Saturday, November 26, 2005

Evanesco Incatatem

Yesterday, I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I would like to point out some of the omissions I thought missed.

  • They did not explain "Priori Incantatem." They were leading up to it; Harry told Dumbledore about it, and Dumbledore gave it a name, then told him nothing can bring his parents back. Would it have been so hard to tell him it was because the wands were from the same phoenix.
  • I felt like Harry was an incompetent wizard. Even in the book he needed help to get the solutions, but he also does a lot of work practicing spells. He may not be Dumbledore or Voldemort in terms of power and ability, but he is competent.
  • The Quidditch scene was cut a lot. Winky is gone, for better or worse. Actually, so is Dobby and S.P.E.W. But they also took out the scene with the levitated Muggles, which was shown in the trailer.
  • Moody doesn't say "Constant Vigilance!" once.
  • They used like 1 or 2 spells in the maze, and otherwised displayed their awesome magical power of running around.

    Despite this, it was a pretty good movie overall.
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