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Originally Posted by annie711pm
Given that Snape became the Headmaster...in the books you never get to see what that is like, and since I adore both Snape & Alan Rickman, I'd love to see some action at Hogwarts while the kids are gone and see him actually being in charge there. Granted, I am not a fan of things being added in that aren't in the books (such as that stupid train station coffee shop scene from HBP) but if they can take stuff that DOES happen in the books & actually SHOW us, I am all for it.
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Actually that reminds me, one of the things I think was a lost opportunity for HBP in not only the movie but also the book, was how little time they spent showing Snape teaching DADA. I realize there was a lot of important things going on in book 6, but just given the fact that this was a job that Snape had continually been denied during Harry's whole time at Hogwarts, and he finally got it in year 6 (& obviously he'd been Potions teacher long before Harry got there) that Snape finally got into that post, it's like even Rowling herself really barely touched on that at all.
And the funny thing about that HBP coffee shop opening -- I actually remember reading a good while back about how they shot the sequence of Dumbledore collecting Harry from the Dursleys for HBP, but obviously they went an entirely different direction.
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Originally Posted by smokew11
i still think they should end part 1 on a sour note, with Harry finishing his burial of Dobby, looking out over the water and thinking about whats to come.
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Well I see two particularly good points in that. First, it allows for a pretty intense main opening act for part 2, seeing as how the next step is the Gringotts break-in. But also it's not long at all after that when they finally get back to Hogwarts, so that would tell me that they're really going to do everything in the last few chapters of the book real justice.
I'm still wary of the Dobby thing, though. I'm not sure that people who have only watched the movies will be at all emotionally invested in Dobby when he pops back up, they haven't seen him since Chamber. It might've been a mistake by the filmmakers to have left him out of every movie since then, instead of how like he stayed around even in a small way in the books.