astronomy Tower. Seeing the known Death Eaters lose in duels with our good guys. Lupin's werewolf backstory and Whomping Willow origins. Meeting between the Muggle Prime Minister & Minster of Magic. Apparation lessons The full battle of the Department of Mysteries More of Voldemort's memories. OWLs test and results Dumbledore's funeral! Harry's visit to Ravenclaw common room searching for the diadem. Grey Lady backstory. Harry repairs his wand.
You forgot to mention that unlike the movies, Ginny had a personality, a fun one at that in the Books.
Yeah I love the book Ginny she’s awesome but in the movies I don’t hate her but I don’t love her or even like her
To be fair Ginny is pretty two-dimensional in the books. But the movies definitely killed her character completely
YES I love book Ginny, she actually blossomed and wasn't awkward, she was also quite like Fred and George, remember "HE GOT OFF, HE GOT OFF" and then Molly telling them to tune it down and they just continue with "he got off, he got off" in a whisper. My friends that only saw the movie Ginny, didn't like her and didn't understand why Harry liked Ginny
Honestly Ginny was the best of all the Weasley siblings. She had Bills easy going trait, Charlie's affinity for quiditch and animals, Percy's drive, Fred and George's humor, Ron's loyalty
The handling of Ginny in the movies is probably what makes it so easy for people who write fanfic to turn her evil (or at least, selfish and possessive of Harry) and easier still to pair Harry with Hermione (whose on-screen chemistry makes it easy to believe they could've been married at the end). Not that she was given a ton of the book equivalent of screen-time either, but I think the last time she had a personality in the movies was in Chamber of Secrets. If it wasn't for the fact that Ginny ends up being important to Harry by the end of the series, thus making it difficult to recast the part without extenuating circumstances being involved, I would have been okay with someone other than Bonnie Wright playing Ginny in the movies. That doesn't guarantee that the character would have been more interesting with a different actress, but Bonnie Wright somehow got worse as an actress as the series went on.
'There's no need to call me "sir", Professor.'
Larreh stylinshon Was that from the ministry break in?
Larreh stylinshon nope. it was from a dialog between harry and snape
Larreh stylinshon But it was in the movies wasn't it?
Larreh stylinshon I was really upset when I watched the movie and that wasn't in it. that was the best part
Yeah I'm pretty cool
Pretty sure Hermione never intended to mobilise the elves into a combat squad. She was more concerned about their welfare than warfare.
OK, so Iam not the only one who could swear that he said warfare. SPEW (Special Perform Elf Warfare)?
He did, but the W in SPEW is indeed welfare.
Creature did a pretty good job of mobilizing the Hogwarts house elves at the end of the 7th book. I would have loved to have seen that in the movie.
Kreature needed his scene of redemption. It was so touching in the books to see him warming to Harry (thanks to Hermione), cleaning the house and cooking nice meals for them. There are only three absences from the films that I felt really should have been included: SPEW, Hokey and Hepzibah Smith, and Peeves.
Kreacher*
Rita Skeeter as a beetle! It explains how she knew everything in The Goblet of Fire
I bet you money there's a design for her beetle form floating around that was never used or shown to the public
How about Ginny's entire personality
The Potion task in Philosopher's Stone
The background of Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot & Prongs
The career's appointment with McGonagall, Harry & Umbridge
"Have a biscuit Potter"
The full King's Cross exchange between Harry & Dumbledore
those aren't really as important as these things, but I am sad "have a biscuit potter" wasn't in the film... that was such a good scene
awkward manc the carees appointment was fucking hilarious
Elman Abbasov may I offer you a cough drop Dolores?
@Nathan Creek
I would argue that the potion's task and the background of Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs were extremely important.
The former is where Hermione really shines. I sort of hate that her moment was with the Devil's Snare in the movie. It just wasn't as good. The potions task really shows us exactly who Hermione is and what her strengths really are. It should have been there.
The latter really explains Harry's patronus. Granted, if you already read the books, it was easy enough to remember and thus infer, but it's never really explained in detail in the movies at all, and I know people who saw the movies but never read the books who are still confused about Harry's patronus, or any of them. It really should have been in the movie...
"Have a biscuit, Potter" had to be my favorite part of that book. The dialogue would've fit perfectly with the films' style of humor
HARRY NEVER FIXED HIS ORGINAL WAND WITH THE ELDER WAND!!!!
mysterium vitae I KNOW WTF WHY DID YOU SNAP IT YOU IDIOT NOW YOUVE GOT TO BUY A NEW WAND AND YOU HAVE TO JUST GET RID OF THE WAND THAT IS LITERALLY THE ONLY REASON YOU LIVED BEYOND THE AGE OF 14
And he can not try or buy a wand with phoenix feather in it because Fawkes is gone.
mysterium vitae He did in the books read guys
Luca Stigler I know I've read them, that's why I'm saying it here
Major Profit exactly
I'm really sad they cut the dudley/harry goodbye, it was such a touching moment and the actor did a really good job with it. Highly recommend you watch the deleted scene if you havent
they also cut another important scene between petunia and harry that was also extremely important for their redemption and harry's story arc.
Nathan Creek "You didnt only lose your mother that night Harry...I list a sister"
So close Mirko.
Also Petunia telling Harry "you didn't just lose a mother that night at Godric's Hollow, you know? I lost a sister".
remember in the first movie dudley said "im not harry." hes actors name is Harry Melling
I'm still not over how they cut harry and Ginny's first kiss. That was the best part because it showed the beginning of their love story. Also when they broke up it was because they didn't want to hurt each other. Harry and Ginny do not have as much chemistry as they did in the books.
so, just slightly more than Kristen Stewart?
I only saw the movies, and i hate their romance. Ginny comes off as a rabid fangirl & while i dont like the harmione ship, it's still better than Ginny x Harry...
how about that time when McGonagall survived 4 stunning spells in her chest?? that was realy amazing
Yeeessssss!!!!
Yeah, They were nothing but COWARDS they knew they couldn't have taken her in daylight and let's be real the only reason they got her, was because she was distracted. It really isn't shown how everyone loved Her, even the slytherins were scared and or mad
And how they didn’t do mcgonagall inspection. That was my favourite part of the fifth book XD
A tough old broad I love her 😤😤😤
I'm still salty about how they portrayed voldemorts death in the films. It ties in with them leaving out Tom Riddles family history. It takes away the humanity of Tom Riddle aka Voldemort and misses a huge opportunity of one of the MAJOR themes in the books, that being ''everyone has light and dark in them, it's the path you choose that determinds your character and who you are as a person''. That overdramatic death raises voldemort to be this inhumane being as opposed a person who choose to dark over light, and that anyone could've been capable of those things giving the right mix of circumstances and character.
