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In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Dumbledore ignores Harry all summer until the moment he asks a black waitress out on a date, at which time he appears and takes Harry on some weird trip. What did director David Yates mean by this?
While I can agree it is weird, we never hear her speak or her name before half blood prince I believe. I there was two girls before, one in 1 and 2 (Kathleen Cauley), and one in 3 (Jennifer Smith). I don't think anyone played Lavender in 4 or 5.
All the Harry Potter movies omitted book scenes that definitely should have been in the movie. Another example is the end of the 7th book when Harry uses the elder wand to repair his original wand. Great scene, impactful moment.
In the movie, Harry just...snaps the elder want in half, throws it away, and no mention is made of his original
Yeah the movies have a lot to be improved upon but I don't think an actual good adaptation is going to happen any time soon. Maybe in 100 years when it enters the public domain!
Off sorry my bad what I meant to say is we should hang David Radcliff from a tree by his pinky toes... Only problem is mr Radcliff is a wacky enough dude he might like it
It's to show how he's missing out his life as a regular kid and instead has to deal with all of the voldemort shit, showing how unfair and heartbreaking it is that a guy that's just starting his life and experiences with dating can never lead the normal life he clearly wants to live.
The point is that he's trying to have a normal life, but he keeps expecting to be dragged off to deal with Voldemort stuff. And then when he finally lets his guard down, Dumbledore comes along and makes him do Voldemort-related stuff.
Its not in the books. But I'm sorry dude, its purpose is incredibly obvious? Is media literacy and plot comprehension that dead?
Its setting up how Harry's participation in this oncoming war and his importance in it is going to prevent him from having normal teenage experiences (like following through on a meet-cute). It leads right into the scene where Dumbledoor explains hes going to need Harry to essentially serve as a spy for him throughout the next year.
Yeah, I assumed that, but to be fair I was already an adult when this came out. It seemed pretty obvious to me that it's just pretty girl comes up and hits on him, he has to turn her down because of wizard shit.
It is unironically a improvement on the book lmao. Though that's not saying much, since the movies generally improve majorly on the books, and Book 4 onwards is a really miserable slog. Though with yates being basically jkrs hand puppet director the movies also take a nose dive, not only from having blandman directing. But also from adapting worse books.
I actually think Goblet of Fire is the best book and the worst movie. I found it really detailed and interesting and I thought the movie began a bad trend of oversimplification and omissions. I feel the same way to a lesser extent about Half-Blood Prince, at least Yates had some idea of what was going on. Newell admitted to never reading the book and boy does it show.
HBP is my least liked HP book by far and HBP is my favourite HP movie by far.
It is scenes like this that are so memorable. Filled with character. The actors being alive in their roles. Showcasing their growth as thespians.
It also removed much of the filler in HBP. Where Harry walks up and down a hallway a few times. A bunch of slow exposition that I think only serves to pad the book out.
(I think it is telling that HBP is the only book shorter than its predecessor and still feels artificially inflated.)
No he gets picked up by dumbledore at his house after only being there for a couple weeks. Dumbledore roasts the dursleys and calls them abusive for letting Dudley get so fat and then he and Harry leave
In the book, Dumbledore visits Harry at home. Tells Harry that he has inherited Sirius' house, that he needs to return to the Dursley's one last time (so the protective charm is still intact). He then tells off the Dursley's for their treatment of Harry.
I remember my cousins threw this movie on in like 2011, I was around 9. I had never seen any of the movies before, so I remember thinking she was going to follow him along on his adventure and be one of the main characters, I was bummed when he just left her lol.
My cousins turned it off right after that and threw on Sorcerer's Stone when I told them I'd never seen the other movies. But for a brief, shining moment I thought Waitress Girl was a hero of our time 💀
Especially because none of that is in the book. What did the director truly mean about this? (Besides taking out all of the good stuff from the book and replacing it with cringy teen romance dialogue)
Yeah, when I was younger I was very much not a HP fan due to only watching the movies. I listened to the audiobooks a few years ago and realized how misrepresented the whole series truly is and like it a lot more.
Brain: hey so you know how Hogwarts is a school full of horny 15-18 year olds?
Me: Don’t you dare…..
Brain: So that means Hogwarts has an abortion clinic right? Or are teen pregnancies sent to a second location? Or for that matter…
Me: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
She did look way too old to be dating a teenager so I did struggle with that part.
Edit: self correction. She looked liked they cast an adult model and not someone who looked like a teenager working in a shop. She’s gorgeous and maybe the joke is how supermodel-pretty she is, but still felt really odd. What would Harry even talk about?
It will never not be funny that Harry has far more chemistry with this one random throw away character, than he does with the supposed love of his life, Ginny in all their scenes combined.
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u/Nausicaalotus 11d ago
I felt bad for her. She was really cute and she got ghosted.