Monday 24 September 2012

Reading Reflection #3

Reading reflection #3

book: Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix
author: J.K. Rowling
pages: 526-560

There are many differences between the book and the movie, the main thing is that the movies can only fit so much in, and there for must fallow the plot of Harry versus Voldemort much more strictly. What happened to the films as the book sizes increased, is that they had to leave more and more out, "Such as Fred and Gorges departure from Hogwarts once they had enough of Ms Umbridge" and try and portray Voldemort and Harry's battle more clearly for the audience. The differences also define the similarities, since they had to stay so close to the plot that is where they made their connections. For example the battle in the forth book when Cedric Diggary died, was followed nearly perfectly, with the few exceptions of Harry;s emotions that would have been hard to display.
 What the movie also did was focus more on the creature battles, where the movie made it last five minutes the book only had a couple of sentences on it, such as the dragon in the forth movie.
What the movie does with the creature scenes of Harry Potter will always be a preference of mine, but for everything else i prefer the book. this is because it includes so much more story to it, and for me story is the whole point, so unless your more visual, books probably include so much more for you.

Something I have been wondering ever since Hagrid returned, is what has been happening to him to cause all the injuries. The problem with this question is that there is not much of an answer, since he tends to put himself in very risky situations it is hard to narrow down what could be happening.
So when I found out that Hagrid has been keeping his brother " A Giant" in the forbidden forest I must say i was not surprised. J.K Rowling may have cause a fair bit of curiosity in her readers with this, but for me it was not as much of a surprise as it could have been. Saying it then makes me wonder if she meant to wright this way, to give you a glimpse as to what is coming in the future, although I am not sure, this also seemed a likely possibility.

A big thing that has happened recently is Dumbledore's flee, and has caused me to really think about where this will lead to, since Umbridge is making things difficult for everyone, what will happen now that they have no one to stick up for themselves. Although the students are making things hard for her I would really like to know what will send her on her way.

1 comment:

  1. I enjoy your comparison of the novel to the movie. I personally never read the series, but I am a big fan of the films. Your review and the point that the storyline is much more thorough and detailed in the books makes me want to take up reading Harry Potter!

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