Okay, so this thread is list of all the things that were missing in the film but were in the book & the things that have been changed.
Oh and if you have read the book and seen the film you'll understand, if you haven't the two then this will spoil it for you!
What happened to the bit at the beginning with the Prime Minister and Harry at the Dursleys.
Half the memories Dumbledore showed
Hermione and Ron were mentors
The Slughorn meeting on the train
The bit were the Ministry picked up the Weasleys to go to Diagon Alley and the whole fact of the family rushing round there.
The great battle of bloomin' Hogwarts!
and Dumbledore's funeral!
When I read the book I imagined all these things to be great in a film, like the funeral was great in the book, but in the film all they bloody did is shine a light on the end of their wands.
If there were any more you had noticed please say!
P.S the film was okay... :)
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12-08-2009, 02:04 AM
jimi
Dumbledores funeral is in Deathly Hallows
The great battle of hogwarts is in Deathly Hallows
What happened to the bit at the beginning with the Prime Minister and Harry at the Dursleys. is also dealthly hallows
12-08-2009, 01:09 PM
MadFrankie2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by jimi
Dumbledores funeral is in Deathly Hallows
The great battle of hogwarts is in Deathly Hallows
What happened to the bit at the beginning with the Prime Minister and Harry at the Dursleys. is also dealthly hallows
There are two Battles, one was supposed to be in The half blood
and the two bits at the beginning were in hlf blood, read it.
12-08-2009, 01:55 PM
Nxrissa
i cant belive theyve missed all that in the film ;(
12-08-2009, 02:01 PM
Misawa
TV & Film forum friend.
12-08-2009, 02:15 PM
Rock
Dumbledores funeral is not in Deathly Hallows.
12-08-2009, 03:03 PM
today
It was a let down, like the previous one.
12-08-2009, 03:07 PM
Jarkie
When I saw this film, I was kinda annoyed that they missed most of the key parts, but hey, let's hope the last film will be a lot better.
12-08-2009, 03:13 PM
Rozi
Yeh, like you said, every time i've read the book I've imagined those bits being GREAT in the film, like there was so much they could have done with them to make them really good parts of the film!
12-08-2009, 09:55 PM
Neversoft
You forgot Luna's Quidditch commentary.
12-08-2009, 09:58 PM
GordonBanks
Hermione and Ron were prefects, you see Ron watching the corridors once.
12-08-2009, 10:19 PM
OmgitsAmanda
I hated the HBP movie. it missed out a few of my fav scenes from the books including the first battle of hogwarts. plus the scene were the burrow is on fire was totally pointless, it was never mentioned again in the whole movie - you'd think ron and ginny would be a little bit concerned that they didn't have a home anymore ;/
12-08-2009, 11:43 PM
Coldplay
It was crap.
LOTS more than that is missing.
12-08-2009, 11:55 PM
Kardan
It was a complete let down really, loads more things were missing:
All changes/differences: (Warning, VERY LONG).
1. The Other Minister
The Millennium Bridge is destroyed.
* The Millennium Bridge collapses in the beginning of the film and is shown to be caused by three flying Death Eaters.[70] The scene with Scrimgeour and the Muggle Minister is omitted.
* The first chapter, where Cornelius Fudge recaps all the bad things that have happened to the muggle Prime Minister has been omitted. It also explains how Fudge resigned as Minister of Magic and how Rufus Scrimgeour took office, as well as describing the murders, hurricanes, and bridge collapse that have been going on. However there is still a minor reference in the Daily Prophet at the beginning of the film that mentions there is a new Minister for Magic.
* Harry had a copy of Daily Prophet in the Muggle world, He reads it while in a Dining Inn located along a Surbiton station but then he left it on the table when he saw Professor Dumbledore outside. The muggle waitress at the Inn flirts with Harry and asks about the Newspaper he reads, which is not included in the book.
[edit] 2. Spinner’s End
* The Spinner's End film location is consistent with the book. The mill referred to in the text is not a watermill or windmill, but a nineteenth-century textiles factory in a northern industrial town in the UK, most likely in Lancashire or West Yorkshire. The text references the mill chimneys (now disused) and rows of nearby houses. Terraced houses as shown in the film are typical of late nineteenth century mill-workers houses in industrial Britain.
