Books: Every spell has a specifically designed form and function. For example, Rictusempra is a Tickling Spell. Movies: Many spells - including Rictusempra, Expelliarmus, and the majority of spells cast at the Department of Mysteries in Order of the Phoenix - are indiscernible in effect beyond ‘FLASH-BANG-SOMEONE FLIES BACK TWENTY FEET.’
Movies: In
the beginning of Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry performs underage magic in the from of Lumos. He is later expelled for performing… underage magic.
Books: Non-verbal spells are difficult and take a long time to learn. Movies: Everyone seems to do them often and with little difficulty.
Books: Wandless magic is almost never shown at all, unless cast by accident or by a very powerful wizard. Movies: Hermione (and possible other characters) is shown doing wandless magic.
Books: Expecto Patronum produces an animal shaped avatar, which can charge down Dementors and the like. Movies: Sometimes they’re just a big burst of light. Sometimes they take animal form. Sometimes they do something indistinct and leave trails behind.
DEATH
Books: Avada Kedavra kills instantly and leaves an untouched corpse behind. Movies: Bellatrix Lestrange and Voldemort both appear to… explode. Despite the fact that previous victims of the same spell, in previous movies, did not explode.
CLOTHES
Books: Unlike the younger generation during vacation time, many wizards are portrayed as completely oblivious of Muggle clothing. Robes are the norm for school and work. Movies: Children and adults, Pureblood and Muggleborn alike, wear Victorian-style or modern Muggle clothing.
TRANSPORTATION
Books: Apparition is simple teleportation from Point A to Point B. Movies: There is a lot of unexplained SFX involved. Shwoop. Fwoop. Doop.
Books: Voldemort flies without a broom, to the shock and horror of the Order. Movies: Apparently all the Death Eaters can fly, and do so while trailing copious… black smoke?
Books: Hermione states approximately nine thousand times that Apparition inside Hogwarts is impossible. Movies: Except for Snape, apparently.
ANIMAGI
Books: Animagi change in and out of their animal forms with all of their clothes. Consistently. Movies: In Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban, McGonagall, Sirius, and Peter change into human form with clothes on. Then Peter changes into Wormtail and leaves his clothes behind. After which Sirius changes into Padfoot and his clothes transform with him. Then in Order of the Phoenix Sirius changes into human form sans clothes again. -_-’
WEREWOLVES
Books: Sirius knows that Lupin has no control over his transformation, and instantly tells the kids to run. Movies: Sirius very pointlessly urges Lupin to resist the change.
Books: A normal wolf with a few minor differences. Movies: Two-legged chihuahua of death.
DEMENTORS
Books: They wear hoods, glide across the ground, and cannot fly. Movies: They sometimes have hoods. Sometimes not. Sometimes they fly. Sometimes they do not.
PENSIEVES
Books: A Pensieve shows an individual’s memories and the surrounding setting. Movies: Snape’s memories in Deathly Hallows Part 2 somehow include events he was not present for.
FIRE-CALL
Books: It’s a person’s head popping out of the fire. That’s it. A fire, and their head. Movies: They did it twice, and both closer resembled Calcifer from Howl’s Moving Castle than a fire-call.
Still not over “two-legged chihuahua of death”
Reblogging because even though I skipped through the rest of this, I feel like I need to point this out.
When Harry got expelled, it was for preforming underage magic IN THE PRESENCE OF A MUGGLE.
When he was practicing Lumos at the beginning of “Prisoner of Azkaban”, it was under a blanket in an empty room. No non-magic folk were present, no one knew, and Vernon sure as hell didn’t see when he checked on Harry, he thought Harry was asleep.
One of the only underage laws for magic that I remember was “No magic is to be used in the presence of a Muggle”. Him practicing Lumos under the covers with no one to see was fine, no harm done if no Muggle knows, but using magic in front of Duddly was a violation of the law, even if Duddly already knew.
