I can see having to leave quite a bit out but changing key points like they did is inexcusable. 1. Ron's character 2. Ginny's character 3. The stupid events at the Burrow in HBP.

#1 Not allowing Bonnie Wright to properly portray Ginny Weasley

I loved how the narrator mentioned the final fight. Voldemort's body just disappearing did no service to the story.

Some of my picks: -Making Ginny shy and not saying much rather than sassy and not taking heat from others. Also her romance scenes with Harry in The Half Blood Prince movie were the worst scenes in the films for me. -The movie version of the maze removing all the creatures and the upside down mist. -Removing the Hepzibah Smith memory which was how Harry learned Hufflepuff's Cup and an artifact from Ravenclaw, which Dumbledore had determined after seeing the locket and cup were from Hogwarts Houses in the memory, were two of the horcruxes he was going to be looking for. I can understand leaving the Gaunt memories out but that memory should have been in the movie for sure. -Not having Voldemort and Harry's final duel be in front of others. Also Voldemort slapping and kicking Harry made no sense with him having a wand and being determined to kill Harry. -The added scenes in The Half Blood Prince of Harry being in a muggle cafe with The Daily Prophet flirting with the waitress and the attack on the burrow.

I'm surprised you didn't include Grindlewald basically selling Dumbledore out, the complete opposite of what he did in the book.

Book Snape hated Harry, literally hated him. He didn't show or teach Harry how to do Occlumency properly as Dumbledore admitted at the end of OOTP. Also Harry told Snape during the lesson he wasn't telling Harry how and Snape just told him to mind his manners. The director of Goblet of Fire never read the book complaining it was too long, so he was going by whatever the screenwriters wrote without a clue. Frankly trying to turn an 800 page book into a 2 hour movie isn't going to work anyway.

Hermione taking all of Ron's moments and making Ron a jerk.

It is absolutely bonkers to me that the movies never explained who the creators of the Map were. It's literally a key detail of the series and not to mention there is a whole separate fandom based exclusively around them

The worst of the worse was having Harry destroy the Elder Wand in the final film. Harry loved and respected Dumbledore, and could no more destroy his wand then he could be Death Eater,

Harry had zero personality in the movies outside of being humble and having a saviour complex. In the books he’s very witty and sarcastic.

Should have just made Goblet 2 movies. No one would have complained

Beautiful art in this video

I think that they should have digitally made Harry's eyes green. Some off the deviations from the book were because they needed to get a PG-13 rating. I agree that they did not explain and show Harry's need to live with his Aunt to continue his Mother's protection. I do understand the need to cut characters out, but they should have shown more of Dobby to explain the deep grief that Harry felt. Also removing Cho's friend and making Cho the traitor didn't show Harry losing his love interest with her earlier. They could then have increased the attraction between Harry and Ginny earlier.

Honestly, i maybe the only person who wasn't really bothered by the Quiddich World Cup scene. There where so many important things that needed to happened, that i just couldn't care about a sports game

Films are rarely as good or as intricate as the books.

Totally off topic, but in the Jasper FForde Thursday Next series about literary detectives, Thursday can enter books and ineract with the characters as long as no-one is reading the book at the time. There is a snarky bit about Harry Potter hating the movies because now when anyone reads the books they visualised Daniel Radcliffe instead of him!

The portrayal of Snape's memories was particularly egregious. Was Snape present for Lily's murder? According to the movie he was. How else would it have shown up in the Pensieve?

the thing is that Alan Rickman was tired of playing evil characters so Snape had to be the good guy that sacrificed himself for his love while James was a bully. in fact, there's the theory that Snape was to be revealed as loyal to voldemort but JK changed that to hook Rickman into playing the character. a similar thing happened with Hermione being made far better than in the books. and I will forever miss Peeves. they completely erased the character. all his actions were removed or credited to the weasley twins. the two other schools of the triwizard tournament are implied to be single gender while, in the books, both schools have students of both genders. the entire character development of Ginny Weasley was completely ignored making it difficult to understand why she went from ignoring harry to "I want to eat his mouth with all I have" and... for the grand finale the worst offender of all. Harry has blue eyes while Lily has BROWN eyes!!! over the entire story we are told that harry is like his father but with his mother's eyes. but in the movies they don't even share the color. note: most actors/actresses were miscast. Emma Watson is too pretty for Granger, Bonnie Wright is pretty but far from the gorgeous Ginny Weasley. Neville, Ron and the twins are also miscasts. I'm not saying they aren't good actors, far from it, but they don't fit their character's look.