* When Narcissa and Bellatrix go to meet Snape, Bellatrix does not show the intense loathing for Snape that she does in the book and does not press him to answer questions about his allegiances. Narcissa doesn't seem as grief stricken as one might think and is not the one who suggests the unbreakable vow, however she does have tears in her eyes. Her hair is a mix of blonde and dark brown stripes, rather than being completely flaxen blonde. Snape also seems reluctant to make the vow, instead of immediately agreeing as in the book.
* Peter Pettigrew a.k.a. Wormtail's role is smaller than his in the book. In the film, he peeps out of the door to greet Narcissa and Bellatrix, and in the next shot, after showing the two into the parlor room, where Snape was waiting, Snape used his wand to slam the door shut, barring Pettigrew from the room.
[edit] 3. Will and Won't
* The scene with the Dursleys when Dumbledore comes for Harry at Privet Drive as he had pre-arranged in a letter has been omitted. Rather, Dumbledore finds Harry in a train station restaurant. The Dursleys do not appear in the movie.
* Harry is never mentioned to have inherited Gimmauld Place or Kreacher.
* House-elf Kreacher is also omitted in the entire movie.
* There's no sign of any pamphlet showing the Safety measures issued by the Ministry.
[edit] 4. Horace Slughorn
* The entire village of Budleigh Babberton is recreated from the book, including the old war memorial. There is a pub called Babberton Arms in the background.
* Dumbledore does not give Harry the heads up about Slughorn by mentioning that they are short on staff or alluding that he needs his assistance. They just go to the Muggle house where Slughorn is hiding. Harry does not speak to Slughorn of what he stands to gain by returning to Hogwarts.
* Safety measures issued by the Ministry and about the Inferi hasn't been discussed even throughout the entire film.
* In the book, the flaw in Horace Slughorn's plan to hide himself was that he forgot to cast the Dark Mark. In the film, the flaw is the blood on the ceiling, which Dumbledore identified as Dragon blood.
* In the book Horace Slughorn was said to have a big silver moustache like a walrus and was supposed to be quite large, both are changed for the movie.
[edit] 5. An Excess of Phlegm
* Dumbledore does not inform Harry, before leaving him at the Burrow, that he will be giving him private lessons and does not tell him to confide the truth about the prophecy to Ron and Hermione or to keep his invisibility cloak with him at all times.
* Instead of Dumbledore and Harry apparating to the tool shed near the Burrow, Harry finds himself standing on the swamp alone outside the Burrow.
* Discussion of Bill and Fleur's wedding arrangements, Fleur's stay at the Burrow, and even both characters, have been omitted.
* The relationship between Tonks and Lupin is implied, as they leave the party together and Tonks mentions that "the first night of the full moon cycle is always the worst." She also calls Remus sweetheart but later in the film. Tonks doesn't appeared on this chapter in the movie.
* There is no scene where the owls bring the examination results; the first reference to Harry's exam results comes when Professor McGonagall informs him (in the corridor) that he may take potions as he had exceeded expectations in this subject.
* In the film, Ginny is the first one to notice Harry, in the book Molly Weasley and Tonks see Harry first.
[edit] 6. Draco's Detour
* Diagon Alley is almost completely boarded up and vacated. The only life to be seen comes from WWW Joke Shop. The "U-No-Poo" posters are eliminated however there is a satuesque, moving sign of a typical Muggle-like magician lifting a top hat to reveal a rabbit. The sign is over a story tall.
Fred and George at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes in 1996.
Both Weasley brothers talk in tandem the entire time.
* There is no mention of how the Weasley's were able to open the store because of the winning prize of the Triwizard Tournament held two years before.
* Draco does not sneak off on his own and talk to Mr. Borgin about fixing the cabinet, but instead goes with his mum and several Death Eaters. Harry, Ron, and Hermione do not follow him under the cloak and use extendable ears. Hermione doesn’t try to trick Mr. Borgin into telling her what Draco is reserving.
