Little Tidbits they missed in HP and the Deathly Hallows

Also known as, Eighteen Instances in which the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Movie has Failed the Book By Not Including a Much Loved Fact or Line. (I do like the movie though. I just wish they would include those little details that make the books so epic.)



1. "...with a bright white flash and a crack, a crystal ball fell on the top of Greyback's head and he crumpled to the ground and did not move. "I have more!" shrieked Professor Trelawney from over the banisters... and with a movement like a tennis serve, she heaved another enormous crystal sphere from her bag, waved her want througth the air, and caused the ball to speed across the hall and smash through a window..."



Hehe, I would've loved to see the quirky Professor Trelawney start smashing crystal balls into the baddies. Especially since she always seems so out of it.

2. "He did not recognise the room at all. It was enormous, and looked rather like the interior of a particularly sumptuous tree house...multicoloured hammocks were strung from the ceiling... and windowless walls were covered in bright tapestry hangings. Harry saw the gold Griffindor lion, emblazoned on scarlet, the black badger of Hufflepuff, set against the yellow, and the bronze eagle of Ravenclaw, on blue. The silver and green of Slytherin alone were absent."

Colour!!! T_T The movies are so colourless and drab. Sometimes I wish the director would just stop making the whole thing so utterly depressing. Hogwarts should be colourful!!!

3. "Cho spoke again, "If you'd like to see what the diadem's supposed to look like, I could take you up to the common room and show you, Harry?" Cho had got to her feet, but Ginny said rather fiercely, "No, Luna will take Harry, won't you, Luna?" "Ooooh, yes, I'd like to," said Luna happily, and Cho sat down again, looking dissapointed."

LOLs.

4. "The deserted Ravenclaw common room was a wide, circular room, airier than any Harry had ever seen at Hogwarts. Graceful arched windows punctuated the walls, which were hung with blue and bronze silks: by day, the Ravenclaws would have a spectacular view of trhe surrounding mountains. The ceiling was domed and painted with stars, which were echoed in the midnight-blue carpet. There were tables, chairs and bookcases, and in a niche opposite the door stood a tall statue of white marble."

I was so looking forward to seeing the Ravenclaw common room :'( If I went to Hogwarts, I would have liked to be in Ravenclaw. You know how Griffindor has the fat lady to guard their common room? For Ravenclaw, they have to answer a riddle. ISN'T THAT SO AWESOME?

5. "Hermione sat panting on the floor beside Goyle, who was still unconscious. "C - Crabbe," choked Malfoy, as soon as he could speak. "C- Crabbe..." "He's dead," said Ron harshly.

I know Crabbe died suddenly in the movie but couldn't they have shown Malfoy suffering about it? Crabbe got one quick glance and that's all. Keep in mind that Crabbe and Goyle have been with Malfoy since the FIRST movie.

6. "Hello Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?"

7. "No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!" And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face."

They never showed how Fred died in battle. Or how Lupin and Tonks died too. That's not fair. Those characters deserved some sort of last glory shot of them fighting Death Eaters before they died or something.

8. "Even as they stood braced, looking for the opportunity to act, there came a great "wheeeeeeeeee!" and, looking up, Harry saw Peeves zooming over them, dropping Snargaluff pods down on to the Death Eaters, whose heads were suddenly engulfed in wriggling, green tubers like fat worms."



LOL that would've been cool to see.



9. "I'm Draco Malfoy, I'm Draco, I'm on your side!" Draco was on the upper landing, pleading with another masked Death Eater. Harry stunned the Death Eater as they passed: Malfoy looked around, beaming, for his saviour, and Ron punched him from under the Cloak. Malfoy fell backwards on top of the Death Eater, his mouth bleeding, utterly bemused. "And that's the second time we've saved your life tonight, you two-faced bastard!" Ron yelled."



I repeat. That would've been cool to see.