Indeed. Rowling used the phrase "mundane finality" to describe the moment of Voldemort's death ("Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing"). That point was entirely missed in the film. Nor is it clear, in the film, that he was killed by his own curse.
N H well I for one think his death in the books was kinda anticlimactic. I mean this is the moment the series has been building up to and it's just it kinda like oh his spell rebounded and killed him. The movie one was way more dramatic which I liked and for the inhuman thing they gave Bellatrix a weird death as well. I don't think Bella even had a horcrux so her soul was intact. Anyways that's just my opinion.
PuppyLover3906 _ i personally think it was meant to be anticlimactic. as people have said above, a big theme of the series was the light and dark in everyone and in the books there was so much history with riddle's family and him before he was The Dark Lord™. his death was supposed to be a human death. it was supposed to be nothing special. it was supposed to show that no matter how powerful you are or how many times you split your soul, you're just as human as everyone else. the movie completely missed that. just my thoughts (:
faith foster that's a very good point :)
In connection with this, I missed that in the books, the whole school witnessed the death of Voldemort but in the movie NO ONE is there when Harry destroys him. I mean, it's a historic moment yet no one is there to see it.
Also the bit about Neville possibly being the child referenced in the prophecy.
Angelica Schuyler The whole thing about it being Harry who was the chosen one because Voldemort saw Harry as being the same as him.
David Abercrombie but Neville also fulfilled the requirements but Voldemort chose harry
Charles Patsch Voldemort's choice made Harry the chosen one so he is the chosen one, Neville was just another option, nothing more nothing less. Besides, in the end both ended up being important to the prophecy.
He definitely did not expect Neville to pull out the Sword of Gryffindor and destroy his horcux Nagini with it.
You missed:
.Kreacher
.Phineas Nigellus
.Gilderoy Lockhart in St Mungo's
.80% of the order of the phoenix
.Dobby in most of the books
.The books awesome opening to the half blood prince
.Dumbledores funeral
.Firenze
.All the other centaurs in the forest
more quidditch, so much more quidditch
Oh yeah, and the epic quiddicth games in books five and six
I would have loved to see the Weasleys destroy Harry's aunt and uncle's livingroom 😆
I personally prefer the ending to HBP in the movie. But the funeral scene would not have been amiss
Kreacher is in the movies
Marauders back story (literally cut from two chapters to two lines of dialogue), Ludo Bagman, Triwizard money from Harry to Fred and George (where else did they get the money to start up a joke shop??) and Rita Skeeter is a beetle animagus scenario are all other important things missed out of the films, regrettably some are still more important than others but all the same these are the main other things that the movies missed out that come to mind for me
The Cookie Jar true
everyone finding out Hagrid was half giant was a big one for me. They didn't even bother to mention it properly until Grawp showed up, so glossed over
I know I'm just happy I read first and then watched the movie, because There was so much more in the books, especially in Harry Potter and The Philosopher's stone, Hermione and the boys' relationship is quite packed in
How about the fact that he started up the Triwizard Tournament and was a fifth judge.
THEY ALSO GLIDED OVER THE QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP
I really missed two things 1 the weasleys pick harry up from privet drive at beginning of goblet of fire. 2 Dumbledore picking harry up at beginning of half blood prince both would have been absolutely hilarious
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m sure dumbledore picks up Harry on the movie adaptation.
@@slickiej9716 in the book , Dumbledore comes to privet drive and there was little chat about Sirius Will and about Sirius leaving everything to Harry and Harry becomes kreachers master
Lmao, I would have LOVED to see the Weasleys picking Harry up in the beginning of Goblet of Fire! Can you imagen Arthur, Fred, George and Ron bursting from the fireplace!! 😂😂
YESSS I WANNA SEE THE DRINKS BEATING THEM OVER THE HEAD 😂😂😂
The money that Harry won from the tri-wizard tournament and gave to Fred and George so they could start their shop! That always annoyed me it wasn't in the film as it was something so simple! That, and sirius' mirror that (no pun intended), magically appeared when the plot required it.
Clair Raftery "Krum catches the snitch but Ireland wins the cup" was one of the best parts!
Kamna Joshi totally agree!! We need a whole film just for the quidditch match! I was sad to see that wasn't in there
YES the triwizard money bit would have been so easy to put in and wouldn't have made the movie too much longer either
The Secret Weasley joke shop in the toilets and the centaur becoming the astronomy teacher.
I think Firenze was the Divination teacher, taking over for Trelawney until she returned. I really wish they'd included him more in the movies, because the centaurs were really interesting.
Firenze continued on teaching even after Trelawney returned because he was banned from the forest for working for a human. So Dumbledore kept him as a teacher to keep him safe.
Plus his version of Divination is very different from Trelawney's
Yeah that was the reason Hagrid's friends could not tresspass the centaurs property
Dylan Humphrey the astronomy teacher! Yes! I wish they had that in the films
It always, always bothered me that the films never made it clear that James, Remus, Sirius and Peter were the creators of the Maurauder's Map. There's an entire chapter of exposition and backstory in Prisoner of Azkaban at the Shrieking Shack that gets jettisoned/reduced to a 5-minute film scene all about catching Peter Pettigrew; I realize exposition can be boring, but it was all really important for the future books/movies and the flashbacks would have given a better pace to a scene that's too quickly rushed through in an otherwise good movie.
Serena Bramble The third movie was the point at which the cast and crew stopped caring. The fifth movie is so fucking abridged. The fourth didn't do too bad. Certain individual moments could have been better, but the drama was done justice. The third movie is a joke. The sixth movie needed to cover more content as well. The 7th and 8th just needed to stick to the script and include everything. Yet, despite being separated into two full length movies, they still managed to miss things and rewrite others. Ffs, that's grade a bullshit.
Serena Bramble not to mention that they made themselves into animagi.
Serena Bramble
"It's bothered you after all these years?"
"Always"
The 3rd movie is widely considered to be the best sooo....
By whom, the people with an interest in the series or by "artsy" people who watch films like alcoholics down any alcohol you give them?
Surely Lily's letter to Sirius SHOULD HAVE been included!!
Yes! That was an emotional moment for me... Harry reading his late mum's letter about him to Sirius.