* Borgin and Burkes appears with a sign without the 's' at the end of Burkes. There is a WANTED poster of Fenrir Greyback in Knockturn Alley. The trio climbs the delapidated roof of an abandoned building to witness Draco being shown one half of the pair of vanishing cabinets, instead of listening to Malfoy about wanting to fix something, from the beginning they know that the object that Draco wants is the vanishing cabinet, the cursed necklace is not mentioned nor seen. the cabinet is triangular-shaped and monolith in size. Draco enters the shop with a team of Death Eaters.
* There is no mention of fake amulets, etc. being sold, or of Mr. Weasley's promotion.
[edit] 7. The Slug Club
The Slug Club
* The Slug Club's first meeting does not take place at Slughorn's compartment in the Hogwarts Express, but at Slughorn's office in Hogwarts.
* The Slytherin end of the Hogwarts Express is split into two sides, not compartments as had been seen in previous films. It looks like booths with a table in between them. There is no door to close as had been in previous films. The compartments where Harry, Ron and Hermione sit are similar to what was in previous films, with the sliding doors.
* The Hogwarts Express is shown to have five coaches, instead of the usual four coaches as shown in the previous books.
* Students move from the train to the school without school robes, rather clad in modern clothing.
* The scene in which Draco catches Harry spying on him on the train is preformed verbatim from the book, however Luna Lovegood, not Tonks, finds Harry with her Spectrespecs, and states she can see Wrackspurts all over him.[71]
* What Draco reveals on the train is far less suggestive in the movie.
* Harry Potter is not met at the gate by Snape. Instead, Professor Flitwick stops Harry and Luna (noticeably not recognizing them) then casted a non-verbal spell to the gate for defence.
* Because Nymphadora Tonks was replaced by Luna in saving Harry from the train, The movie doesn't show Tonks' Patronus.
[edit] 8. Snape Victorious
* Snape does not take Harry to the castle; instead, Harry and Luna walk by themselves.
* Hagrid is present in the Great Hall, instead of being in the forest with Grawp.
[edit] 9. The Half-Blood Prince
* Discussion about choosing subjects and questioning of Prof. McGonagall were also not included in the movie. Simply Professor McGonagall is seen in the corridor giving class schedules to students and then chastising Harry and Ron for laughing at the newer students. She then instruct Harry to take Potions lesson and to bring Ron with him.
* There are no D.A.D.A. classes shown in the movie.
* In the movie, when Harry and Ron entered the Potions class, they're both late, but Slughorn doesn't seem to have started the lessons yet. The two informed Prof. Slughorn that they don't have the required book, so Slughorn instructs them to get a book from the cabinet inside the room. When they see that there's only one new book left, they both grab for the new version of the book, titled Advanced Potion-Making. Ron successfully got the new book while Harry is left with the older copy, formerly property of the Half-Blood Prince. Like in the novel, Harry obeyed the markings and instructions of the Half-Blood Prince instead of obeying the original instructions written in the book. This is the reason why he successfully passes the first examination and wins the Felix Felicis from Prof. Slughorn.
[edit] 10. The House of Gaunt
* The Gaunt scene is cut. Yates stated, "In the books, the memories were a very big part of JK Rowling's story. We've actually pared them down in our story, and she was very supportive of that decision. They're such an enjoyable part of reading the Half-Blood Prince. But we've kind of distilled them down to two or three memories to try to keep everything more in the moment. Flashbacks in movies are tricky things; they tend to hold up the momentum of the story you're telling."
* The movie only shows the memory in which Dumbledore goes to pick up Voldemort at the orphanage and the memory in which Voldemort asks Slughorn about the Horcruxes, which is shown twice, as in the book.
* Harry doesn't get to know that the ring that Dumbledore has is actually a heirloom from the Peverell family.
* The movie doesn't emphasize on the injury on Dumbledore's hand or Harry's insistence on asking him what caused it.
* Dumbledore only refers to Merope Gaunt as "Voldemort's mother" when Harry asked about the ring. He tells Harry that the ring belonged to Voldemort's mother, when in the book it was retrieved in the hands of his uncle Morfin.
