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New Scene Added to Harry Potter 6

February 21, 2008

According to SnitchSeeker.com, Australia's Herald Sun has a new interview with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince producer David Barron, who says you can expect a scene in the film that is not in the book:

"But this was brought in because Jo (Rowling) was able throughout the quite lengthy book to keep dropping little snippets of what was happening in the outside world - there'd be people reading newspapers and talking about how somebody's parents had been killed, or somebody had been withdrawn from school because their parents didn't think it was safe.

And we're making aware that the Muggle world is also experiencing these disasters, but thinks they are disasters rather than the work of Voldemort.

The book is peppered with those moments, but we couldn't do that quite so easily in the film.

So (the extra scene) comes in the middle of the film and it just reminds us the world is no longer a safe place. Even in what would normally be considered the safe haven of the Burrow, nobody's safe.

I think you'll like it. It's quite effective."

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COMMENTS (56)

Posted by:

kyle

February 21, 2008

i don't know if i'd like a cut back to the muggle world. the whole book is based around harry and what he sees, and so have the movies. i'm curious to see how they'd do this without making it awkward.

Posted by:

kyle

February 21, 2008

i retract my previous comment. i seem to have misread something.

my bad.

Posted by:

Edmund

February 21, 2008

I don't really consider that as an add-on. It was just mentioned in passing in the book, but I guess JKR and the producers would want to expound on that thought to create a much-darker theme (not that it's already dark)

Posted by:

dragonlordison

February 21, 2008

as long as the movie is good, i don't care what they do.

it's all kind of like Star Wars in reverse. The real Star Wars stories are the movies and the books are secondary. In Harry Potter's case the books are the real stories and the movies are secondary. For the full experience the books should be read.

Posted by:

sejax

February 21, 2008

i think it's great! we didn't get a good enough glimpse into the Muggle world in the Goblet of Fire film (the Riddle House opening) as much as it was in the book. in Order of the Phoenix film they really gave you a sense of the real Muggle world with Harry in the very beginning. i hope they can shed some more light on how Voldemort is affecting theMuggle world.

CAN'T WAIT TIL NOVEMBER!!! just hope they make the ending as powerful and emotional as it should be! *crosses fingers*

Posted by:

aceface

February 21, 2008

Instead of writing new scenes for the movie, they should keep more to the books. In the Order of the Phoenix and in The Goblet of Fire the movies lost all of the magical appeal and the fun that made the books so great.

Posted by:

ScratStitch

February 21, 2008

Very, very interesting...

Posted by:

Grayskull Prime

February 21, 2008

I agree with Aceface. OOTP in particular left me missing several scenes. I can understand cutting for time if it wasn't the shortest Potter movie.

Posted by:

Johnathan

February 21, 2008

This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
When I'm watching a film the last thing i want to be reminded about is how much the world sucks outside of the movie. I watch them to take my mind off that crap.

BOO!!!!!!

Posted by:

ramon

February 21, 2008

what a ****!!??