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Ron and Hermione became prefects!!!!!!!!!!
i think in the movies Ron becomes a Prefect (coz thats how he gets his broom) but Hermione doesnt
Fluff Whiskers
Wich is dumb because, what Gryffindor girl of their year is more suited than Hermione to be a prefect?
that is not really a huge deal to be honest
And pansy and draco
lord of the rings fan not a big deal? NOT A BIG DEAL!?!? BEING A PREFECT IS A HUGE DEAL!!!! Sorry Harry Potter argument voice. Here let us try this again: being a prefect is a huge deal because is a big honour to all wizards/ and or witches. It gives you a bigger responsibility therefore would have been a huge deal for Hermione. Personally I think that Hermione would have made a excellent prefect.
Dobby's role in all the Harry Potter books that show his loyalty and friendship which made his death heartbreaking.
I agree with you on Harry's last duel with Lord Voldemort. I was looking forward to see Harry, telling the truth in front of everyone, clearing Snape's name, and asking Tom to stop his madness. Instead, we have a short fight WITHOUT ANY WITNESSES. I found it so important that Harry defeated the darkest wizard of his time in front of everybody.
iio-chan Moon
YESSSS!!! I keep commenting on this in all similar videos, LOL. That is the most unsatisfying thing in the movie!!! 😬😬😬😬😬 I felt sooo disappointed when I watched it.........so I only watch the last movie twice and didn't buy the DVD.
I watched the others at least twenty times each...especially the first, second, and fourth movie...I rewatch it soo many times until the DVDs broken.
tbh, the whole battle unwrap didn't really allow this to happen. They weren't in the great hall as in the books and Death Eaters are a bit smarter in the films than in the books, so a bunch of people actually just looking at the final battle with the evilest guy around wound't make much sense, as in, why tf they didn't help Harry
Nik
Because they all know that it was Harry, and only Harry alone should face Voldemort. All the people already knew about the prophecy. Both sides believe their leader would definitely win the battle, so nobody try to interrupt anything...the only person who would probably interrupt, Bellatrix, was dead. Pardon my sentences, I hope you get the essence of what I mean...
I actually preferred the movie version of the final duel.
In the book, there is a lot of talking at first, and then Harry and Voldemort cast Expelliarmus and Avada Kedavra, and the fight is over. So much buildup for the final duel, and only 2 spells are cast.
In the movie, there is a lot of fighting between Harry and Voldemort. Yes, it would have been nice if there were many witnesses, but I still loved that was a lot more spell casting than just "Avada Kedavra!" "Expelliarmus!"
Nik remember, there was a huge charm that was placed around both and there's a theory maybe at some points they were speaking parsletongue, but meh there was a charm so yeah
It's such a shame that the entire final dialogue between Harry and Tom was cut out...
That and the fact that the final battle/Voldemort's death all occurred in the great hall & not outside.
Yeah they royally fucked up the final battle between harry and mouldy voldy, opting for more "pointing wands at each other with red and green" action instead.
Paddy Hugill i know and jumping out the bloody window what did you do that for harry you idiot just because voldemort can fly doesnt mean you can and nothing is stopping him from just dropping you i know that for any losers who didn't read the book the two of then walking in a circle and talking might be boring but they should have read the books shouldn't they i for on would have loved if it ended the way it did in the book
Yes I loved that last in the book because he absolutely schooled Voldymort.
Yes, that irked me also. Harry and Voldemort were surrounded by people so they could hear and learn. Not like the movie when it was just the 2 of 'em.
Gotta admit, the entire subplot with Remus' and Tonks' relationship and Teddy, it still brings tears to my eyes. Remus and Tonks dying at the end of the book is the saddest and most emotional part in the entire series for me.
Ikr, it just breaks my heart how Harry has to watch what happened to him as a baby happen to teddy and you know he’s gonna do everything in his power to make sure teddy grows up happy because he didn’t
All of Harry's sass was lost in the movies.
Googleplier I love Sassy Harry from the books
Yes! I really wish he was as sassy in the movies as he is in the books 😂 💃
yep, that's a general limitation of film adaptations of books, the narrative is lost and in this case, harry's sass and internal struggles/dialogues are mostly missing in the movies
Googleplier Yeah like when he roasts Draco's mom in the HBP
I've literally screenshotted all of harry's sass from the books on my phone that I can read them whenever I want
What about Neville breaking out of a binding curse put on him by voldemort, pulling the sword of Gryffindor out of the sorting hat, and cutting off naginis head? may I add that Neville was oN FIRE WHEN HE DID THIS?? where was that in the movie???
cheyenne fernley and where were all the people crying and shouting abuse at the death eaters when harry died???? in the movie its like lol he died what are we gonna do now
cheyenne fernley When he said I'M AWESOMEEEEEEEE
Jacinta Smith you're right lol
IKR!
"The Marauders" should be on this list. POA didn't elaborate on the friendship of James, Remus, Sirius and Peter, made no mention of how they were all animagi that kept Remus company during his transformations, how they made the map, and all that. it just lessens the introduction of Remus and Sirius, lessens Peter's continuous betrayal in GoF and lessens Siruis' and Remus' death.
And on top of that, no one who JUSt watched the movies really knows how Sirius and Remus know about the map or the relevance of Harry's patronus, Prongs.
Sirius's mirror. The goddamn mirror in the fifth movie harry never gets it and suddenly in movie seven he just has this magical chunk of mirror that lets him see some guys eyeball on occasion and dobby can find him when he has it and that old dude who turns out to be old dumbles's brother has a mirror just like it GUYS WTF I THOUGHT JK READ ALL THE MOVIE SCRIPTS TO MAKE SURE THEY DIDNT CONTRADICT THE FUTURE MOVIES WHAT HAPPENED
the ravenclaw tower scene being cut is the biggest crime the movies made.
thank you!!! I felt like i missed something like.. "wait... was there a scene where he got the mirror?" No? Oh.. ok then
Especially when Harry crucio'd the Death Eater when he spat at McGonagall
Well, they didn't contradict. Just abbreviated what happened in the books. Does make me wonder though: What people who haven't read the books think of the movies?
+Saiman No To answer your question, I personally loved all of the movies, though I feel like that opinion might change a little if I read the books
You forgot Ron's owl Pidwigeon
xNailgunx *piGwidgeon
Pigeon +widg
Pig*
xNailgunx Pigwidgeon is my favorite character cut from the movies. I know he's just an owl but the way he's always so exited about delivering letters is so adorable.
We don't need a Pig in the movie :P
(In the Dutch version of the books that owl is called "Koekeroekus" which Ron abbreviates to "Koe", which means "Cow" in Dutch. I guess "Varken" (Pig) was not a good name to pronounce).
