The books were better than the movies. What else is new? Very few movies from books are as good as the book, and it is a rare thing indeed to find one that is better. The thing is they had 8 chances, and each was worse than the previous. I didn’t expect more than a million words in print to be put on the big screen, as well as they were on a page but I didn’t expect changes just for the sake of changes. The director’s job along with the screen writers’ is to put the authors’ tale to film, nothing more. When will studios figure out the fans will sit through a longer movie if the movie is true to the book?
J.K. Rowling had a great story to tell. But, as I have written here before, she needed a better Line Editor. She was absolutely, completely found it lovely to overuse adverbs. Drove me nuts when I was reading the books.
We have been watching the movies here at home for the umpteenth time. Maybe this is an example of familiarity breeds contempt. I don’t know. I am talking about both the books and movies.
I ask these questions: If He Who Shall Be Named, had 7 Horcuxs hidden away, why was he attempting to steal Sorcerer’s Stone? Why didn’t he have Quirell use one to bring him back to full power?
One more question. Once it was clear Harry and company were searching for the Horcruxes, why didn’t Voldemort gather them up and keep them safe? No, he ignored his safety to find a weapon he could use against Harry. Did he think he could kill Harry and replace each of the destroyed Horcruxes later?
Dumbledore was as close to a father as Harry would come to know. Okay, Pad Foot was too for a while. The thing is, Harry loved Dumbledore, he respected him almost to the point of worshiping him. Even after Dumbledore was dead, Harry carried on because he knew that was what Dumbledore wanted him to do.
Why did Hollywood have to make the battle between Harry and Voldemort something Rowling’s never meant it to be? The destruction of the last Horcrux was never a part of his eventual death. Even Regulus Black knew this. The rules of the Horcrux were established in the Order of the Phoenix, who gave the director the to change a major, well established plot point in the last movie.
This brings us to the Elder Wand. There is a scene in the book, The Deathly Hallows, after the war has ended and Voldemort has been forever defeated, where Harry is in the Headmaster’s Office, discussing with the portraits of Dumbledore and others, what he believed should be done with the Elder Wand. Not once was it ever hinted that it be destroyed. The wand in Harry’s eyes, in his heart, to the core of who he is, believed it was, is and always will be Dumbledore’s wand and therefore must be reburied with him. Harry could no more destroy it than he could kill his friends and himself. It was unthinkable.
The Director, a Death Eater or not, should be banished to Azkaban