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**Meegs** Harry Potter :-)
It's been a while since I read 6 - but I know there were differences...
Which ones annoyed you?
Mrs._F
sahm ~ toddler breastfeeder ~ cloth diaperer ~ baby wearer
sahm ~ toddler breastfeeder ~ cloth diaperer ~ baby wearer
Re: **Meegs** Harry Potter :-)
Yay! Thanks for starting this. I always reread the books right before seeing the movies... so I know that just makes these things fresher in my mind.
It always pisses me off to no end when a movie adds random things, and therefore has to cut important plot pieces. I was annoyed they didn't have anything about there being 7 horcruxes or what they might be. So Harry is just going to, what, divine that for himself in the next movie? Plus they didn't at all show how Dumbledore found the locket, or explain why the locket was significant.
The Burrow scene seemed random to me, like it didn't really fit (which it didn't really, since they made it up).
I also hated how they didn't have the Order there to fight at the end, they just blasted some Aurors out of the way, then ran unhindered off the grounds by anyone but Harry. Plus I was annoyed that they allowed Dumbledore to apperate in and out of Hogwarts. Why change that?
Also, why change the look of the pensieve and the Burrow? Not to mention that suddenly when you go it the pensieve, you aren't in the memory anymore. Dumb changes to make.
Also, I thought they made the whole Snape announcing he was the half-blood prince very anti-climatic. Its the name of the movie, and they never really spent any time on it. I wish they would have shown the funneral too... the end was very, ho-hum.
I really enjoyed Luna finding Harry, but they shouldn't have had her magic his cloke off.
I thought the Cormac stuff (with his leering at Hermione and licking his fingers) was hilarious. And young Tom was super creepy.
All in all, I did like it, but its definitelly not my favorite of the movies. Maybe it will grow on me when we get the DVD and I've had a chance to see it a few more times. It does make me even more eager to see the last two, and find out how they wrap it all up.
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Wow. That was long! Lol. I'm not a Harry Potter dweeb or anything...
What did you think?
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Some of these things I didn't notice! Like the pensieve being/working differently. That is really odd.
I did feel like a lot was missing about the horcruxes - but I couldn't remember what was revealed in 6, and what in 7.
I THOUGHT the funeral was cut! But then I thought - well, maybe that's how 7 begins, not how 6 ends.
All in all, I think they haven't made enough of the Snape issue - I say this because C hasn't read the books, but has seen all the movies, and she barely understood what was going on with him, like who's side he's on, etc.
I was also disappointed by how Ginny tied Harry's shoe and basically did nothing else in the whole movie. She's a great character, and I am totally behind Harry and Ginny being together - but she was like a nothing character in the movie. Harry and Hermione's relationship was more interesting (I love their relationship in the books too). I think there was also too much Hermione loves Ron, and not enough of a reminder that Ron loves Hermione too - even though Lavender distracts him for most of 6.
I did like what they did with going to get the horcrux - it looked exactly how I imagined - though they did not explain at all how Dumbledore knew to go there, and how he figured out what to do each step along the way.
I also liked how they unfolded the Draco stuff - in the book, I feel like it took a long time to figure out what was happening (which was good!) and I worried it would be rushed in the movie, but I thought they did a pretty good job of laying that out.
Overall, I really enjoyed it - but as usual, the book is better
sahm ~ toddler breastfeeder ~ cloth diaperer ~ baby wearer
I read that they added the Burrow scene because throughout book 6 there are constant references to attacks on wizards and wizarding families (the kids reading it in the newspaper, mostly), and they thought it would be much faster and more effective if they just showed one attack that would be important to Harry. I can't say I disagree.
They did show that there were 7 horcruxes - when Harry sees the (full/unaltered) memory of Tom Riddle's conversation, Riddle specifically asks if someone could split the soul into 7 pieces instead of 2.
I love Emma Watson and I am so looking forward to seeing her in a non-Hermione role one of these days :-)