How about Fred's death we just see his body not how he died and how he was attacked with precy and his last words
Jacob Buczak it was so short because the actor who played George couldn't keep redoing the scene and watching his brother die, so they had to shorten it.
I would have really liked to see Fred's death on screen. It would have been sad, but awesome at the same time. Seeing a death eater get turned into a sea urchin, and seeing an explosion throwing Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, Percy, etc. across the school would have been so cool.
"I feel holy" 🤣
"I feel holy" 🤣
I'm fairly sure he said Warfare instead of Welfare
Bertie Wooles yeah i noticed that i was like adam. Adam
Bertie Wooles he did 😂
Bertie Wooles I do believe he did. I rewatched that scene like seven times 😂
the war thirsty house elves were another part left out
Bertie Wooles yep. Totally
Movies cut out most of Lupin and Tonks' relationship (particularly the stuff in Deathly Hallows), most notably him angsting about whether he passed on his condition to his son when he finds out Tonks is pregnant, leading to him walking out on Tonks and trying to convince Harry to let him help with the Horcrux hunting, leading to Harry yelling at Lupin and finally hammering it into his thick skull that he needs to go back to look after his family, leading to Lupin pulling himself together and going back to his wife and then having this really adorable scene right after Teddy's born when he goes rushing into Shell Cottage to gush and brag about his son and makes Harry Teddy's godfather, effectively healing the rift that had formed between him and Harry due to Lupin's earlier idiocy, and then later Lupin telling Tonks to stay behind with Teddy when he sets out for the Battle of Hogwarts (because he very much wants to take care of his family at this point and is dead-on determined to keep them safe), which of course Tonks ignores because she's Tonks and so she leaves their son with her mother and sets out to fight, and she spends a good portion of said battle trying to locate her husband and then they die and it is so sad because Lupin was actually happy for the first time since James died and he had a family and things were looking up for him and then he was killed and all of that was taken away…
(Ahem)… Sorry about that. I was just really upset that they cut out all of that. I love the way that Lupin and Tonks develop throughout Deathly Hallows and was bummed out that the movies didn't show any of it… bad enough they cut out Teddy, they had to cut out EVERYTHING about the Lupins…
Personally I'm kind of glad a lot of it got cut because the name Tonks annoys the hell out of me. It made the last couple books difficult for me to read because I had to see that name so much. No idea why it's so annoying, but ugh. Virtually any other name would've been better. And that's coming from someone who LOATHES her given first name with every fiber of her being, and is in the process of getting it legally changed. I understand why she goes by something else, but, I don't understand why she had to choose something that's so awkward to say, and sounds like a description for a metal pipe falling down a brick well.
It will always bother me Harry didn't fix his wand with the Elder wand.
This tbh. I thought the snapping of the wand was actually a good change from the books... if he still repaired his phoenix wand first. Now of course, there is no way for his wand to be repaired.
Same it is such a simple part that they left out it always annoys me.
yap but i think the wand cant be destroyed like that ,,that also good/stupid scene ,,,it is given by death himself it has better meaning to hide it but also nto so good what if someone disarm harry it is not death requered to change owner so,,both way explinations are missing
So it means he has no wand? You're an idiot, Harry!
Yeah, and if Invisible Cloak couldn't be summond by "accio", you couldn't just snap the Elder Wand, right?! I hate that ending in the DHpart2 ! (before epilogue and also the epilogue, but that's off topic)
what about the end of "Order of the Phoenix " when Sir Nicholas consoles Harry after the death of Sirius
I've always been disappointed that they didn't show what a hilarious character Lee Jordan is. Minor, but it would have been nice to have him actually commentate a bit under McGonnagals watchful eye. Really, they didn't show quiditch matches as much as I would like
Martha Fernandez I know, right?
Lee was in the first two films commentating at the Quidditch matches (I think the actor's name was Luke Knight, or something similar) but he had no humor about it like in the books and he was never seen again.
Hans Ollo Luke Youngblood, actually.
Martha Fernandez ugr I know, his comments were the gem of the books
I'm currently rereading the books and I just love his commentary in the Quidditch Match against Slytherin in The Prisoner of Azkaban. The scene where he's swearing at the Slytherin's and McGonagall is equally upset as him is so hilarious.
What about the entire freakin' prophecy?! We're never given the full text of it, its connections to Trelawney and Neville are never mentioned, nor are we given a proper explanation of it in general. All the movies tell us is that it's the reason Voldemort tried to kill Harry as a baby and that one is fated to destroy the other. Boiling down such an important and complex plot point like that did it no justice at all!
The entire Order of the Phoenix movie made no sense in the first place. You can't picture a book with 1000 pages into a few hour film.
Worst part of them negating the Prophecy for 80% is that it IS the goddamn prophecy that kickstarted the whole story. the Prophecy is the reason why Voldemort went after Harry in the first place. Voldemort not knowing the complete prophecy . let him to do exactly what the prophecy had foretold.. Basicly without that Prophecy the entire story spread out over 7 books and 8 movies wouldn't have happened
The locket in the House of Black in Book 5. Since it was the first Horcrux, it makes the rest of that arc come out of nowhere without much of a leg to stand on.
Paul Kapeleris Yeah and in book six when he hides to potions book and the diadem is there too. In the movie he just makes out with Ginny and she hides it. Thanks Ginny
Which would you rather though in harry's place, have saving the entire wizarding world be a little easier or make out with ginny
Do you mean book Ginny who is described as the hottest thing since the Big Bang, or movie Ginny who has a face only a mother could produce?
Take your pick
"who has a face only a mother could produce" Surely that should be true for literally everyone?
I really was okay with living without SPEW but it was an important part of Hermione's character development from a brilliant but awkward school girl into an equally brilliant but determined woman of justice.
Felix Rivera and also, I can’t believe they didn’t include Winky, I mean, that’s a whole character the left out!
to be fair Dobby didn't get much better treatment either. He had a major role in Chamber of Secrets but in the books he's a pretty good presence in the next several books, notably helping Harry with the triwizard's second task in book 4 and telling Harry about the room of requirement in book 5. Then saving everyone from Malfoy manor in book 7 and meeting his untimely death at the hands of Belatrix.
In the movies though. he plays his roll in Chamber of Secrets as we'd expect then we don't hear from him again until he shows in Malfoy Manor and dies in Deathly Hallows Part 1. Kinda undercuts the emotional impact of his death in my opinion especially since it was the note they ended the movie on. The death of a character we'd hadn't seen or heard from for 5 movies.