* The ring was a black stone it the symbol of the Deathly Hallows on it, but in the movie it was uncracked as in the books.
[edit] 11. Hermione's Helping Hand
* Quidditch try outs were included in the movie.
* Hermione does use the Confundus Charm against Cormac McLaggen, however the spell is whispered into her hand in order to hide the incantation. Also, the incantation she uses is not the correct one. It is revealed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that the proper incantation is "Confundo". In the film, Hermione says "Confundus."
[edit] 12. Silver and Opals
Katie in pain while Harry, Leanne, Ron, and Hermione watch in horror
* The scene where Harry, Hermione, and Ron meet Slughorn is moved from Honeydukes to the Three Broomsticks. During the scene Slughorn mistakenly calls Ron "Wallenby". This is presumably a reference to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where Mr. Crouch repeatedly calls Percy Weatherby.
* Katie Bell is cursed by the necklace as in the book, and she is lifted into the air and silently screams with her head tilted back in a very frightening manner. As in the book, Hagrid comes and takes her to the castle, however Hagrid's role on the whole is very diminished.
* Harry doesn’t meet Tonks and Mundungus Fletcher at Hogsmeade.
[edit] 13. The Secret Riddle
* The memory of the Wool's orphanage doesn’t include talks of Tom Riddle hurting kids at the cave, which is essential to why he chose it as a Horcrux hiding place. Only a crude picture of the place is shown taped up on Riddle's bedroom wall.
[edit] 14. Felix Felicis
* In the film, at breakfast before the first Quidditch match, Luna Lovegood, not Hermione, notices Harry faking to slip Liquid Luck into Ron's drink.
* The weather on the day of the first Quidditch match is snowing and stormy in the movie, whereas in the book it is clear, a circumstance which Ron attributes to the Felix Felicis he thinks he drank.
* Zacharias Smith's Quidditch commentary is omitted.
[edit] 15. The Unbreakable Vow
* The Slughorn's christmas party is included in the movie.
* Professor Trelawney is not present, Eldred Worple, Sanguini and other guests were not introduced by Prof. Slughorn but Filch's interruption holding Draco and telling everyone his gatecrashing is included.
* There is much less conversation between Draco and Snape. Snape only mentiones to Draco that he has made an Unbreakable Vow, then Draco emphasized that he doesn't need protection.
* Harry overhears the conversation in the corridor while hiding but without the use of Invisibility Cloak.
[edit] 16. A Very Frosty Christmas
Harry Potter, Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, Arthur and Ginny Weasley while the Burrow is attacked by some Death Eaters.
* There has been an additional scene in the film which has no book equivalent. The Burrow is attacked by Death Eaters during the Christmas holidays. Bellatrix Lestrange and Fenrir Greyback are the only Death Eaters shown. Bellatrix flies unaided by a broom to the Burrow, then encircling the Burrow with a raging fire (which may be Fiendfyre has the flames are quite large and take the form of a serpent). She taunts Harry, chanting "I killed Sirius Black! I killed Sirius Black!" Harry takes off after her in rage. Ginny takes off after him, trying to stop him. Lupin, Tonks, and Arthur Weasley follow them into the grassy marsh. While the five are lost in the field, looking for the Death Eaters, the Death Eaters take off and set the Burrow aflame, burning it presumably to the ground, before leaving. There is no further mention in the book of how the home is restored or what happened to it afterward. The burrow was supposed to be protected against the death eaters, and they simply set fire to it with no effort. This causes many problems with the seventh movie.
Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange attacking the Burrow with the ring of fire.
* The discussion of Remus and Harry about Snape's character is too short, Remus Lupin didn't reveal to Harry that Snape helped him while he taught at Hogwarts as D.A.D.A. professor by brewing him a Wolfsbane potion every month.
* The movie omits the details that Fenrir Greyback is a werewolf, and also the part of Lupin mentioning that Greyback was the one who turned him into a werewolf.
* No reason is shown for Tonks’ lack of color in her hair (Hair is black not pink). When in the book is was brown and lank because she was in love with Lupin and worried for his safety amidst the werewolves and also anxious because he could not communicate with her.
