Someone asked me what were my real thoughts on the Harry Potter movies and since I couldn't write it in one response, I thought I would just blog about it. Also, I just decided that I would do one on the Goblet of Fire movie since that one in my opinion was the worst.
I am taking into consideration the fact that this movie could not be a 5 hour movie, because it would have to be really long to capture the entirety of the book. You will find how disturbed I was they shunned the house-elves from this movie as they were an important part. (Sorry if this is long)
1. I'm gonna forgive the fact that the Quiddich World Cup scene only took up 5 minutes of the movie considering it took up a significant portion of the first part of the book. :) My main problem with this part of the movie is that you see a man making the Dark Mark, though you don't know who it is. In the book Harry, Ron, and Hermione hear a man's voice but only find Winky, (the Ministry of Magic's house-elf) standing nearby holding a wand which conjured the Dark Mark. Crouch, Sr. then fires Winky.
2. In the book, at school Hermione forms a group called S.P.E.W. (Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare) and tries to convince people that house-elves were being oppressed and they should be set free (though Dobby is the only one who wants to be free), this organization nor were any house-elves ever mentioned in the movie.
3. "Moody" gives Harry the idea to fly on his broom, but he spends what seems like weeks trying to perfect the accio spell, and is helped by Hermione during this period. During the first task, the dragon does not come off of his chain (movie), but Harry's broom does catch fire (book). I am sure this was done for mere entertainment.
4. Before the second task "Moody" tells Dobby (who is not in the movie at all) about the gillyweed and he steals it from Snape's private store, as opposed to Neville telling him about it and getting it for him.
5. During the entire school year Hagrid taught them about various creatures, including the Blast-Ended Skrewt, none of this was mentioned in the movie, but would become very important in the 3rd task. During the 3rd task, in the movie, the maze had no significance except that you had to get through it fast and it could consume you. It was much harder in the book because the champions encountered all sorts of creatures and curses in the maze (boggarts, blast-ended skrewts, a strange fog, etc.) which were supposed to stump them along the way. "Moody" helped clear the way for Harry so it would be easier for him to get to the trophy (portkey). The last thing in the maze was a riddle and upon completing and defeating the last part, the champion could run in and grab the trophy and win. (which Cedric and Harry agreed to do at the same time)
6. In the movie, it was never revealed that Rita Skeeter was getting strange stories from Hogwarts and no one knew how At the end you are supposed to find out that Hermione discovers Rita is an unregistered animangus who can turn into a beetle and could hide and secretly get stories about people. In the end Hermione captured Rita in her transformed state and told her not to write any more stories for a year (which will be semi-important for the next book/movie (if written in)).
7. In the movie BARTY CROUCH, JR. NEVER SAYS HOW HE ESCAPED AZKABAN! Weren't some of you wondering? He gave his mom polyjuice potion and faked his death, then he could escape because he was already "dead". Plus after a trial a dementor was supposed to question him (I think about putting the Imperius curse on his dad), but gave him the kiss of death instead (to which Dumbledore was upset about).
Okay, well I know that there are more things different about the movies and books, but these are the major ones for me. This was long, who actually read this whole thing?
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