Wes Stacey yes I agree as in the goblet of fire neville never gives Harry gilly weed dobby does
I understand they had to cut a lot out, but they could have at least added Winky and Dobby in. They're important characters
yeah instead we just got to watch puberty kick ass. Spew was a shit arc though to be honest, took forever.
WHAT ABOUT RON’S PHONE CALL
JW Fan omg yesss
My ears are happy they skipped that part, actually
Now that was hilarious 😂😂😂
Kreacher's redemption, and the fact that the MARAUDERS made the Marauder's Map. The movie glosses over it in such a way that it would take an obsessive viewer to realize that Harry's Dad, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin actually wrote the damned thing. I also thought it was important AS HELL that Weasley's Wizard Wheezes was started in Diagon Alley with Harry's Triwizard winnings. Also the backstory with the Gaunts, and Hepsibah smith... But I do know that these things take time, and that making a movie essentially means compressing the hell out of a story to fit a two hour time window.
Gerrick Greythorne
Shame, tho...Hollywood split stories like Twilight or The Hunger Games into 2 movies...but only split the last HP book to 2 movies. Each book deserves 2 or more movies...and I (and all the other big HP fans out there) will watch and buy them all thoroughly and patiently, LOL... I hope someday they will release the full uncut version of all 8 movies. I'd save my money and time to enjoy that.
I felt there were a few things missing from the fifth movie that absolutely needed to be there. One was the scene between Harry and Dumbledore at the end, where Harry starts destroying the office and Dumbledore explains many things. It wrapped up so much and brought more oomph to the relationship between Harry and Dumbledore, but it's totally missing from the movie. A shame.
I hated many changes from the book. But I actually didn't mind one less scene of Harry raging in the 5th.
Really? I wanted the outburst of Harry against Ron and Hermione at the beginning of Ootp. He might not have been right but after 4 years of bs Harry needed to get that out.
I had to laugh so hard while I was watching the movie shortly after I re-read the book. Because in the movie Fred and George apparate into the room and said that they heard him scream. But in the Movie he isn't screaming at all. That was in the Book. And this only makes sense in this context. Idk why they kept the phrases of F&G though. It just doesn't make sense when they leave Harrys outburst out lol
NotContinuum yep
Was there in a flashback in ootp but certainly no justice done to that scene in the books by the movie
Nice work, but you missed one that sticks in my craw. They left out 10 seconds of crucial dialogue. In the climactic duel between Harry and Voldemort, Voldemort ridicules Harry's confidence, saying Harry must either think he is the better Wizard or that he has the more powerful weapon. Harry, in essence, says "I think both." That is so important because it shows that Harry already knows that HE is the master of the elder wand, not Voldemort.
NoizyInSeattle He literally explains about 2 lines later that Malfoy is the master of the elder wand ye fruit
Owen Pook Malfoy *was the master of the elder wand, not anymore. It's pretty common knowledge that Harry became the master of all 3 hallows by the end.
NoizyInSeattle How bout have the movies just make the whole final duel between them like it was in the book since all of it is so different. You're focusing in on one detail when the whole thing was ruined in the movie.
I think the next HP movie should be "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore"
MegumiMary I would like the story of the original 4
Yeah I'd like to learn a bit more about them, besides the standard facts that were stated in the books.
I had to read this a few times before I understood, and then I started laughing so hard lmaoooo
They left out a hell of a lot more than 15....
They left out at least half of the scenes that book did include.
Nearer 50.... at least
My favourite part left out of the movies was an old man in the goblet of fire who wears a ladies nighty at the campsite funny as crap
Clare Doherty LOL 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂⚡️😂😂😂😂😂😂⚡️⚡️⚡️😂⚡️⚡️😂⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I like a nice breeze round my privates... favorite line!
i havent seen it yet but I was really hoping to see that #:(
His name is Archie
Clare Doherty I got them at a muggle shop! Muggles wear them!
Two words: Roonil Wazlib.
"It's my nickname."
"Your nickname?"
"What my friends call me."
"I know what a nickname is."
Rickman would have killed a scene like that, and the movies were sorely missing the Harry sass that found its way into the books.
gunghoun god that's literally the best scene in book six and its not like they couldn't have put it in because it wasn't important enough because he still cursed draco and i dont care that they were going for a darker tone for the sixth movie and didnt want to toss in some random humour because that random humor is one of the funniest things ive ever read
In fact, the random humour makes the atmosphere of darkness more poignant in the books.
Side Scroller "That's how people call me"
Yeah, I wish they'd put that in!
How about the redemption of Kreacher? That is one of my favourite moments in deathly hallows. It's a great scene and I was very sad to find it wasn't in the film
Tom Crazyminer I agree
That saucepan XD
Tom Crazyminer yes!!
Dumbledore's funeral would have been nice to see.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels that way! I was actually really upset when it wasn't in the films. The beautifully described scene actually brought tears to my eyes while reading the books, and I was hoping to have a similar experience in the theater. But, sadly, he just dies, they momentarily mourn, and then move on. Shame.
In the first Movie Snape's logic problem with the potions wasn't there so Snape wasn't even one of the professors protecting the stone in the Movie
in the 3rd Movie Harry didnt get the firebolt till the end of the of the year so idk how he would have played quidditch with no broom
And in the last one Harry never repaired his Wand
Avi Miller Harry uses the elder wand to repair his wand. I’m not sure if that’s in the movie I think it is but I cant remember
it's in the books that Harry repairs his wand and puts it back in Dubledore's grave. In the movies he snaps the elder wand in half which doesn't makes any sense because that doesn't support the theory of making sure nobody could do any harm with it ever again.
His wand actually never got broken( I think) and they cut out the last Quidditch match between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor.😭😭😭😭😭
I wish the logic one was in.
yes. avi miller I agree
the battle in the half blood prince at Hogwarts! while harry and Dumbledore are searching for the horcrux, Hogwarts is invaded by death eaters. the students (Dumbledore's Army), all take a little luck potion and fight them off until, the order of the Phoenix comes to their aid. it is there that Charlie gets scratched by Greyback, leading him to enjoy raw meat in the next book.
Bill, not Charlie. Charlie was Gryffindor's old Seeker and now works with dragons in Romania; he was left out of the fourth movie (like everything was) when he brings the dragons to the Triwizard Tournament. Bill is lanky like Ron and Percy and gets his face bitten by Fenrir Greyback. I HATE the movies, with the exception of the first two,
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I also hate the movies with the exception of the first two.
