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ghost-of-bambi:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - BOOK

Dumbledore: This one time, Harry, your father saved Snape’s life.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - MOVIE

*no mention of such event*

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - BOOK

Sirius: Harry, I did this really douchey thing once, and I tried to have Remus kill Snape, but your father heard about it and rushed off to save his life.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - MOVIE

*no mention of such event*

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - BOOK

*Harry goes into Pensieve and sees James and Sirius picking on Snape very unfairly - Lily intervenes - Snape cuts James’s face open - James does a dick move - Lily gets pissed - Snape calls Lily a Mudblood for absolutely no reason whatsoever - Lily leaves them to it - James gears up for another dick move*

Snape: *interrupting* GTFO, BITCH!

Harry: HOLY SHIT MY FATHER WAS AN ASSHOLE! *warm and fuzzy illusions ruined*

Sirius and Remus: What up?

Harry: You guys. My Dad was an asshole.

Sirius and Remus: OMG NO! HARRY, SERIOUSLY! Look, James was an immature prat when he was a teenager and he did horrible things and WE’RE NOT DENYING IT and everyone regrets how they acted back then, but he grew up and became a better person and he was a great man, I swear. And it wasn’t like Snape was innocent because he was really mixed up in Dark Arts and James HATED Dark Arts so much.

Harry: But my Mum hated him omg.

Sirius and Remus: Dude don’t even worry about that it’s cool, she totally didn’t.

Harry: Okay.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - MOVIE

*Harry breaks into Snape’s memory in a way that isn’t really possible for somebody who can’t do Legilimency and sees James bullying the shit out of Snape and being the biggest dick in the world*

Harry: ….. my father was an asshole.

*nobody contradicts him*

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - BOOK

*Harry looks into the Pensieve and sees how Snape was in love with Lily but drove her to abandoning their friendship after becoming heavily invested in the Dark Arts and planning to become a Death Eater, and then finally calling her a Mudblood even though Lily was his only friend, and this is a totally rational reason for Lily to break ties with him and we already know that James Potter was essentially a good guy so it makes so much sense that Lily would fall in love with and marry him*

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - MOVIE

*Harry looks into the Pensieve and sees that SNAPE AND LILY WERE SOULMATES OMG BUT THAT BASTARD JAMES POTTER TURNED UP OUT OF NOWHERE AND RIPPED THEM FROM ONE ANOTHER OMG IT’S SO SAD THEIR LOVE WAS TRUE AND NOW SNAPE’S HOLDING HER CORPSE LIKE A FUCKING CREEP BUT OMG SO SAD, GUYS*

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everythingharrypotter:

A new book, Harry Potter: Page to Screen, tells the story of the how the cult novels were turned into eight blockbuster movies. Here are some of our favourite facts from the book:

Confesssions

Director Mike Newell broke a rib fighting Oliver Phelps (who plays George Weasley) whilst trying to demonstrate how the twins should fight in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Newell reveals the result was that “I’d made a complete arsehole out of myself in front of four hundred children.”

During the filming of The Chamber of Secrets, Emma Watson had a huge crush on Tom Felton (who played Draco Malfoy.) “He must have known” she comments. “Poor Emma,” confirms Felton, “Of course I knew; it was obvious.”

When describing Robert Pattinson (who played Cedric Diggory and would of course go on to achieve mega-stardom as Edward Cullen in the Twilight series) Newell recalls him having “that sort of posh doom about him.”

When Watson made her grand debut, in a spectacular ball gown at the fourth film’s Yule Ball, she was so nervous she fell down the stairs on the first take.

Cast memories

On the night Daniel Radcliffe received the news he had been cast in the role that would change his life, his parents let him stay up and watch Fawlty Towers. “That was my treat” he said “Fawlty Towers is a good reward.”

Oliver and James Phelps (who play the Weasley Twins), are naturally brunettes. They originally auditioned, aged 14, in order to get a day off school.

During the scene in which Ron and Harry first meet, in a train carriage on the Hogwarts Express, Radcliffe and Grint had such a fit of the giggles that they had to shoot the scene separately.

Gary Oldman notes that playing Sirius Black was one of his most daunting roles to date. This was largely due to the fact that, to a certain extent, Oldman was playing himself: “This is pretty much the way I look”.

During the filming of Half-Blood Prince, James Phelps not only played Fred Weasley but became an assistant director on the film. Fellow actor Matt Lewis said: “I kept making him get me cups of tea.”

Whilst discussing a scene in which Dumbledore comments on a photograph of a woman, and reminisces about a girl he once knew, JK Rowling bent over and whispered to producer David Barron; “He wouldn’t say that. He’s gay.” Rowling then sent Michael Gambon (who replaced Harris as Dumbledore) a card, saying “Sorry for outing you.”

Secrets of the sets

Platform 93/4 was actually shot between platforms 4 and 5 in Kings Cross Station.

By the end of filming the second film, sixteen versions of the flying Ford Anglia had been built yet few remain intact.

The young Voldemort, seen for the first time in Half Blood Prince, is played by Ralph Fiennes’ own nephew, Hero Fiennes Tiffin.

Emma Watson gave set-designer Stephanie McMillan advice on how Hermione’s bedroom, eventually seen in The Deathly Hallows, should look: “Why are there not more books? I asked. There need to be books everywhere!”

Design and visual effects

Helena Boneham Carter adores her character’s costume and believes that Bellatrix Lestrange’s breasts should “almost have their own film credit.”

The book shows a sketch of Hogwarts that JK Rowling drew for production designer Stuart Craig on their first meeting. It is in blue biro, with a scribbled forest and a rather comical squid in the great lake.

Whilst animating Hagrid’s three-headed dog Fluffy, the CGI team created distinct personalities for each head. “One was alert, one was smart, and one was sleepy”, says visual effects supervisor Robert Legato. “The animators named each of them, to keep things clear.”

The cast remember the late Richard Harris (Professor Dumbledore in the first two films)

Daniel Radcliffe notes how Harris was fooled by the very lifelike animatronic Fawkes the Phoenix, mistaking it for a real bird.

When producer David Heyman visited Harris for the last time in hospital, he recalls the late actor’s unwavering humour. “Don’t you dare recast me” he said.

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