Everything done to Hermione. Took everything great about Ron and gave it her because of the writers bias.

9:10 Sacrifical Protection spell didn't protect him only when he was in and considering Dursleys house as his home. It is the bond of blood charm. If that was true, why Dumbledore himself said that Voldemort by taking Harry's blood into his body tethered Harry to life?

You know, there are a few things here that I can add. 1. Voldemort and the Death Eaters. All of Britain was terrified of these frightful ogres and yet they can be pushed around by wizard in training teenagers who didnt use much magic. It is a little bit of an insult to 10,000-15,000 people who said to have died in the First Wizarding War. In the books, they are the bogeymen that struck fear and terror into the hearts and minds of everyone due to thier infamous skills and power. I know a lot of people are curious about this one too. I doubt it was because of the taboo either. 2.Peeves: My favourite character. He made me laugh so hard during class, I was asked to leave many times for disturbing 'quiet hour'. It is a shame hey removed him completely, and apparently, it is because he made everyone laugh so much that they couldn't film properly. (I hope the tv reboot will feature him) 3. Winky: Shame they didn't keep her either. 4. Elder Wand: This one is messy and pointless. This tool was one of the three Deathly Hallows to master death, it is indestructible, unstoppable, has a long bloody history, it can't be trusted, it is strong, it can't be beaten, it makes the user unstoppable, it is legendary and somewhat infamous and yet......Harry Potter just snaps it in half and throws the pieces away. In the books, he just returns it to the tomb, but like in all these years, I am pretty sure other people would have tried to break it too. not only that, the loyalty thing is complicated. 5. Voldemort again: The End was weird. He just vaporised when the spell rebounded again, and it did look painful since he broke apart slowly. It is a satisfying end, despite the fact that he was a shrivelled thing at King's Cross. Not only that, he just died in the book 6. The World Cup: It was rather disappointing, as I was looking forward to that one. They managed to show the Hogwarts version no problem.

All good points. For me, the most upsetting change was with Mad-Eye. In the Goblet of Fire book he was a formidable and dangerous person who commanded respect. In the movie (with that absurd strap-on eye) he was little more than a bellowing clown. The portrayal abandoned everything that made Mad-Eye such a memorable character. In fact, the Goblet of Fire movie suffered from too many alterations, eliminating much of what made it such a richly fascinating story (such as Hermione's creation of SPEW and Harry's growing awareness of the ministry's constant bungling).

To be fair about the Wormtail scene: suicide by autoasphyxiation is very dark, and while it is okay to put to words, it's not okay to show in a PG-13 film. I suspect the filmmakers changed it to avoid Deathly Hallows Part 1 getting an R or NC-17 rating, as I don't think even cutting away and showing Pettigrew suffocating himself through shadows would have saved it. Also, Pettigrew was supposed to return in Part 2, but apparently, his role was cut.