@@hennakhan4587 I have since come to love the Prisoner of Azkaban, as well, but the rest of the films are pretty bad.
@@hanburgundy4317 Can't You See That It's Impossible To Fit 800 Pages Of A Book Into 1 Movie You Idiot 😂
@@Nathan-dg7rh Can't you see that it's insane to capitalize every word?
Of course they can't include every line of dialogue or every one of Harry's questions in his mind, but it's really not that difficult to include the story beats of a book; film-makers just love to make changes to whatever they're adapting to "make their mark" on it. Complacent fans that don't demand good adaptations are why we can't have nice things.
for me one of the major ones (maybe not the biggest but still major) is Voldemort death. in thee books it says he dies a normal death. that was very important to the story as (among other things) it makes it clear that HE ACTUALLY DIED THIS TIME!!
Robyn Mcbrayer
It is MY biggest disappointment with the last movie. 😬😬😬
Turning Voldy to confetti without witness, hah!!! What a joke! I was hoping to see his follower took his dead body away like dogs with its tail between its legs. No cheering whatsoever...no satisfaction in the end. Terrible way to end such a spectacular series.
Dobby played a much bigger role in the books than he did in the movies
Charlie Weasley actually appeared in Goblet of Fire, in which he was training the dragons that were used in the Triwizard Tournament.
Kyle Majerczyk yeah i noticed that harry does meet him before book 7
Kyle Majerczyk I was going to say the same thing but I knew someone else had to of caught that too.
He also attends the Quidditch World Cup with the rest as well and is the person who they send Norbert, Hagrid's baby dragon.
Kyle Majerczyk I was so upset that they cut him out of the movies
skizzit *Norberta ;)
The gold mist in the maze didn't turn everything inside out, it turned the world upside down...and it was one of the things I was looking forward to seeing the most from that book. :(
They must be getting confused with the mist that turns everyone inside out from that Simpsons Halloween episode
one thing I do love about the films though, is the story of the deathly hallows animation.That was cool.
I wish they had included all of the pensieve memory backstories about Tom Riddle/Voldemort. I found those to be fascinating in Half Blood Prince.
jenny villarreal instead they make him sense them. and another thing was Voldemort reeling when the horcrux was destroyed. it DOESNT WORK THAT WAY. THEYRE DEAD BITS OF SOUL CUT OFF FROM HIM THAT ONLY EXIST ATTACHED TO SOMETHING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
same
Instead they focused on slughorn Harry Tom himself briefly and teenage romance drama
How about 'Weasley Is Our King' in Half-Blood Prince?
Oh yeah, and that door opening knife Sirius gave Harry!
Elizabeth Waugh But I'm pretty sure that in the movies, instead of that, they do the whole Ron-can-do-this-he-just-needs-to-think-he's-lucky-enough fiasco. I can't remember if they did that in the books, I'm re-reading them right now. Also, they forgot the whole brain killing Ron, Ginny breaking her ankle, I'm pretty sure mcgonagall doesn't go to st my god for being hit with stupefy like 5 times, and the knife.
MinosaurChicken Isn'tASpy The book did have Harry pretending to slip Ron the Felix potion, only it was either Hermione or Ginny that caught him at it, not Luna. I agree, though, that they left way too much out of the fight at the Ministry.
It was in order of the Phoenix I just got past that part for the 9000 time I'm rereading the series
MaybeAmazing Lizzie ORDER OF DA PHEONIX!!!! I'm reading it right now...
What about Harry's talk with nearly headless nick after sirius's death.
magicalmrwest yea, that was really important. It proved that we would never see Sirius again...
Until we did in the deathly hallows...
Oh well...
In the Order of the phoenix Sirius house scene left so much out I was furious. I had to explain the whole set up to my children.
Or to put it short you have to read the books to understand the movies
so true
that's sooo true😣😣😣😣
Yep, I have one friend that didn't read the books and she didn't like it, but we me and my other friends, forced the books to her and she now understands
The first couple movies you didn't really need to, but past that you reeeeally did. That was a bad move on their part.
Harry Potter would have made a better series than a movie.
The movies are so insanely rushed, cutting so much of the actual story out. I think it's been proven by game of thrones that the series approach is just better for these in depth novels.
TV series would have been so much better! I've never even thought about that!!
True. Can't agree more. I hope they make a series now
I hope the redo them as a series someday!
The movie series was great up to the 3rd one. The GOF and onwards cut out too much important detail
I'd say you haven't really watched a whole lot of the series I'm talking about, Vikings has better production values than the Harry Potter films.
For reference Harry Potter 1 (sorc/philo stone) was a $130 million budget film.
Game of Thrones budget is about $100 million for a season.
Vikings budget is about $40 million for it's first season.
Considering that Game of Thrones has reportedly over 1 billion annual income, for what is essentially less startup capital, steady and stable returns, and less need for hype generation as the audience never hits the low spot between movies, basically you can go from selling the subscriptions to HBO/Netflix to making box sets as soon as the season is completed to the hype material for season 2, yadda yadda.
So money wise, no, feature length movies make less and less sense as time goes on. A longer running series is not only cheaper to produce due to having long term contracts (paying somebody a yearly salary with what is essentially job security is typically favored over large payout contracts). It can generate more revenue, especially if you make deals with theaters to still have premier showings of episodes, you can do that along side the subscription service releases, and release hard copies and merchandies over a longer period of time so making money is better. Lastly, for the financials, it's stable. Since a lot of money comes from subscriptions to the sites, subscriptions tending to be a guaranteed sale, companies can have a ball park for how much they know they will make back, essentially, without even trying.
It would have similar success to the Harry Potter films, which, believe it or not, were considered flops (as in failures) in the opening weekend box office. Not making the money you spent on the film on opening weekend caused Harry Potter's second film to have an even lower budget, they didn't become opening night successes until the deathly hollows. (then interestingly fantastic beats had the worst opening weekend of all the previous films). It would be easier to argue that having backing from Netflix, HBO, or Starz and making a series would have produced a larger revenue burst. Due to the way subscription works, the way the fandom was in general, selling it as a series would have sold it much better. You would have been able to include a lot of the more interesting characters that were dropped, we could have kept from dropping plot points, some things could be further explored. Essentially the biggest criticisms of the film (too fast paced, cut content, lack of character development) would be easily solved by turning the 2 hour movies into 10 x 50 min episodes.
As for "quality" this is a pretty moot point, Harry Potter 1 and 2 were easily considered to have the worst production values of all movies at the time, this was mostly due to poor direction, not because "movies look better" nor was it much of a budget constraint. As we saw Vikings had a lot of good set design and production values, and it's 10 first episodes were 40 million to produce.
