Hey Madderbrad! I posted this reply very awkwardly, so I hope you didn't get it three times or something...
The Marauders scene was anticlimatic ... where was Lily? All that publicity ... and there's nothing for it.
I haven't kept up much with the publicity at all, so I wasn't expecting anything. And really, Lily being her perfect self didn't have anything to do with the plot; this scene was purely about Harry realising that his father and friends were certainly no saints, nor Snape an unjustified evil git, and it worked on that level. I think that much to do with how you receive the movie is letting go of canon, and just see if they get the general theme across. It would have been nice to see Lily, and the books allow for this kind of detail, but it wasn't necessary for the movie.
The twins' exodus should have *meant something*, other than their simply being fed up with Umbridge.
*nods* But I liked how they added the scene with the crying kid, and Fred and George deciding to step up and do something to retaliate. They stepped up against the "man", against authority misused and avenged their own. They weren't just doing it for a laugh, and it wasn't just about them. And, I guess if F and G had to set this up after Harry's vision, there would have been a pause in the story that wouldn't have fit in the movie. Now it was pretty streamlined: Crying kid, decision made, OWLS, anarchy, Harry's vision, caught in Umbridge's room, etc.
I thought a lot of the tragedy of Sirius - boastful, egotistical, Sirius, 'playing' with Bellatrix, not taking her seriously, and getting killed by a simple stunner - was lost. I also didn't find the special effect of him falling into the veil convincing.
I don't know. I didn't like the way Sirius' death was handled in the book. It seemed so frivolous and random. There was no meaning in it. I realise that this is what JKR was going for, that death can be random, but for Sirius to go out at his worst moment - getting hit by a stunner because he was too busy mocking to pay proper attention - hurt this Sirius fan for its lack of emotional impact. I wanted something more meaningful if this character had to go out. In the movie, Sirius and Harry had at least a moment, and when Sirius was hit, looked regretfully at Harry, then softly floated backwards into the void of which there is no mistaking it for the end. It looked so much more tragic than toppling through a curtain, and leaving the confused reader to reread a few times before realising that, yes, what Sirius just did was dying.
But at least they're introducing super!Ginny now, rather than repeating JKR's mistake and letting it all burst upon us in one hit in the sixth movie.
Ginny did magic in HBP? Didn't she just flip her hair, cuddle with her pet and play quidditch while Harry non-dealt with the Voldemort issue? ;)
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The Marauders scene was anticlimatic ... where was Lily? All that publicity ... and there's nothing for it.
I haven't kept up much with the publicity at all, so I wasn't expecting anything. And really, Lily being her perfect self didn't have anything to do with the plot; this scene was purely about Harry realising that his father and friends were certainly no saints, nor Snape an unjustified evil git, and it worked on that level. I think that much to do with how you receive the movie is letting go of canon, and just see if they get the general theme across. It would have been nice to see Lily, and the books allow for this kind of detail, but it wasn't necessary for the movie.
The twins' exodus should have *meant something*, other than their simply being fed up with Umbridge.
*nods* But I liked how they added the scene with the crying kid, and Fred and George deciding to step up and do something to retaliate. They stepped up against the "man", against authority misused and avenged their own. They weren't just doing it for a laugh, and it wasn't just about them. And, I guess if F and G had to set this up after Harry's vision, there would have been a pause in the story that wouldn't have fit in the movie. Now it was pretty streamlined: Crying kid, decision made, OWLS, anarchy, Harry's vision, caught in Umbridge's room, etc.
I thought a lot of the tragedy of Sirius - boastful, egotistical, Sirius, 'playing' with Bellatrix, not taking her seriously, and getting killed by a simple stunner - was lost. I also didn't find the special effect of him falling into the veil convincing.
I don't know. I didn't like the way Sirius' death was handled in the book. It seemed so frivolous and random. There was no meaning in it. I realise that this is what JKR was going for, that death can be random, but for Sirius to go out at his worst moment - getting hit by a stunner because he was too busy mocking to pay proper attention - hurt this Sirius fan for its lack of emotional impact. I wanted something more meaningful if this character had to go out. In the movie, Sirius and Harry had at least a moment, and when Sirius was hit, looked regretfully at Harry, then softly floated backwards into the void of which there is no mistaking it for the end. It looked so much more tragic than toppling through a curtain, and leaving the confused reader to reread a few times before realising that, yes, what Sirius just did was dying.
But at least they're introducing super!Ginny now, rather than repeating JKR's mistake and letting it all burst upon us in one hit in the sixth movie.
Ginny did magic in HBP? Didn't she just flip her hair, cuddle with her pet and play quidditch while Harry non-dealt with the Voldemort issue? ;)
*I babble too much*