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Post #294272

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wmgan
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - my fan screenplay
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Date created
1-Aug-2007, 7:16 PM
I have no problem with things getting changed and moved around (as you can see from my own screenplay of Hallows) but I feel there was a lot of information in the novel that (I thought) was important but that the filmmakers didn't even attempt to convey. Also, I think the movie was too short. Both the Azkaban and Phoenix movies could have benefited from an extra 15-30 minutes of clarifying dialogue and other stuff.

In any case, the time travel aspect of Azkaban always bothered me. I think making time travel a possibility in Harry's world was the single worst mistake that Rowling made in the series, because that leads to the question -- why didn't Aurors USE them to stop Voldemort before he gained power? Or, if they were a recent invention and they couldn't go back too far, why not go back and stop Voldemort from coming back in GoF? Etc. etc. I love stories about time travel but only if that's the driving force behind the story (like Back to the Future, Lightning by Dean Koontz, etc.). Otherwise, introducing that factor tends to muddle things up.