How about the romance between Tonks and Lupin? They had actually pretty nice storyline in the books but in the films Tonks just mentions "My husband and I" and that is. they even dropped the pregnancy storyline in the last movies...
Juha-Matti Viitanen yea. I wish it was elaborated on, since lupin in my favorite character... 😢
I wish it was elaborated on as well
Juha-Matti Viitanen I
Ik it’s sad that they didn’t say anything about me and my husband and little teddy ☹️
Juha-Matti Viitanen John
What about Dumbledore's funeral? That part of the book was really sad for me-
I cracked up when Dobby called Ron, "Harry Potter's Wheezy"! :) :P
I totally forgot about a few of these. Like when someone told me that Peeves wasn’t in the movies a few weeks ago, I actually didn’t believe them. The same with a few other things.
I hated they cut out the whole Dudley bit. You could tell due to the dementors he saw a bit more and learned more about his cousin as well, and that simple bit was a bit deeper.
I'm so glad you added the Neville moment everyone forgets that and it's my favorite part.
One that annoys me is not having Barty Crouch Jr receive the Dementor's kiss at the end of Goblet but instead saying they're returning him to Azkaban. If he's still alive and still has all his faculties then they could just use veritaserum on him officially and he'd tell Fudge that Voldemort really is back. It's totally inexplicable why they don't do that in the films, collective memory loss perhaps? Also if he was just returned to Azkaban, where was he when Voldemort broke everyone out? Did he decide to stay?
marj angles he wouldn't know if Voldemort came back anyway cos he only comes back at the end of goblet of fire and as BCjr would have been in Azkaban at the time he wouldn't have a clue. as for the brake out I assume Voldemort didn't want to brake him out because he had failed him previously (in Voldemorts head at least) but I do agree that they should have stuck with the kiss.
haven;t seen the movie in a while but in the book Harry tells Barty crouch jr that Voldemort was back which indicated to Barty that his plan worked and that Voldemort was indeed back. Veritaserium definitely could have been used to corroborte Bary's story with Harry's. In the book they couldn't do so because Crouch lost his soul
Excuse me, but I think you have forgotten the Quidditch World Cup match between Ireland and Bulgaria, which happened in the fourth book. How could the producers exclude that scene, no not a scene, and irreplaceable and crucial moment.
Omygoodness? Did they really not have that? I didn't realise that wasn't in the movies
Charlotte Brown They had the whole setup to it, right up to Fudge starting the match, but then it cuts to events after the match.
In Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone, Harry, Ron, and hermione bring Norberta to Charlie's friends. They only put Harry and hermione in the films for that scene. That kind of put me off, the actors are perfect for the roles, but the director left out some major parts. So what if there needs to be a part two for every movie. At least it's like the books. I liked the books better than the movies. Thank you J.K Rowling for making Harry Potter.
Alisa Oden In the book, it was just Harry and Hermione. Ron was in the hospital wing, so he didn't get in trouble. Neville got caught trying to warn Harry that Draco had tattled on him. It was Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Draco who had detention with Hagrid.
In the movie, the whole scene where they got rid of Norbert was cut. Instead, Draco caught them at Hagrid's with the dragon, and they all got caught walking back to the castle. Ron got detention instead of Neville.
Yorkshire Lass it’s a she. It’s from the book. From the 4th book I think
The whole redemption of the Malfoy family and them actually staying behind after the battle was over and not running off with their tales between their leggs is the one I see as glaringly missing as with Harry.v.Voldemort and Harry.v.Dudley
Amokra Speaking of the Malfoys, I feel like there's a lot with them that the films cut out. For example, in the books Narcissa Malfoy got angry with Bellatrix for blaming the whole Ministry fiasco on Lucius and it was she that begged Snape to make the Unbreakable Vow, not Bellatrix, who was telling her she should be proud that Draco was 'chosen'.
Another thing was the book describes Lucius and Narcissa not even attempting to fight (partially due to his wand having been destroyed and her giving her wand to Draco) while they run through the battle, only worrying about finding their son.
They were still villains of course, but that to me added more complexity to their characters. But in the movie, they're just there and then they're not.
'Elfish warfare' isn't it Elfish welfare?
allydoodah no not at all
allydoodah Well in the end of the last book, all the house-elfs who works at hogwarts, (including creature) all goes up against voldemort with pots as helmets and kitchen knives and such as weapons so i guess you could call that elf warfare
It's the new call of duty
Pip Bernadotte Call of the Elves
allydoodah No, Elvish Warfare
What about degnoming the garden !!!!!!
I think PETA would have boycotted that movie if they had showed that ;-)
Major Profit peta are trash
yaaaass! denoming the garden in the original PS game was so hard! But I always found catching the pipes the attic ghoul threw was way harder. and the duel was hard too! And catching the snails Ron threw up in the bucket was hard! In fact, that entire game was hard. classic
& hermione getting all of rons lines
We all know that they will remake this entire franchise in 10-15 years TOPS.
what about how long bottom actually kills the snake , and how voldmort made him put the sorting hat on and set it on fire while it is still on longbottom's head !!!! and laughed at him then longbottom turns the tables pulling the the sword from the hat and kills the snake in a single slash!! then harry uses this moment to make his move ! how the hell did they change this badassness and why??!!!!!
Yeah. Bellatrix and/or Voldemort taunts him but Neville stands up to them so he gets the body bind spell put on him (like Hermione in the 1st year) and the sorting hat is set on fire and placed on Neville's head. Then Neville breaks free of the body bind. We later learn that he can break free because of the Elder wand not belonging to Voldemort.
Two people are first. Has science gone too far?
Jacko Gaming it's not gone far enough
SleepingStorms7 soon, 3 people will be able to be first!
Jacko Gaming I'm used to seeing like 5 people scream first at the same time.
Good god man where are you finding that second n in Grindelwald?
UM I was livid when Lily Evans wasn’t in the flashbacks with the marauders and Snape when they were teenagers I NEEDED TO SEE TEEN JAMES AND LILY
the issue with the movies is that they are filmed with the expectation that you've read the books so they think they can gloss over important details
In the Maze, the golden mist made the world turn upside down, not made things inside out, but that would be so much freakier :P
Jeff Bland lol yea
BUT HOW ABOUT HARRY'S AND GINNY'S FIRST KISS?!
"Peeves - entertaining the students" not sure those students would agree with you, man...