* In the movie, the part where Percy Weasley arrives at the Burrow on Christmas Day with the new Minister for Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour is omitted, including the part where Scrimgeour attempts to persuade Harry to help the Ministry to tell to the Wizarding world that the Ministry's doing a wonderful job.
* The part where the characters are listening to the music of Celestina Warbeck is omitted.
* The Christmas season shown in the movie is a big contradiction on what the Chapter's title is. There are no sign of snow outside the Burrow and Ginny's nightdress seems not fit for a very frosty season.
* Also included in the Christmas at the Burrow is the several scenes of suggested romance between Harry and Ginny. In the book, Ginny clearly didn't show scenes of affection toward Harry until after they started going out.
* It is implied that Tonks and Remus are already going out, as she seems to know Remus's transformation habits and calls him, 'Darling', like most couples do.
[edit] 17. A Sluggish Memory
* The memory of the Gaunt House, Merope with the locket, Voldemort going to kill the Riddles and stealing the ring, the memory of Voldemort working at Borgin and Burkes and wanting the cup and locket, and the one when Voldemort returns to the school to ask to teach have all been omitted. Only the memory of the orphanage and of Voldemort asking about Horcruxes were kept.
* There's no mention of Tom killing the Riddle family.
* Slughorn's false memory does not show cloudiness; instead, when Riddle asks about Horcruxes his voice becomes muted and Slughorn rebukes him angrily.
[edit] 18. Birthday Surprises
* There are no Apparition lessons or examination taught by Wilkie Twycross.
* In the book, Ron and Lavender break up due to Lavender seeing Ron and Hermione coming down from the boys' dormitory (not seeing Harry due to him hiding under his invisibility cloak) and assumes they were together.
[edit] 19. Elf Tails
* The Quidditch scene and Luna's Quidditch commentary from this chapter have been cut. [71]
* The film doesn't show Harry being admit on the hospital wing.
* No appearance nor mention of Dobby working in the Kitchen at the Castle. Nor Dobby and Kreacher tracking Draco for Harry.
* In the film, Ron mutters Hermione's name while unconcious at the hospital wing with Harry, Hermione, Lavender, Ginny, Dumbledore, McGonagall, Slughorn, and Snape present, and Lavender runs off in tears.
* The visiting of Hagrid, Fred, George, Arthur & Molly Weasley for Ron while in the Hospital wing were not shown in the movie. The praising to what Harry's did using a bezoar as a antidote to the poison is not mentioned by Fred but instead by Prof. McGonagall.
[edit] 20. Lord Voldemort's Request
* The memory showing Hepzibah Smith and House-elf Hokey were not shown nor mentioned in the movie, and Voldemort applying for the D.A.D.A position is also ommited.
* Prof. Dumbledore didn't mention to Harry that this position is possibly cursed by Voldemort because he refused Voldemort's request, in that no one can retain the position for more than one year.
[edit] 21. The Unknowable Room
* There is no mention of Crabbe and Goyle using Polyjuice Potion and standing guard for Malfoy outside of the Room of Requirement.
* Draco is seen testing an apple on the vanishing cabinet. It comes back with a bite taken out. He then tests a white songbird in the cabinet, and it comes back dead. Draco's desperation and fear in this scene is palpable. It is likely that he was repeatedly testing to see if it would work correctly, and became more frightened the more the tests failed, as everything he sent through except for the black songbird came back damaged in some way. It is also possible that the white and black songbirds and their respective failure and success may be an act of symbolism or foreshadowing.
* Tonks doesn't appear inside Hogwarts looking for Prof. Dumbledore.
[edit] 22. After the Burial
* The trio did't receive a letter from Hagrid informing them that Aragog was dead. Instead Harry simply mentioned that he wants to go to Hagrid's place after drinking the Felix Felicis.
* Instead of taking a few drops of the Felix Felicis, Harry drains the entire bottle.
* Slughorn is seen stealing tentacula leaves, rather than working WITH Professor Sprout to obtain potions ingredients. It shows completely contradiction or disobedience of a Professor on what Dumbledore said later in both film and novel that Thieving is not tolerated at Hogwarts.
