I always see posts about what we wish was in the movies/they didn’t change, and there are SO MANY THINGS THAT FIT THAT LIST. But honestly the movies did a great job and stayed pretty true to the books. SO, here’s a post to point out the great things the movies did! Please add on and let’s celebrate the movies that brought these amazing books to life!
Adding the word Potter to… “Scared Potter?” “You wish.”
Showing us what Neville forgot was to wear his robes
Bellatrix torturing Hermione by carving the word mudblood into her arm
Barty Crouch Jr. licking his lips (good job David)
Amos Diggory’s reaction to his son dying
“Look at it this way: every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now – students. If they can do it, why not us?”
In the OotP when they’re in the Hog’s Head a goat walks by… Aberforth owns the Hog’s Head/is the barman
Slughorn’s story about Lily and the fish
Voldemort hugging Draco
Showing Lupin and Tonks reaching for each other and just not touching. It killed me, but I loved it.
Continually having Seamus blow up things through out the movies
“I’ve always wanted to use that spell!”
Showing them just being kids and having fun! PoA scene where the boys eat the candy and make the animal noises
“The spiders… They want me to tap dance! I don’t wanna tap dance!”
“You tell those spiders, Ron!”
The shrunken heads in PoA
Burning The Burrow in HBP (I know people had issues with it but I actually liked it. It was a good way of visually representing how Voldemort and the Death Eaters effected people’s lives on a very personal scale)
Neville giving Harry the gillyweed on GoF - it makes more sense for Dobby to have been able to get it like in the books, but in the film it made Neville more involved and also added another clue to ‘Moody’s’ real identity
All of Filch’s screen time. He’s hilarious
The little glimpses we got of what Draco was up to in HBP. It gave us a slightly wider perspective than just Harry’s POV which made it more interesting, without revealing what he was actually doing
That muggle girl flirting with Harry at the beginning of HBP, showing he still has a life outside of fighting Voldemort and he’s still just a teenage boy
‘Who’d wanna be taught by me? I’m a nutter, remember?’ ‘You can’t be worse than old toad face.’ ‘Thanks, Ron.’ ‘I’m here for you, mate.’
‘Hermione’s got nice skin.’ ‘I think I’ll be going to sleep now.’
albus dumbledore and that time he hid something that voldemort wanted in his school and defended it with protections so weak that three eleven-year-olds could get through them
albus dumbledore and that time he didn’t shut down the school when a giant fucking snake was wandering around it
albus dumbledore and that one time he sent two traumatized teenagers back in time rather than be like “hey maybe give this dude a trial”
albus dumbledore and that one time he didn’t figure out a member of his faculty was a death eater under polyjuice
albus dumbledore and the exact wrong way to handle a teenager who has post-traumatic stress disorder
albus dumbledore and the point at which you should really realize that keeping secrets is unhealthy
albus dumbledore and the year he continued to fuck everyone over from beyond the grave
1. Prof. McGonagall sends the kids to the forbidden forest in the middle of the night because they were walking around in the middle of the night
2. Prof. McGonagall can cancel quidditch whenever the fuck she wants to
3. Prof. McGonagall gives a 13 year old a time machine but only for school
4. Prof. McGonagall thinks potter is a boy, not a piece of meat
5. Prof. McGonagall tells Peeves to unscrew it the other way
6. Prof. McGonagall can’t believe Dumbledore passed the burden of saving the world onto a kid who can’t even conjure birds out of thin air, I mean that’s so basic
7. Prof McGonagall fights the battle of hogwarts in her pajamas
My favorite thing ever is how Ron just sent Charlie a random letter like “hey yo there’s an illegal dragon at hogwarts, could you come and smuggle it out of here, please?” and Charlie was just like “yeah sure, I’ll trespass into the castle and steal a dangerous magical creature, of course, lemme just hit up my friends”
