Are there any elements from the books that WEREN'T included in the movies do you hope WILL be included for the TV series? I'm hoping we finally get to see all the St Mungo scenes with the brief return of Gilderoy Lockhart.
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The Quidditch championship finale in Goblet of Fire. I remember that them cutting the entire sequence was one of the biggest dissapoinments of my childhood.
Goblet of fire didn't have a quidditch season because of the triwizard tournament, this is in the books.
The world cup, you silly chum
Colour me moronic, I've had enough weed for tonight. My bad fren
I don't understand. Is this going to be a remake of the books? or something new?
It's listed as a "remake" so presumably they're just going to look at the books and adapt a lot more with a brand new cast. Warner Brothers said they want the seasons to go on for years, if possible.
>Warner Brothers said they want the seasons to go on for years, if possible.
Cash cow. Abandon ship. It's going to be made to last forever. Things like whatever the frick comes on the CW network (green arrow, the flash). There's not going to be a holistic story from beginning to end with arcs and thought out development and whatnot.
Lol, they literally struck gold with those movie and now they're remaking them? What the frick is wrong with WB? Why not make an original story? I'm sure there's plenty of material to choose from.
There are plenty of things you could do better in terms of adapting the books, the movies were really kinda poor in that regard. The only issue is it'll be hard to replace some of the movies actors.
isnt that what they sought of did with fantastic beasts?
I'm pretty sure that anon meant "unrelated to Harry Potter".
>Why not make an original story?
They tried, Fantastic Beasts was a mess
Well it's going to be a steaming pile of shit anyways.
nope. dont remember the books cba rereading or googling synopsis. hope the series is as grim as that scene where the necklace gift for dumbledore ended up in that qts hand and he becamse the POPE'S EXORCIST
The scene where Dumbledore forcibly detransitions 1st years was brutal in the books.
I can't remember
looking forward to this show. I hope it isn't too much quidditch crap thoughever
>I'm hoping we finally get to see all the St Mungo scenes with the brief return of Gilderoy Lockhart.
mungo was completely omitted from the movies? i read the books semi recently and not seen the movies for a while but for some reason, i have a vivid picture of that scene in my head
but for me, it would generally be more of the nuance that was deleted from the movies. properly explaining the marauders in poa would be nice and then more time exploring harry and his parallels to the half blood prince. in the movie it's more like a little twist/gotcha with no themes attached to it. then i guess show all the voldemort memories and do the barty crouch jr storyline properly
>mungo was completely omitted from the movies?
Nope, Mungo's doesn't show up at all. Not even as some brief set piece in a 2 minute scene; no set was ever made since they never went there. It's only mentioned and we never see Neville's parents in their post-torture state; only their healthy forms from old pictures.
The birthday of Nearly Headless Nick was my favourite chapter of the second book and they just completely removed it from the movie
Snape's riddle at the end of book 1
>Hermione tries to free slaves
>Everyone makes fun of her because slaves love being slaved
The trio facetiming with the portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black on their quest in the last book.
Bagman and the money he owes from the twins
the house elves making all the tasty food below the great hall
hopefully ginny is more attractive because I fapped when I read the book
I unironically want them to expand on Ginny's role to at least be book level so there's at least some sort of relationship established between Harry & Ginny before their romance in year 6.
2nd year
>Ginny's valentine poem for Harry
>Ginny trying to confess to Harry & Ron what is going on but constantly being interrupted by her brothers who worry/tease her
3rd year
>Ginny being on the Hogwarts Express with Harry, Ron & Hermione once the dementor arrives
>Ginny presenting Harry with a get-well-soon card after Harry is injured during quidditch match
4th year
>Ginny becoming a natural part of who Harry hangs around with through her getting closer with Hermione
>Ginny being dissapointed at having accepted Neville's invitation for the Yule Ball once she hears Ron suggest that Harry should ask her
5th year
>The Silver trio (Ginny, Luna & Neville) forming to hang with the Golden trio (Harry, Ron & Hermione)
>Ginny's skills in quidditch coming to light once she gets to sub as a seeker for Harry when he is banned
>Ginny having a moment with Harry and chastises him for not coming to her (who has experience in the subject) when Harry is worried that he might be posessed by Voldemort
>Ginny's first natural one-on-one conversation with Harry when she gives him relationship advice and offers to help him in his quest to contact Sirius
visiting Sirius in the caves
the later movies were so badly executed it's insane
I watched Goblet of Fire last night and their inability to adapt a long book to a short film really shows. not just that but the jumbled mashup of plot shortcuts make the exposition and dialogue so feverish and unrealistic
Barty Couch Jr. was an actually interesting and clever character in the books and in the movie they made him into a le evil weirdo. Hope they could give him justice in any new adaptation. Honestly the entire Goblet need a proper adaptation as the movie was plain moronic.
If they n' up Hermione or any key character for the sake of it I am out
>Main characters are all white
Zero chance they don't do some race swapping. This will happen and you should just expect it
They could make a cute black Hermione with bushy hair, light brown freckles, and an overbite. The problem is when they just cast anyone and go, "IT'S HERMIONE TRUST ME!".
Hermione is already a far fetched character. Brilliant woman who comes from muggle background
making her black would be too unbelievable even in a world with flying broomsticks and magic wands
>Black people can't memorize text
Hermione's biggest drawback regarding her intelligence is that she's excellent at remembering lessons+text, but terrible at invention and struggles to do any magic that requires "feeling" (connecting with her broom, conjuring a Patronus).
If anything, that fits a black stereotype perfectly.
holy cope
also NTA but magic people are moronic. They """study"" waving a stick around in school. It is not weird at all that the muggle-born is the smart one
Black folk can't read
Actually, black have higher levels of estrogen (yes, including the men) which makes them more emotional than other races
If anything, it'd be the opposite - she'd excel at "feeling" magic but be shit at anything that requires thought, or imagining if she didn't eat breakfast that day
the old movies are filled with nigs.
by Goblet the extras are half pajeets and roodypoos and even Azkaban has Biggie Smalls in it
only HP1/2 have reasonable levels of token homierdry
They did it right, no one was bothered
Harry Only Knows one spell
>Are there any elements from the books that WEREN'T included in the movies do you hope WILL be included for the TV series?
Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione's Time Turner plot was gutted for the movie.
I just finished re-reading the Goblet of Fire in my current re-read of the series
There's so much shit in the book which is not in the film and besides the Blast-Ended Skrewt I think it can all be included in an adaptation
No, because Harry Potter was easily one of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects—all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody—just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the books are g-g-good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King
>look I posted it again!
>cis queer
what the frick does that mean?
Normal but not? Nothing makes sense with these people.
>literally all they have to do is cast white british people and copy the books
>probably as big as game of thrones
but they will mess it up probably
I have zero hopes for TV series.
Headless Hunt
Peeves
More Madam Hooch
Entire 5th book in general
Oh yeah, and Hermione's flaws. Also SPEW because she's right about that one
Doing Harry's relationship with Cho Chang properly (them breaking up because it seems she's only interesting in getting the story about Cedric from him and it fricking with his guilt over him).
Also all the stuff with Ginny that was cut so the relationship is less out of nothing than in the films.