Deathly Hallows as it should have been: a more focused, entertaining and magical finale that combines both parts into one big, epic conclusion to the Harry Potter franchise!
INSPIRATIONS
- Spence’s edit
- Harry Potter and the Hunt for Horcruxes by tremault
- The 90 Minute Wicked Edition by AEmovieguy
- The Harry Potter: Revisited series by Anjohan
- The Almighty Editions by almightycutie
PRELIMINARY CUT LIST
- Overall colour correction (Green tinge reduced/brighter picture)
- Rescore several scenes with classic John Williams, sourced from The John Williams Collection by La-La Land Records
- Add Harry & Petunia deleted scene
- Add Ron & Arthur radio deleted scene
- Remove “Part 1” from the title
- Cut Pius’ introduction
- Cut Voldemort raising his wand before he kills Charity Burbage
- Move the mirror shard reveal to later
- Tighten the motorbike chase
- Cut George’s “I’m holey” joke
- Cut Harry trying to leave the Burrow
- Cut Ron’s line, “Brilliant. What is it?”
- Cut all references to Bathilda Bagshot and Godric’s Hollow
- Cut Aunt Muriel at the wedding
- Cut Hermione’s line, “That’ll be the books.”
- Recut the café fight and aftermath
- Cut Hermione teaching Ron piano
- Tighten the entire Ministry of Magic sequence for pacing, urgency and tension
- Add deleted scene discussing the locket
- Cut Hermione and the Snatchers
- Create new exodus montage, based on old test clips by AEmovieguy
- Cut Ron leaving
- Cut Harry and Hermione dancing
- Cut Hermione’s line about staying in the forest and growing old together
- Cut the subplot of Harry’s wand breaking
- Cut Harry and Ron discussing the Deluminator
- Cut Harry asking about Luna at the Lovegood residence
- Cut the awkward tea drinking with Xenophilius
- Cut Ron’s line, “Mum always said ‘midnight’.”
- Shorten the Snatcher chase to be slightly more understandable
- Recut Dobby’s death
- Move Voldemort finding the Elder Wand to follow the Malfoy Manor sequence
- Trim conversation with Ollivander to avoid redundancy
- Add Harry & Luna deleted scene
- Trim the Gringotts bank heist sequence for pacing and humour
- Restore unused piece of music when Ginny enters the Room of Requirement
- Restore unused piece of music during Snape’s speech in the Great Hall
- Cut Slytherin house being sent to the dungeons
- Add Lupin & Tonks deleted scene (green screen fixed)
- Recut the Fiendfyre sequence
- Cut Voldemort and Lucius at the boathouse
- Add Voldemort’s theme from Philosopher’s Stone before he uses Sectumsempra on Snape
- Trim Snape’s demise by removing one of Nagini’s bites (might leave it in)
- Change young Lily’s eyes to blue
- Cut Harry saying goodbye to Hermione and Ron on his way to the Forbidden Forest
- Cut Narcissa checking to see if Harry is dead
- Cut the awkward Voldemort/Draco hug
- Resequence the final battle to be more exciting
- Recut the Molly/Bellatrix duel
- Many, many small changes throughout!
Special thanks to Anjohan for his kind and encouraging words!