Cho's breakup: Important to note is also that Hermione's "SNEAK" jinx was completely omitted in the movies. Harry took pride in Hermione's stunt, while Cho was outraged. Wormtail's death: It was important, but as far as I've been told it was censoring. Harry Potter attracted a young audience and the silver hand strangling its owner was deemed too horrifying. Yet it was indeed important that Wormtail would be shown to pay off his life debt. If not by his own silver hand, than perhaps by a Death Eater casting Avada Kedavra on him, but the stun (if I ain't mistaken performed by Dobby) was the cheap way out. Merope's omission: Certainly beyond me, as it does explain a lot about the Slytherin bloodline, and perhaps also Voldemort's pride in all this. Not to mention how wrong Merope was in using a love potion to get a man to was revolted by her to love her (which is actually a kind of rape). Voldemort's death: The disintegration was also bad as it places Voldemort as having gone beyond humanity (as he took pride in). Just a normal corpse, snake like, yes, but still a normal corpse, indeed humiliated in death in face of everyone, was showing that Voldemort was just a (foolish) human being after all and that his great abilities didn't change that fact. Marauders: Not only does Harry refer to Peter as "Wormtail", but when he tries to convey the message to Snape that "Padfoot" was in danger (which Umbridge did of course not understand, but that was Harry's intention), it made no sense in the movies that Harry knew that name, nor that Snape did know what Harry meant. If you read the books, you'll know why both knew this. (The films also omitted that Snape warned Dumbledore, but perhaps that was easy to assume). In the novel Snape calls Lupin in when he confiscated the Marauder's Map, which was a hint to Lupin being one of the Marauders. In the movie Lupin just coincidentally happens to pass by. I must confess that although I've seen (and enjoyed) all the movies, that the more I re-read the books, the more I see how terrible the movie adaptations were, and yes, that began with the Prisoner Of Azkaban. A few more things that I absolute hated about the movies: - Dumbledore's hysteria when Harry name came out of the Goblet of Fire, while in the book he remained calm. - The exact reason why "priori incantatum" took place when Harry fought Voldemort at the graveyard is completely omitted in the films. Odd, since in film 1 Olivander did mention the two feathers of the same phoenix that Harry's and Voldemort's wands share, signifying the connection between Harry and Voldemort. - The fact that the prophecy could also have referred to Neville Longbottom, but that Voldemort actually chose Harry to be his nemisis, was also omitted, while this could have made Neville so much more important and shining, not to mention that the entire coming true of that prophecy was all Voldemort's work in the end. - Gellert Grindelwald never betrayed the resting place of the Elder Wand in the novels. He even predicted that the Elder Wand would never belong to the Dark Lord and that the damn thing would even be his downfall, showing his actual redemption. Voldemort was angered by it, used the killing curse on Grindelwald. This is so contractionary to the movies here he immediately tells Voldemort with an evil grin, that Dumbledore had the Elder Wand all along. Given the kind of villain Grindelwald is in the Fantastic Beasts films ruins that part of his character even more. - In the movies Barthy Crouch Jr. took pride in being revealed as a Death Eater even taunting his father with a sarcastic "hello father". In the movies he always denied being a Death Eater and was downright desperate and in true fear. In the movies Dumbledore tells Harry that the evidence against Crouch jr. was "overwhelming". In the novels Sirius tells Harry the exact opposite. This made the revelation that the fake Mad-Eye Moody was actually Crouch jr. even more of a "WHAT THE FUCK" moment. - The wolf's bane potion that Snape made for Lupin to prevent him from going berserk while in werewolf form was completely omitted in the movies, however Sirius mentioned it just before Lupin transforms into his wolf form ("Did you take your potion, tonight?") It made no sense that Sirius knew about Snape making the potion for him in the first place, plus when you never read the book the entire mention of the potion didn't make sense at all. - In the movies the trio had no idea what they were doing when hunting the Horcruxes. In the novels the only Horcrux unknown to Harry was Harry himself as Dumbledore only tells this when Harry meets him in Limbo. Them finding the Horcruxes even knowing that Hufflepuff's Cup and Ravenclaw's diadem were Horcruxes made little sense. - Wouldn't it have been better if Harry kissed Ginny passionately after Ginny made the winning move in the final Quidditch game, like in the books. Made a lot more sense than in the room of requirement after hiding the textbook of the Half Blood Prince. (Not to mention the fact the Snape demanded to see Harry's potions textbook, which was a straight in-your-face hint to Snape being the Half Blood Prince, as a result to Harry's sectumempra curse on Malfoy, was also omitted). - In the movies, the falsified memory of Voldemort asking Slughorn about the Horcruxes scrambled the word "Horcruxes". In the novels, it was clear from the start that Voldemort asked about Horcruxes, although it was only revealed after the true memory was shown what a "Horcrux" actually was. - In the novels Ron was insecure which made him sometimes not appear the best way possible, yet being brilliant at many times without him even realizing it, but in the movies he was a repulsive idiot. - Where did the portable swamp go? The best prank Fred & George pulled. - Umbridge's hand appearing in the fireplace trying to catch Sirius. This was first of all a horrifying moment in general, second it showed all the more that the Floo network was being monitored, and monitored networks are THE sign of true dictatorships, which is very horrible to realize. It also shows how stupid Umbridge was, as she revealed herself this way, while she could have scored so much more if she was more patient, even if it meant letting Sirius go, but her lack of patience, obsession to score too quickly not only led to ending up with less, but also that she revealed herself as spying the network, which is something you do not want to do when spying. The movies letting this out was not a good move. - Harry NEVER saw Wormtail on the Marauder's map in the novels. He did see Crouch jr. on the map the year after that, but as sr and jr are not shown by the map, Harry thought it was Crouch sr. A clear hint to the fake-Moody, omitted and as fake-Moody could talk Harry into lending the map to him this was awkward. (Now Lupid DID see Wormtail on the map during year #3). - Mrs Figg being a Squib who actually had to monitor Harry on Dumbledore's behalf was most of all left out. Her entry in the movie therefore made less sense. - I also wonder why the movies didn't reveal that Umbridge was the one who sent the Dementors after Harry in order to force him to use his magic, so the ministry could expel him for underage magic usage? In both the novels and the movie she does hint about it in Harry's hearing, but the movies never confirmed this. - And the story about Ariana Dumbledore was completely omitted, which is what I hated most of all. You see her portrait, but the true story was never revealed. It tells a lot about Dumbledore's character, and with Grindelwald being the main antagonist of the Fantastic Beasts series, this omission made even less sense.

