Originally posted by: nureat01
Exactly...and you know just to give an example from book 1...the entire build up they give it with the beginning showing Dumbledore and McGonnogal on Privet Drive...the intro the Dursleys...what happens on the day we first are introduced to "the boy who lived"...the amaaazing amount of HUMOR with which Jo Rowling has written even the Dursleys in that entire build up to them trying to shield the letters from Harry, trying to constantly deny and ignore what he is, Harry's curiosity, confusion about the why of all this...in the last book, there's the scene when the Dursleys are leaving Privet Drive for the final time and Dudley actually refuses to leave for a bit without Harry...Dudley actually thanks Harry for saving his life...little moments like these I just found so touching...and in the end Harry is surprised but remarks in humor that Dudley seems to have gone through a personality transplant...these are the tiny touches that MAKE the series...none of this is in the movies obviously...the books were what TRULY felt like the end of an era to me...Yes, the last movie is coming out now and that's like the official 'end' so to speak of everything...but the way the books touched me, the movies never ever can.
SO true. I stopped watching the films after Azkaban because I hated the way they filmed that one, even though some say it was one of the stronger ones. Prisoner of Azkaban was my favourite HP book mostly because of Sirius and the idea that Harry had finally found someone to call his family, someone who would stand by him no matter what. After 11 years of being mistreated by his mother's sister...he found a family with his father's best friends. The way that Sirius is killed in the later books, abruptly taken away from Harry was so fantastically tragic, it was the first time I cried at the loss of a character in the series. The only other time was, of course, Dumbledore. But the Azkaban film and the actor who played Sirius did NOT live up to my expectations and thoroughly disappointed me, and I haven't seen a film since, even though some say they got a alot better. My sis, after watching Goblet of Fire, told me how much they had cut out from the movie and it really made me nauseous at seeing a writer's words chopped away to nothing. But, of course, JK had an input in all the films which is something I am glad about, because can you imagine the liberties that might have been taken otherwise? Harry might have been an American kid in a High School Musical type school 😲
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