10. "Somewhere in the distance they could hear Peeves zooming through the corridors singing a victory song of his own composition: "We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the One, And Voldy's gone mouldy, so now let's have fun!" "Really gives a feeling for the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn't it?" said Ron, pushing open a door to let Harry and Hermione through."



11. "Any moment, the people for whom he had tried to die would see him, lying apparently dead, in Hagrid's arms. "NO!!" The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound. He heard another woman laughing nearby, and knew that Bellatrix gloried in McGonagall's despair."



No one really reacted to Harry's death (with the exception of Ginny). In the book, it was way more traumatic as all of Harry's friends and the people of Hogwarts saw his "dead" body in Hagrid's arms. I don't think they did that really well in the movie.





12. "The house elves of Hogwarts swarmed into the Entrance Hall, screaming and waving carving knives and cleavers, and at their head, the locket of Regulus Black bouncing on his chest, was Kreacher, his bullfrog's voice audible even above this din: "Fight! Fight! Fight for my master, defender of house elves! Fight the Dark Lord, in the name of brave Regulus! Fight!" They were hacking and stabbing at the ankles and shins of Death Eaters, their tiny faces alive with malice...."



There wasn't even ONE house elf in the battle :( Not even one?



13. "Snape took the page bearing Lily's signature, and her love, and tucked it inside his robes. Then he ripped in two the photograph he was also holding, so that he kept the part from which Lily laughed, throwing the portion showing James and Harry back on to the floor, under the chest of drawers..."



The Snape scenes were pretty well done. If I could cry, I would've cried during that scene where he held Lily in his arms. But that doesn't make up for the fact that they only showed LESS THAN A THIRD of the Snape scenes. What happened to Snape and Lily's encounter on the Hogwarts Express with James and Sirius? What happened to Snape calling Lily a mudblood? What happened to Snape camping outside the Griffindor common room, just so Lily would come out to see him? What happened to "the intensity of his gaze made her blush." WHAT HAPPENED? *wails and beats fists against the floor* I still love you though, Alan Rickman.





Luna :D She's too awesome for words. I needed more awesome Luna quotes in the movie.





15. "Draco Malfoy was standing there with his wife and son...The new boy resembled Draco as much as Albus resembled Harry. Draco caught sight of Harry, Ron and Hermione and Ginny staring at him, nodded curtly and turned away again. "So that's little Scorpius," said Ron under his breath. "Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank God you inherited your mother's brains." "Ron, for heaven's sake," said Hermione, half stern, half-amused. "Don't try to turn them against each other before they've even started school!"



16. "Albus jumped into the carriage and Ginny closed the door behind him. Students were hanging from the windows nearest them. A great number of faces, both on the train and off, seemed to be turned towards Harry. "Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus, as he and Rose craned round to look at the other students. "Don't let it worry you," said Ron. "It's me. I'm extremely famous."



17. "Don't forget to give Neville our love!" Ginny told James as she hugged him. "Mum! I can't give a Professor love!" "But you know Neville -" James rolled his eyes. "Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love..."



The epilogue wasn't really that well done. I think they ran out of time. So many loose ends to tie up! They didn't even introduce Harry's other kids or Ron's kids. And I wanted to see Tonk's and Lupin's son :(





18. "I stole the diadem from my mother." "You - you did what?" "I stole the diadem," repeated Helena Ravenclaw in a whisper. "I sought to make myself cleverer, more important than my mother. I ran away with it."



They never fully explained the Rowena/Helena Ravenclaw thing about the tiara. There was also something about the Slytherin ghost, The Bloody Baron, who stabbed Helena Ravenclaw when she refused to marry him. I don't know. I find Hogwarts history interesting. The thing is, these ghosts have appeared since the first book and to hear their storylines explained in the last book was an "OMG revelation" moment for me.



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  1. Cecilia says:

    I'm determined not to read this post until I watch HP7 tomorrow...even though it's really hard not to O_O

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