Hey there, if you read the Harry Potter books before watching the movies as I did, you know exactly where I'm going with this article. If you're on of those people who will kill anyone who trashes the Harry Potter movies, listen up - this article is for you.
The Harry Potter movies weren't horrible, actually they were quiet good. Though, there were some things they could have done a bit more accurately, but chose not too and that was a big mistake on their parts. For those of you who didn't read the books, let me explain what you're missing out on by only watching the movies.
First off, the first book.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
What they left out:
PEEVES!!! Why did they not have Peeves the Poltergeist in ANY of the movies??? Dumbest decision ever! Who is Peeves, you ask? Well, he's probably one of the best trouble makers in all the books! He dropped water balloons, ink bottles, dungbombs, and other things at passing by students. Filch hated him too, because he always had to clean up after him - he was always making a mess, you see. What else, well, he drove Professor Umbridge up a wall and he fought in the Battle of Hogwarts - he defended the school valiantly. He would often sing - mainly mock, he would call Harry Potter - Potty.
The Potion Challenge - a.k.a. Snape's Challenge. Remember when the three heroes had to go though all those challenges to reach the Sorcerer's Stone? Well, they skipped a challenge - actually two. Hagrid's Fluffy, Sprout's Devil's Snare, Flitwick's flying keys, Dumbledore's Mirror, McGonagall's chess set, but they left out two. Snape's potion challenge and Quirrell's troll. The troll was previously knocked out, but Snape's challenge was probably one of the most interesting. It was a riddle - several potion bottles - one would grant them safe passage across a fire and the others would poison them. Luckily Harry had Heromine with him, because she figured it all out in her head.
What they changed:
The snake at the zoo is supposed to be a Boa Constrictor not a Python.
Dudley and Petunia are supposed to be blonde.
Harry first meets Draco in Diagon Alley.
Harry returns home after picking up his school supplies with Hagrid. Also the Dursleys pick up and drop off Harry every year.
Harry sees his parents and extended family in the Mirror of Erised.
Neville has detention with Harry, Draco, and Heromine - Ron wasn't there.
Harry and Heromine give Norbert (the dragon) to Charlie Weasley (actually the smuggle him out). Which lands them in detention.
Harry receives his broomstick in secret, because he's the Gryffindor secret weapon.
A few other things that wouldn't matter, to be honest the first movie was pretty close to the book.
As goes for the second.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
What they left out:
Peeves - again...
The Deathday Party - the anniversary of Nearly Headless Nick's death. Harry, Ron, and Heromine attend the party to show their support for their house ghost. But soon regretted it. The food is spoiled, the music is scratchy, and everyone there was a ghost.
Professor Binns - The ghost professor. He died at his desk, but didn't realize it so he kept on teaching as a ghost. He teaches History of Magic. Also he is the teacher that explains The Chamber of Secrets.
What they changed:
Harry was locked in his room with bars on his window for weeks - not just one day.
Harry, Ron, and Fang are carried by spiders and are taken to Aragog - they didn't follow a trail.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Now this is where they started to mess up really bad.
What they left out:
Explaining the Marauders!!! - You know the map, Fred and George give Harry? Yeah, well the map was created by the Marauders - which are Remus Lupin (Moony - a werewolf), James Potter (Prongs - an animagi which turned into a buck/stag/deer), Sirius Black (Padfoot - an animagi which turned into the grim or big black dog), and Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail - an animagi which turned into the rat). Animagi are people who can turn into an animal and the three did this in order to keep Lupin safe when he would transform into a werewolf.
Ron and Heromine's Arguments. - Remember in the movie when Hagrid gives Scabbers to Ron and Heromine is all like, "I think you owe someone an apology!" Well, if you never read the book you were probably like, "Why is she so angry? Scabbers was only missing for like part of the movie." - Well this is the real story... Scabbers went missing, Ron blamed Crookshanks. Heromine defended her cat. And thus Ron and Heromine didn't speak to each other for about half of the book. So when they find Scabbers, it's a big deal - because well, you'd have to read the book.
Harry's Crush on Cho. - If you watched the fourth movie and were like, who's this random Cho girl. You were probably not alone. Cho is the seeker for the Ravenclaw team. Harry and Cho faced each other in a game (also not shown), and he developed his crush on her.
Sirius and Crookshanks - Crookshanks helped Sirius into the castle when he was in his dog form.
What they changed:
Harry does NOT use his wand and use the spell Lumos while reading a magic book while at the Dursley's house - that would be called Underage Wizardry, which he could once again be kicked out of Hogwarts for. Instead Harry used a flashlight.
Harry gets his Firebolt right after his Nimbus 2000 breaks from Sirius, but they don't know that, but McGonagall has her suspicions and confiscates it.
Buckbeak isn't the only hippogriff. There are dozens of them.
Well, that's all I've got for you right now. Part 2 will have books 4 and 5. And Part 3 will have 6 and 7. There are many more wrongs in those books and so those will be longer blog articles.
Well, I hope you enjoyed! Comment below!
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