In the first movie when Harry, Ron and Hermione have to play the life size chess game in order to move on to the final confrontation between Harry and Professor Quirrel/Voldemort. When Ron sacrifices his knight in order to win the game, has anyone noticed when Ron falls off, there was a piece of stone/rubble that actually hits his face and does do some real damage. If you slow it down and move frame by frame, you can see it quite clearly. Rupert did well not flinching when it hit him and kept in character. I've always thought Rupert Grint was the best actor of the 3 main characters in the first and second movies. When it came to the 3rd movie, Daniel and Emma had both improved and all three became better and better with each movie.
That actor was actually a stunt double.
They really started dropping more and more balls over time. When I was a kid having my Mom read me the HP books, I stopped after the fourth one ended because 1) It demoralized the hell out of me, and 2) I was officially too old in my Mom's eyes for her to be reading me books (Jokes on her I read to her all the time). So I stopped recognizing that the mood and feelings of the books had DRASTICALLY shifted away from anything I wanted to be a part of. Shame though that might be, I thank God I held off reading them because it made watching the movies bearable. I just recently read the seven, (1-4, actually reading them by myself), and I have to say I miss my blissful ignorance.
The Books do so much more, right... that I can't even deal with the movies. Though I can be the first to admit that some of the more somber scenes are sickeningly depressing. The thing I REALLY REALLY wanted out Part 2 (DH), was actually seeing Fred's Death and hearing Professor McGonagall scream when seeing Harry's dead body. I love the way it was described in the books. Maggie Smith would have killed me if she had screamed. I am just thinking about it and I am tearing up. Instead we got ... *shudders* Ginny with an unearned scream since she is barely ever around and only so that they keep the continuity alive. What a shame.
CryingBuddha
How old are you? You're lucky to have such a mom. My mom won't touch me even when I'm sick, let alone read me an over 500 pages of books.
CryingBuddha exactly why I've still never seen past the fifth movie.. didn't even watch it until DVD and didn't pay much attention. While their casting was on point and the story should have held me through, the movies were just ruining it for me. I'm almost thirty, and will forever stand by the books; the movies..? Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith are the best parts. Where was Peeves?! 👻👻
I've always been curious: in book 2, everyone who was petrified gets restored via potion. Given ghosts can't drink, how was Nick restored?
I never thought about that...
Stefan Jentoft idk, but in the movies, I thought it was the mandrakes scream, or am I just forgetting the whole potion thing..?
I always had the impression they were sort of sprayed or something... because even a petrified person cannot swallow, correct me if I'm wrong.
Purple Gas
sorry this is so late but the ghost at the party opened his mouth and tried to float through the food which didnt work. he never ate anything.
pour it through his open neck.
I've always thought leaving out all the animagus stuff was a mistake which encompasses:
a) who the marauders wereand why the names, that they became animagus to look after Lupin during his 'time of the month', that it's ridiculously difficult to achieve and all animagus (like McGonagall) are supposed to be on a register so the government know who they are
b) most of the whys and wherefores around Pettigrew, his 'death' and his hiding
c) how Sirius escaped Azkaban
YES. I didn't even notice this until I watched the movie with my mom (who hasn't read the books) and at the end she said, "That was really cool, but I didn't get the connection between the stag and Harry's dad." And I spluttered and coughed and was about to ask her if she was paying attention and then realized...they never explained it. There is no connection made between the Marauders and the animagi. Huge glaring piece left out, there...
The meeting of the two prime ministers in the beginning of book six. Harry Potter is all about the magical world but its still interesting to see how wizards deal with muggles, because we've only seen muggles dealing with wizards (i.e. Harry and the Dursley's)
Dobby found the room of requirement
Truly Potter Dobby also gave Harry gillyweed
Careers Advice from ootp!!!
Not because it was in any way important, but because the scenes between Umbridge and Mcgonagall would have been nonstop hilarious!!
I missed the Weasleys getting Harry from the Dursleys in the fourth movie, with Arthur going all nuts about muggle stuff, Vernon rampaging and the twins dropping the "ton thongue toffees".
Quite unimportant scene, I understand they left it out, but I just loved it.
Similarly when Dumbledore turns up at the start of the Half-Blood prince. Harry forgot to tell the Dursleys he was coming and there's quite a funny scene with Dumbledore calmly/forcefully offering them a drink. In the film Harry is for some reason riding around the London Underground and chatting up a waitress, and Dumbledore unexpectedly appears.
DIDN'T HARRY HAVE A DISQUISE IN THE WEDDING SCENE HE WAS CALLED COUSIN BARRY WASN'T HE?
lol soz caps
ImAWhal e yeah he was rons cousin I forgot bout that
You didn't mention Ludo Bagman!!!!!!
gimoroemma YES!! And the whole bet with the Weasley twins!!
Kamna Joshi Right?
Gimoroemma+ he also didn't mention REGULUS FUCKING BLACK, which really annoyed me, because everyone needs to know how awesome reg is (sorry for rambling but i just really like regulus ok)
In my opinion, although I like the movies too, their focus was too much on Harry, Ron and Hermione. I mean, sure they're the main characters, but reading the books, there is just so much more in the Harry Potter world than that.
Neville, Kreacher, more about Dumbledore's backstory (you got to learn much more of his character in the books, in the movie he was basically just the wise mentor), more about Tom Riddle's backstory, his first meeting with Dumbledore and why he was the only wizard Riddle feared, and many other things. I get that you can't put everything from the books into the movies, but most of it was a very important part of the series and you could've showed part of it in very few screen time.
Bigs ones for me are:
Marauders Map origins.
Neville's parents.
Fred & George's Quidditch World Cup bet that explains how they opened their store.
The Quidditch World Cup!
3rd task of the Triwizard Tournament
No Peeves.
Battle of the Astronomy Tower.
Seeing the known Death Eaters lose in duels with our good guys.
Lupin's werewolf backstory and Whomping Willow origins.
Meeting between the Muggle Prime Minister & Minster of Magic.
Apparation lessons
The full battle of the Department of Mysteries
More of Voldemort's memories.
OWLs test and results
Dumbledore's funeral!
Harry's visit to Ravenclaw common room searching for the diadem.
Grey Lady backstory.
Harry repairs his wand.
Also, something very important you missed: "No need to call me Sir, professor."
Rik Mayall as Peeves would've been literally the best thing in the world.
It least he appears in a lot of the video games.
They didn't put ludo bagman in the movies
Rita skeeter turning into an Animagus and Hermione locking her into a jar
Better if there were a TV Series... than the movies... covering every important scene.... 7 seasons to each book