There also was no correlation to something that was contradicted in the book for this one, and I would like to point out that nearly the exact things that happened for this in the movies happened in the books. Nothing was really contradicted. Harry practises in the movie, Harry practices Lumos in the book. Harry gets expelled for magic in front of a Muggle in the movie, Harry gets expelled for magic in front of a Muggle in the book.
What I would like to go over is the Trace. The Trace should have had Harry reported and Expelled for using Lumos, in both the movie and the book. But it didn’t. The Trace is a part of another underage magic law that states that underage magic isn’t aloud at all. It confuses me that Harry got away with Lumos when the Trace should have quickly picked it up and reported him. Is there a loophole for first time offenders? Was this even Harry’s first underage magic offence? I would like to know.
And if my statements seem uninformed, it’s because I haven’t read or watched Harry Potter in half a year and I tend to forget things very easily.
Thanks for the commentary! :)
When Harry got expelled, it was for preforming underage magic IN THE PRESENCE OF A MUGGLE.
This is a bit tricky, but I don’t believe what you’ve said is quite accurate.
“We have received intelligence that a Hover Charm was used at your place of residence this evening at twelve minutes past nine. As you know, underage wizards are not permitted to perform spells
outside school, and further spellwork on your part may lead to expulsion
from said school. (Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage
Sorcery, 1875, Paragraph C).“ - Chamber of Secrets, Chapter Two
There also was no correlation to something that was contradicted in
the book for this one, and I would like to point out that nearly the
exact things that happened for this in the movies happened in the books.
Nothing was really contradicted. Harry practises in the movie, Harry
practices Lumos in the book.
Unfortunately, as far as I can recall, Harry does not practice Lumos in the book.
“It was nearly midnight, and he was lying on his stomach in bed, the
blankets drawn right over his head like a tent, a flashlight in one hand
and a large leather-bound book (A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot)
propped open against the pillow.“ - Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter One
The Trace is a part of another underage magic law
that states that underage magic isn’t aloud at all. It confuses me that
Harry got away with Lumos when the Trace should have quickly picked it
up and reported him.
“We have received intelligence that you performed the Patronus Charm at
twenty-three minutes past nine this evening in a Muggle-inhabited area
and in the presence of a Muggle.
“ - Order of the Phoenix, Chapter Two
“The charm that detects magical activity around under-seventeens, the way the Ministry finds out about underage magic! If you, or anyone around you, casts a spell to get you out of here, Thicknesse is going to know about it, and so will the Death Eaters.” - Deathly Hallows, Chapter Four
“So if you’re underage and you do
magic inside an adult witch or wizard’s house, the Ministry won’t know?” / “They
will certainly be unable to tell who performed the magic,” said
Dumbledore, smiling slightly at the look of great indignation on Harry’s
face. “They rely on witch and wizard parents to enforce their
offspring’s obedience while within their walls.” - Half-Blood Prince, Chapter Seventeen
xoxo
*wheezing* THEY CALLED MOONY A TWO LEGGED CHIHUAHUA OF DEATH!!!! 😂
(Thanks you talking-bird-jessie for suggesting this scene from Order of the Phoenix!)
Reblogging because this is beautiful and totally should’ve been in the movie
Why are moments like this not in the movies? :’(
I have this headcanon that after Neville proposed to Hannah Abbott, he went to his parents at St. Mungo’s and sat with them. Even though he was sure she wouldn’t understand or remember, he held his mother’s hands and told her, “I’m getting married, Mum. She’s great. You’ll really like her.” Alice just hummed and stared off into the distance. No reaction. Neville still stayed, telling his parents all about Hannah and their plans, and how she wanted so badly to come meet them and he would bring her next time.
Then, as he put his hand on the door handle to leave, he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Alice. She held out her hand as she had done so many times before. Expecting a candy wrapper, Neville held out his hand but felt something heavier drop into it.
When he looked down, there were two rings. And when he glanced to his mother’s hand, there was an indent where her wedding ring had once rested but was no longer there.
