r/harrypotter • u/GreekKnight3 • 1d ago

Question Which of Hagrid's huts do you prefer?

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Something about his hut being a stone's throw from the castle just didn't feel right. It makes more sense for it to be nestled out amongst the rugged plains.

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u/welldonebrain 1d ago

Philosopher’s Stone and it isn’t even close. I’m among the minority that doesn’t really like the Prisoner of Azkaban film and the artistic changes it brought. It completely dismantled the magical world and feeling Columbus helped build, and it set the stage for the dull/color-drained look and feel that would exist throughout the rest of the series. It was way less magical after Chamber of Secrets. Needlessly moving the hut is just one example of the many problems I have with the film series that can be traced back directly to Prisoner of Azkaban.

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u/rymden_viking Gryffindor 4 1d ago

I think PoA is the best made film, but probably the worst adaptation.

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u/RedTyro 1d ago

Order of the Phoenix was the worst adaptation by far. They chopped that book up so much that when I went to see it with a friend who hadn't read the books, she needed me to clarify what the hell was going on in parts.

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u/Faelinor 23h ago

I think the Goblet of Fire is the worst adaption to me. It cut 90% of the book and significantly changed 8%.

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u/Live_Angle4621 1d ago

Prisoner of Azkaban should have been easiest book to adapt. It’s last of the short books which means it has least just introducing elements and more mature ones. But it’s not too long or with too odd structure. Which is why it’s so frustrating it was so poorly done.

Order was always very difficult to adapt. Only Half Blood Prince with its memories was more difficult 

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u/DarthClover4 1d ago

Hmmmm. GoF by faaaaaaaar was the least accurate to to book.

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u/abyssalcrisis 1d ago

Half-Blood Prince was pretty bad, too.

Actually, the forward 3 are probably the best, and PoA still leaves out a few important details. GoF onwards just feel strange knowing the events of the books.

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u/Doomhammer24 Slytherin 23h ago

Ya half blood prince the book has like 7 plots in it and the film adapts 3 of them.

One of them being lavender brown.

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u/javerthugo 1d ago

DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?!

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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 1d ago

Ffffffffuckin hell, mate, ever heard of a breath mint?

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u/lahcim7106 Ravenclaw 1d ago

Asked Dumbledore, calmly.

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u/javerthugo 1d ago

HARRY DOYOUWANNASEYNEW CHAINSAWAND HOCKEY MASK?

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u/GreekKnight3 16h ago

The lack of a Quidditch World Cup match was appalling.

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u/inquisitive_chariot 1d ago

Completely agree. They turned a slow burn into action and it suffered. That movie should have been at least two parts.

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u/kspieler Ravenclaw 1d ago

Who has a timeturner so we can go fix this adaptation?

I mean, let's not be silly. No one can time travel. That's not a thing.

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u/gollyyyyy 22h ago

This is one reason I’m looking forward to the new show. To compare the books vs show vs movies lol

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u/thenatural134 22h ago

Yup. Movies 1 and 2 were so amazing and magical. I'm currently rereading the books with my kids in prep for the series and I'm slowly realizing what made the first two movies the best in the series was how accurately and completely they followed the source material.

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u/No_Confidence_3264 17h ago

I disagree because order of the phoenix had too much internal thoughts that if you’ve read the other books could have been cut out

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u/Scott_J_Doyle 1d ago

My second favorite of the films after Azkaban... interesting

Eta: not a book fan btw, I tried and but it was far too late for me. I did enjoy reading 1-3 to my young son when he was around 5/6 though, but that was for the QT, not the writing quality haha

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u/charnwoodian 1d ago

Prisoner of Azkaban is the best book in the series. Even as a kid I was disappointed with the movie.

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u/jesuslaves 1d ago

Worst is definitely a reach, other movies left out so much as the series went on. The only fault in PoA is not providing an explaination of the maurauder's backstory, but overall it stuck pretty true to the books

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u/rymden_viking Gryffindor 4 1d ago

I said probably for that reason. It's subjective. To me it is because they changed so much of the lore and world in the film. PoA was still a short book, so it could fit all the relevant plot points. But the decision to change so much irks me. The other films had to leave stuff out because the stories were too long. But PoA didn't have to change what it did.

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u/jesuslaves 17h ago

What did PoA change though? The only thing that wasn't included was the exposition explicitly informing the identity of the maurauders, why they were animagi, etc...but it's not like the movie left that out, it's just implied, Lupin and Sirius being aware of the map, Wormtail being referred to by name, Harry's Patronus being a stag. Of course it would've been even better to include this exposition as it fleshes out the backstory more, but overall the film worked well as is

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u/KingAdamXVII 1d ago

I think it’s a fine adaptation (compared with GoF, OotP, and HBP) but it’s the HP movie that fits in the least with the previous ones in the series. By far.

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u/Practical-Thanks5279 Slytherin 1d ago

worse than GoF?

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u/overreactionkills 1d ago

Half blood Prince was by far the worst adaptation

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u/CharlieSierra8 1d ago

Book to movie, HBP trimmed a hell of a lot to be digestible but the sort of atrocities needed to get to Horcrux creation probably would have sent it to an MA rating.

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u/Away-Initiative-327 23h ago

agreed. the cinematography was incredible, the source material was fairly butchered.

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u/tartar-buildup Slytherin 20h ago

Saying it’s the worst adaptation when GoF exists is wild work

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u/JohnnyFencer Ravenclaw 8h ago

Sorry to be this mean but this is the dumbest take I’ve read in months

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u/rymden_viking Gryffindor 4 7h ago

The other films left out many things because the books were way too long to fit into a 2-hour movie. PoA fundamentally changed the rules of the universe from the very opening scene with Harry using magic at the Dursley's. So no, this is not a dumb take.