Did you feel cheated walking out of the latest Harry Potter ? Yeah , me too . In an effort to cut this film down , managing director David Yates effectively neutered the most important scenes in the Good Book . Spoilers ahead !
Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince was notable only for David Yates ’ conclusion that the two most epically important parts at the end of the film should be cut : the death scene and the funeral prospect .
Sure , the movie was pretty and funny and not even rottenly drawn out like some of the Potters have been . But how could Yates have mistreated the fans so blatantly ? ! ? Well , then again , it ’s not like he had to gratify to us . At this point it seems like thisHarry Potterwill be a financial success , despitewhat people say .
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This loyal sports fan , however , has a few problems with Yates ’ revisionist ending .
The conflict between the monastic order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters
Alright , so there have been plenty of non - central characters cut out of the serial publication so far who were to appear in the conflict at Hogwarts and the funeral afterward ( which we ’ll get to next ) . And cutting them out makes sense , no replication here . But the want of any struggle whatsoever between the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix changes the magnitude of the evil envelop the humankind .
There is supposed to be clamouring , clanging and general dislocation , truthful immorality relegate it all in the “ safest blank space ” imaginable , Hogwarts . It ’s not plainly a puny , exclaim teenager uselessly urinate his final stand .
We ’re not supposed to have plainly Draco . Oh , Draco . What ’s with his sniffle and galling whine all throughout the movie ? Yeah , OK , some of it is transferred in from the rule book , but come on . It reach a breaking full stop in Dumbledore ’s office as Malfoy seems to be plead with the headmaster to save him from what is fated . In the record book , Draco see himself as a man , a grown - up , not a son playing dress up . But in Yates ’ version , Draco feel as visibly bring out as the Dark Lord sees him .
After Malfoy break to kill Dumbledore , JK Rowling paints a arrant picture of the moment that root on the great Snape Debate :
“ Severus … ”
The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening . For the first time , Dumbledore was plead .
Snape said nothing , but walked forwards and fight Malfoy roughly out of the way . The three Death Eaters fell back without a word . Even the werewolf seemed cowed .
Snape gaze for a moment at Dumbldore , and there was revulsion and hate engrave in the rough stemma of his face .
“ Severus … please … ”
On the Thomas Nelson Page , Snape was malevolent malevolent evil … until he was n’t . In the film , we should see him at the peak of evilness but the pleading between him and Dumbledore seems to give too much by . There ’s no hatred , no evil cross Snape ’s face ; it ’s more like visible pity . Even the pocket-size intermezzo between Potter and Snape address loudness about the prof ’s dead on target allegiances .
One of the greatest and most tremendous parts of the rule book was Harry ’s real unfitness to do anything to keep open his mentor . On screen , Yates has made the teen acquiesce to Dumbledore ’s lame “ stay below ” mastery . Really ? ! He remains below as his father figure is conk ? ! feel like a pig - out .
In Rowling ’s version we must suffer alongside Harry as he is petrify under the invisibility cloak . There ’s nothing to be done until Dumbledore is beat and Harry is released from the swearing . Then we glimpse Dumbledore ’s Army and the Order fighting Death Eaters . More than any other moment , that is the one where we see our students all growed up : Ginny and McGonagall are fighting side by side ( at least in my mind ) and you’re able to picture the D.A. fighting for their school in the corridors .
Dumbledore ’s funeral
What happened here ? Why is there no funeral and instead a simple wand show ?
Yates ’ determination to forgo a funeral was sorely misplaced . To not allow a generation of Potterphiles the chance to properly grieve for their be intimate one is ridiculous . Dumbledore has been a founder , a mentor , a change force in every student ’s life-time at Hogwarts . The worked up shift that occurs in the book at this point place the tone for everything that is to derive .
In the record , there are 3 whole chapter after Dumbledore ’s destruction wrap up the fate of the students , the shoal , and his final resting situation . Most of the impressible characters we ’ve met throughout the serial return for the honorable wizard ’s funeral . It ’s a heavy game of catchup and sends an even expectant message : In times of trial run , friends and loved ones must band together .
In Half - ancestry , the movie , we see the schoolmaster sprawled on the ground … and that ’s it . No grave , no funeral . A silly little idle show from the wands and then , view .
But Rowling fall in us the stop she knows we urgently need :
brilliant , white fire had irrupt around Dumbledore ’s body and the table upon which it lay : high and higher they rose , obscuring the body . whitened smoke spiraled into the air and made foreign flesh : Harry thought for one heart - halt moments , that he pick up a genus Phoenix fly joyfully into the blue , but the next second the flame had vanished . In its place was a white marble tomb , encasing Dumbledore ’s body and the table on which he had rest .
The most filmic moment of ( arguably ) the series is cut , and for what ? More awkwardRon - Lavender snogging , more comedy ? I would lief have given up a forced make - out sesh ( or two ) and the awkward wit for Dumbledore ’s whitened grave born of fervidness . Ironically , the characters in the Christian Bible have the same disputation among themselves : To bury the headmaster with the educatee present or to send them household . unluckily for us , Yates decides to befuddle Dumbledore ’s demise at us and then stuff us out of the field of operations . It feels too hasten .
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I feel like I got hoodwinked , sideswiped , gip . Whatever you call it , I want closure ! I necessitate a re - cut .
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