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[CLOSED] - The Harry Potter Book Club! - Your Notes for Chapters 22 & 23 of The Goblet of Fire!

🕑 Added 2024-06-02 18:24:20 +0000 UTC

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Simon audsley

"compliance" erm... the moral implications of moody having an eye that can see theough clothes is a bit problematic. nice bit if back story on hagrid in this chapter and a mention of giants which I think the film skips, though the mind boggles at how that inter species relationship works anatomically.

Jonas (Methanoutput)

Hey Hawwah :) Since this is clearly your favorite character i can understand, why you are frustrated with Alan Rickmanns portrayal, but in my opinion, he is still one of the better actors in the movie. I would also give him the benefit of the doubt, that some directors made him do some of the things, that are out of character for Book Snape. I don't want to upset anyone, but when i think about Bonnie Wrights perfomance... I think it is one of the most emotionless lifeless perfomances i have ever seen. Actually the only scene from her i really liked, was the scene in the bookstore, where she confronts Malfoy. But when you could have choosen the actor for Snape, at the time the movie was made, who would you have picked?

Hawwah

I was worried I was going to miss out on this book club but it looks like I'll manage to sneak my comment in at the last moment! :) I promise this is my very last comment on how much I hate the movies. But I need to get this one off my chest. (Don't worry, it is related to these 2 chapters.) Veggie, you know how much I love book Severus Snape. Unfortunately, I don't recognize him in Mr Rickman's performance at all. Take the scene of Mr Rickman smacking the boys with a book and aggressively shoving their heads. This scene isn't anywhere in the books, it was completely made up by the filmmakers. It's also completely out of book Snape's character! Book Snape is verbally harsh but he's always physically gentle. He scolds students and deducts points but he never uses physical punishment. Never. There's not a single scene of him hitting a student anywhere in the books. That's why I hate the movie scene so much. Talk about character assassination. I already wrote it before - Severus has many great characteristics but the thing I love about him the most is how non-violent he is. When you take this trait from him, he stops being Severus Snape to me. To me, Mr Rickman is not Severus Snape. He doesn't look like book Snape. He doesn't behave like book Snape. He doesn't even speak like book Snape! (Severus never speaks unnaturally slowly like Rickman does in the movies.) They don't even have the same backstory. (Don't worry, no spoilers there.) For example, book Severus was almost murdered by a classmate (using a werewolf as a murder weapon) when he was 16. This near-death experience naturally traumatised young Severus and shaped his personality. But this never happened in the movie timeline! And that's just one example. Real Severus Snape is in the books.