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Originally Posted by Jo Dawn
Um... Have you read the book?
Hagrid and Madame Maxime have a thing in the book. Of course they're gonna show you that!
And thank goodness they left out the elves. Very easily lost for the adaptation.
And Myrtle? Hehe. oh come ON... that was just piceless!!
Actually, the characters are completely right. And remember... JK is really involved in the making of the movies. So however they act, it's how she wanted them to. Keep that in mind. It's not YOUR take on the characters that's right. It's HERS. So they were just right.
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Amen, JD... I was just about to respond to the same post. Hagrid/Maxime point you explained well, so I'll leave at that.
As for the houselves, I was glad they weren't in the book. I kinda saw them as annoying...nice subplot, but not really worth including in the movie. I liked how they (the writers) handled the absence of the houseelves (such as having Neville give Harry the gillyweed). It would unnecessarily complicate the movie and make it even longer (which means the movie would be even MORE rushed...)
I've always thought Moaning Myrtle had a thing for Harry in the books. Didn't she say something to either Harry or Ron about how she was lonely and wanted them to "keep her company?" I have a feeling I read that in either book 2 or Book 5/6. So I wasn't surprised that she behaved the way she did in the movie. I thought that part was HILARIOUS!
As Jo Dawn said, JKR is heavly involved with the movies. I think most people forget that fact and rashly assume that the movies, especially PoA, sucked because it deviated from JKR's vision when they don't really. Really, the movie are just JKR's retelling of the saga in a different medium, and people should view them as such, not simply the book on the silver screen. They are readaptions/retellings of the Harry Potter series.