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They give much more information on the details of being a werewolf than in the books,
before it is explained by Lupin. You see a little bit of what is under a dementors hood. Harry and
Lupins conversations are much too often outdoors and that isnt very good considering how
strict everyone is about Harry leaving the school at all. There is clearly a bit of romance they try
to indicate between Ron and Hermione that wasnt in the book at all. Harry, Ron and Hermione
didnt see each other in Honeydukes, but rather when he messed with Draco.
Hermione doesnt ever yell at Harry for sneaking into Hogsmeade, which is very out of
character and Draco never sees Harrys head floating. Harry also finds out that Sirius is Harrys
godfather by going into the room with his invisibility cloak on, rather than hiding behind a table.
His patronus is much stronger, earlier in the movie than it was in the book. Since they never had
the seen where malfoy sees Harrys floating head, they end up having a scene where Harry
goes searching for Peter Pettigrew, who he sees on the Marauders Map and is caught by
Snape and has the discussion he would have had if he had been a floating head.
Ron also happens to never have seen Sirius in the Gryffindor boys room. Professor
Trelawney doesnt make her true prediction during tests but after Harry comes to return an orb.
Hermione slaps Malfoy without any provocation in the film unlike the novel, where he provokes
them all a great deal. In the movie the didnt use the invisibility cloak when they visited Hagrid
before Buckbeaks execution. Crookshanks also had a less of a role in the movie, like the fact
that he wasnt there when they found out that Sirius was innocent. They never even reference to
the secret keeper or truly explain what a dementors kiss was. As far as Im aware, they never
actually say that Lupin, James, Pettigrew and Sirius were Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs
and that Harrys father was an animagus as well, although it was revealed in the novel.
Hermione and Ron werent there when Harry got a dementors kiss in the movie, but
they were in the book. Also in the movie but not the book, Ron was awake when Dumbledore
told Hermione to use the time turner. The film has Hermione figure out that Dumbledore wanted
them to save Buckbeak, instead of Harry figuring it out and this is actually something I think is a
good change, because its much more fitting to their personality. In the movie, Harry and
Hermione had to run from Lupin when he was a werewolf were as in the novel, after his initial
turn we dont seen as a wolf again. Harry finds out from Lupin himself that he resigned in the
movie unlike in the book when he found out from somebody else. Harry also got the firebolt after
he talked to Sirius in the movie and they never showed that they won the Quidditch Cup, which I
think is a very significant thing to leave out.
All in all I will say that despite the many changes I could find in the movie, it still held the
spirit and story together very nicely and honestly did a wonderful job of capturing this amazing
story onto a screen. I dont know if they could have done a better job with the cast or script and
Im amazed at how true to the book this movie really was. If I had to rate the book I would give it
5 out of 5 stars, and as for the movie I would give it 4 out of 5 stars, on account of the missing
Quidditch Cup and few other things here and there.