* Aragog's size appears smaller than described and shown in both the books and the Chamber of Secrets (film).
* Slughorn also asks Hagrid for the venom directly rather than sneaking a couple bottles.
* Harry doesn't talk about his mum and dad's death to Slughorn to the extent that he does in the book.
[edit] 23. Horcruxes
* Only the ring and diary are mentioned to be horcruxes. The ring, which is supposed to be set with a plain round stone bearing a crude carving of the Deathly Hallows, is instead set with a fluorite-cut, honey-brown gemstone. It looks like a regular ring with no special significance, so therefore, Dumbledore would never have tried it on thinking it to be the Resurrection Stone and he wouldn't have been cursed to die.
* Dumbledore does not actually have possession of Tom Riddle's Diary as it is shown in the film; Harry gave it back to Lucius at the end of Chamber of Secrets. As noted, the cup and locket story is left out, and something of Gryffindor or Ravenclaw and Nagini are not debated to be horcruxes. However, cases of swords are seen to be mounted to the balcony wall in Dumbledore's study.
* Dumbledore only mentions that the horcruxes could be anything, thus it implies that they don't know what they could be, Dumbledore never mentions that Voldemort searched for treasures and that it might be possible that his horcruxes were Valuable treasures of Hogwarts founders. Harry never gets to know why Dumbledore found out about the cave.
* Dumbledore and Harry do not have many talks about Voldemort like they did in the book. Voldemort is not explained as someone who likes to control people, who is very charming with all the teachers, who places great meaning on places where he has tortured others, and who feels a deep connection to Hogwarts because it is proof he is special and is a wizard and because it feels like his home. However, these details were focused on in the Prisoner of Azkaban movie.
[edit] 24. Sectumsempra
* The duel between Harry and Draco at the bathroom took place just after Harry questioning Katie Bell at the Great Hall regarding the cursed opal necklace, Katie looked at Draco then suddenly Harry chases him. In the book, The questioning of Harry on Katie Bell and Harry's duel with Draco took place between a couple of days and not happened in a same day. In the book, Harry tailing Draco using the Marauder's Map until he saw Draco inside the Boy's bathroom on the sixth floor. He overheard Draco crying and accompanied by Moaning Myrtle.
* In the movie, Moaning Myrtle is not included.[72]
* Harry and Draco briefly duel before Harry uses the Sectumsempra spell and Snape's countercurse is an incantation rather than a song.
* In addition, the duel is composed of simple non-verbal dueling spells. Draco is not heard trying to use the Cruciatus Curse.
* The scene where Severus Snape gives Harry detention for the Sectumsempra spell/ownership of his textbook is cut and apparently never took place.
* Ginny, not Harry, hides the textbook in the Room of Hidden Things. This will prove complicated in the final movie when Harry knows where to find the diadem horcrux based on where he hid the book (although Ginny is present during the final battle, so she could assist him).
* In the same scene, Ginny kisses Harry. Also, they find a second songbird Draco tested on the cabinet, a black one, alive and singing, but they do not know its significance. The cabinet is covered by a tapestry and they do not see what it is.
[edit] 25. The Seer Overheard
* Emma Thompson does not return as Professor Trelawney and the scene where Snape's role as double-agent is not shown or mentioned.[73][74]
* The movie doesn't show Harry questioning Dumbledore why he trusted Snape.
[edit] 26. The Cave
* Dumbledore can apparate from Hogwarts as applied in the sixth book,where at the first Apparitioning lesson the instructor says that the headmaster (Dumbledore) has disabled the magic,that prevents Apparition in the castle,for the Great Hall.So he can disable this "magic" whenever he likes and at any place in Hogwarts.
* The boat that has been used by Prof. Dumbledore and Harry to go to the island in the lake is not so small as described in the book. The potion was black rather than glowing green. The Goblet to be use to drink the potion in the basin was replaced into a shell. Dumbledore just saw it beside the basin rather than summon it using a non-verbal spell.