It would require sets of four-hour films to do everything in the books. The limits of film exhibition and film audiences confine films to around three hours at a time. Something has to go, as the saying goes. Your tone of disappointment is conspiratorial. There is no harder more harrowing task in the field of creative writing than turning a book into a screenplay. WhIe I dislike some of what was done in the films and how the finale was presented. I cannot fault the cinematic presentations as they were re-written. There isn't a bad film in the series, but I would have also made other choices in my turn. The author did not seem terribly stricken with the presentation of the works in question. So what the audience is left with is a grand game of "What-if."

I just listen to the audiobooks these days and pretend it’s the movie in the background.

Hopefully the upcoming series will fix/include all the missing items. To include portraying the correct colors and mascot for Ravenclaw. Blue and Bronze are the colors and the mascot is the Golden Eagle. The Golden Eagle is known for it's black (or raven) claws.

The Quidditch World Cup biggest omittance was Ludo Bagman's role not missing the match although it would be cool.

Snapes's character wrong adaption is the MAIN and the WORST deviations. Others in the list is hardly play a role compared to that as for me. However i want to add few more: 1. Absence of Winky and Dobby and their role in events taking in Goblet of fire; 2. Trelony role and the Prophecy text were not revealed

Like the fact that snape was ok with tom riddle killing james and harry as long he spared Lilly.

I know people wanted more of Voldemort's background, but they could only put so much in the film. JK Rowling said it herself it is a story about love, but not a romance story. Lilly's love for Harry saved him. Voldemort couldn't stand to touch Harry's mind because of it and his love for Ginny that kept him going up until the final battle. Even Snape's love for Lilly. We already knew Voldemort was the big bad evil guy, but if you cut out the romantic pairings then in the end when Harry and Ginny kiss you'd be like "Where the heck did that come from!?!". Also it doesn't help that Bonnie had almost 0 chemistry with Daniel as she said she sees him like a big brother. I hope the new series follows the books better.

The half blood prince was actually my favorite film

Marauders deserve their own miniseries

The memories of Riddle were what made the 6th book my favorite. And yes, the romance stuff was overblown and, more importantly, all wrong. I wanted that moment in the book for Ginny and Harry.

CinemaTherapy had a fair point of book vs movie Snape. Had they stuck with the book version we'd have a movie mostly about abuse of schoolkids. Audiences were unlikely to tolerate it.

I would have loved seeing the silver hand 🖐️ strangle worm tail that shouldn't have been changed

I really hated the way that the film ended Voldemort

This could easily be a list of 50

for me i understand some things have to change for it to fit in a movie so I have two main things that to be feel like oh come one and instantly come to mind. Watching this others totally made sense for the list but these are the two that popped into my head. first in movie six they should have take time to at least mention they are learning silent spell casting or it goes from movie one "it is all about proper and precise pronunciation" to at the end where they are basically doing magical guns with their wand. second him breaking the wand and not even healing his own wand! I mean if the elder wand could be destroyed that easily dumbledore would have either done it himself of told someone, or multiple someones, to make sure it was broken in half when he died to make sure voldemort couldn't get it. Normal wands aren't something casually destroyed. i mean even rons wand was still technically usable from that car crash with the womping willow and his was a hand me down wand of normal power and the elder wand was the strongest one. And it destroyed the little thing about harry wanting to be himself and not just grab onto power.

