One thing RE: Harry Potter movies vs books

Listening to the audio books now after seeing all of the movies multiple times. Just finished The Order of the Pheonix. I am enjoying them. But my word is Hermione's obsession with "elf rights" bruuuuuutal in the books. Great call omitting that from the movies, should have been omitted from the books too.

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once lupin shows up he grabs Harry and points his wand demanding to know what creature was in his office the first time Harry came to see him (in the third book) Harry responds a grindylow, but you never would have understood that unless you read the books because they don’t show that in the third movie.

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im sure there are plenty of examples, but to me, this doesnt matter at all. it still gets the point across to the viewer what lupin is doing and why he is doing it. the viewer doesn't need to know the answer in this situation.

The 6th was the worst with this. So much Voldemort backstory was left out, which was really the whole purpose of the book. You’re supposed to get a real sense of his motivations but none of that materializes. He’s just a “bad kid” and turned into a bad guy. So cheap.

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I really liked half blood prince

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You've obviously never read the books then

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the movies after azkaban were absolutely dreadful.

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Azkaban is one that pisses me off the most, it's not the worst, but it's the beginning of the bad.

All the stupid smashing of things, especially the tree garbage, everything felt like all the actors were told to rush everything to get all the scenes in. It just felt wrong.

It also gave us this abortion





Professor Umbridge was one of the best things in the post Columbus era, that actress was perfect for the role.

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Rowling seems to have gone all in for making as much money as possible, so it could happen. She is giving rights to a ton of people to make more merchandise that's for sure.

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Which is kind of a shame. She has millions upon millions. Why would you need more?

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Which is kind of a shame. She has millions upon millions. Why would you need more?

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No idea, she gave a lot of her money away to charity a number of years ago. She use to be very protective of what she allowed, but now she has just gone all frick it. There is microtransaction mobile games, a lot of those stupid arse mystery box/bag toys, pottery barn crap, origami owl pyramid scheme jewelry, and just basically any other money grab thing you can think of to put harry potter on it.

books are much better

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I was disappointed that more of the Voldemort memories from half blood prince weren’t in the movie

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That was the very worst of the movies. Really they should have written the final three films together, because most of HBP is bullshite filler that means nothing. I mean really, the Death Eaters just show up blackout drunk after Christmas Dinner to the Weasley’s House? Why wasn’t Voldemort with them?

And what was the point of the Ron and Hermione plot? Sure most of it is in the books, but JKR has time for that there. I mean really it’s as if a shitty producer skimmed the book, and then said that we had to give Ron and Hermione a major part of the plot in it. They removed most of the interesting parts of the book. Really they should have sidelined Ron and Hermione for a movie, and keep the narrative centrally focused, with 2/3 focused on Harry and Dumbledore, and the remaining 1/3 focused on Draco and Snape. It should have been the darkest of the films, and they had to remove the best scene because it completely tonally clashes with the rest of the film. That should have been the tone of the movie as a whole.

When Harry confronted Snape in the books, it was fricking epic where they’re shouting at each other over the roaring fires, and they mutually devistate each other. In the movie it was just treated as a fun fact after Alan Rickman took like 4 Ambien. Just awful.