* Dumbledore drank all the liquid in the basin (Harry fed most of it to him) and suffered terrible pain while doing so. The spell Lumos Maxima is shown again, this time as a glowing ball of light that could be thrown rather than a more powerful version of Lumos. When Dumbledore asked for water, Harry refilled the basin using the Aguamenti spell, but the drinking shell could not hold the water. Then Harry tried to get water from the lake, but an Inferius appeared and grasped his hand, pulling him under water. Dumbledore used a great wave of fire to get rid of the Inferi and then successfully escaped with Harry after casting a spell that was only mentioned in the movie.
[edit] 27. The Lightning Struck Tower
Harry and Dumbledore apparating to the Astronomy Tower.
* Madam Rosmerta is cut from the film. Instead, Draco states he gave the necklace to Katie Bell, and also shows Dumbledore a Death Eater tattoo on his arm. Harry and Dumbledore Apparate directly to the Astronomy Tower. Harry is not frozen by Dumbledore and is on the floor below the top of the astronomy tower looking up through floorboards at the events.
* Bellatrix Lestrange joins the Death Eaters at Hogwarts.
* The scenes in which the moniker "Half-Blood Prince" are explained in detail are whittled down to a single line in which Snape states "I am the Half-Blood Prince," and walks off into the night. The meaning behind the title of the book and movie is cut. It isn't found out why Snape was the half-blood prince (He is half-blood and his mother's last name is Prince)
* Snape's argument with Dumbledore, which took place at the Forbidden Forest at night and is overheard by Hagrid
(Chapter 19)
, who disclosed to Harry in the book, is changed to taking taking place at the Astronomy Tower during the day, Harry arrives to overhear part of it and Snape leaves upon seeing Harry.
* In the film, Draco shows Dumbledore that he has been branded with the Dark Mark, whereas in the book this is only an assumption by Harry, with no solid proof.
* In the novel, it is said that Dumbledore appeared frozen in the sky. In the film Dumbledore immediately falls over the railing and down towards the ground.
[edit] 28. Flight of the Prince
* The ensuing battle between Hogwarts staff and students against Death Eaters has been significantly reduced to a rampage through Hogwarts; Bellatrix Lestrange busts out windows in the Great Hall and burns Hagrid's Hut. Hagrid and Fang are not present.
* The Battle of the Astronomy Tower was omitted from the film, along with the scene where Bill Weasley is bitten by Fenrir Greyback.
* Furthermore, the role of Bellatrix Lestrange has been greatly expanded in the film. In the book, she does not fight in the Battle of the Lightning Struck Tower or witness Dumbledore's Death. Upon witnessing it in the film, she reacts by destroying everything with sadistic glee and delight.
* In the book, Snape reacts with livid emotion when Harry calls him a coward. However in the film, although Harry hurls this same insult at Snape twice, he does not react.
[edit] 29. The Phoenix Lament
* Hagrid's Hut is set on fire by Bellatrix Lestrange, but the film doesn't show if Fang was trapped inside and also Hagrid is not present in this scene. Harry and Hagrid didn't put out the fire using the Aguamenti spell.
* Professor McGonagall joins the crowd who discovered Albus Dumbledore's body in the foot of the Astronomy Tower. She leads the Hogwarts students and staff in raising their wands to be rid of the Dark Mark and in respect for the now-deceased Headmaster.[71]
* There was also no debate or meeting at Headmaster's office between professors to discuss whether or not Dumbledore would be buried on Hogwarts grounds.
[edit] 30. The White Tomb
* The entire funeral scene is cut, and the sole scene is trio watching Fawkes flying away through the blue sky. In this scene Hermione mentions to Harry that Ron was not concerned with his interest in Ginny.[71]
* It is inferred that Ginny and Harry's relationship is still going strong, although in the book he says to her that it is not safe for them to be together.
13-08-2009, 12:18 AM
Neversoft
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
In the film, at breakfast before the first Quidditch match, Luna Lovegood, not Hermione, notices Harry faking to slip Liquid Luck into Ron's drink.
I wonder what the point in changing small scenes like that is. Did the script writers just not read the books properly or is there some deeper meaning behind it? I assume it's the former.
13-08-2009, 01:13 AM
Misawa
Honestly, how many threads on this have we had in the last week?