But Voldemort has the blood of Harry's mother this meaning he himself continues the blood protection so Harry's continued living at the Dursleys was unnecessary

I love Harry Potter and witchcraft and wizards

#7 I actually think Voldemort's movie death makes more sense. Spells often don't survive the death of the caster unless something is acting as a glue to keep it working. Voldemort's soul is the most obvious glue for his new body after Wormtail is killed. Voldemort's soul was likely all that really held him together and it was being eroded away with the destruction of every Horcrux. Each of the Horcruxes seems weaker than the last so it's a pretty safe guess they each got half of whatever was left in Voldemort, with the first(the book) getting 50% Voldemort's soul and Harry getting 0.390625 of soul. In the end after Harry's piece was destroyed the last was 0.78125 of soul in Nagini, with her death there was only a bit of willpower to keep that body together. I actually think it's also the real reason he couldn't be the master of the Elder wand. The Elder wand only allows it's self to be mastered by the most powerful. Draco was in fact in that moment more powerful than a dying Dumbledore, and Harry was more powerful than him but Voldemort missing most of his soul did not rate as far as the Elder wand thought.

Heres what I dont understand. Every bad thing in the movies happened because Voldemort was afraid of death and dying. Why? For us in the real world it makes sense. Theres a million religions and sects trying to define the afterlife, ghost stories, mediums, but nothing is definitive proof. But for Voldemort, he gets to talk to ghosts all the time, his family ring holds the stone of resurrection, and paintings can eventually learn to contain an ersatz copy of someones personality to carry on when they are gone. Buddy, you know there is an afterlife wizards go to, you even know there's an execution veil where you can hear spirits on the other side. What is your holdup? I cant even 😮 I feel like most peoples fear of death stems from the unknown after life or the uncertain fear of complete nonexistence once consciousness ends. What's his excuse? That he wants to keep meddling in the affairs of the mortal realm forever? Ghosts who linger find their own quirky hobbies and social greets, and ghosts on the other side just watch us and cease to have any real incentive to care beyond events that affect immediate living family. When anyone uses the stone of resurrection, you get the impression that spirits tend to be prompt with their unfinished business and dont really want to linger in phase between worlds or be bothered with mortal affairs. To take this a step further, in Stephen Kings Doctor Sleep when the spirit of Dick Halloran is brought to our realm with Dannys shine or when he possesses the freshly deceased body of an old woman to give a warning, you get the impression that once a spirit passes over, it takes a great deal of energy, lot of stress and effort to reach out to the living, and they seem really happy to cease the contact and go back to their realm as soon as possible. The point I mean to make is once Voldemort dies (provided he didnt shatter his soul in the first place), he wont care about what goes on in the wizarding world, he'll be as happy being dead as the rest of the spirits.

I say good luck witht the new channel. It is hard to break into it when they have a few huge channels already. I do hope your not using ai voices. I know some voiceactors who have their likeness stolen for these kind of videos. I dont think you are, but just stating it

I really hope that we get a good/great show out of it based off the books and not a F**K up show like so many others when they try do something based from a book/Game/Anime/Cartoon. when they don't know the story at all but think J.K will be around all the time so hopefully it goes well

My favorite divination from the book was when Profesor Trewloney saw the grim in Harry's cup

personally elfs didnt need free'd TERRIBLE ark in the books... an of all things a bucky not so pretty woman doing ti only felt like the blind leading the deaf..

I think the movie made up for all these deviations with the, "I'm sorry Professor, but I must not tell lies."

The last duel with Voldemort was such a disappointment. In the book Harry destroys his image infront of everyone, shows no respect, explains things, humiliates him, shows how limited Voldemort actually is. And Voldemort dies like any other human, final proof that he’s not special. Not this slap-kick beat down in the movie. Like, why?

The films were pretty much rubbish with the exception of the outstanding adult cast, let's face it. Doesn't help that they had a trashy soap director in charge.

I've never read the books nor have I seen much of the movies, but ... did you really want to see a 10-15 minute greenscreen sequence of a bunch of kids playing some bogus "sport" with rules that make no sense? Cutting it was clearly the objectively right decision; there's no way they could have filmed anything that would have lived up to what people were hoping to see and it just would have cost a lot and been a disappointment.