Though the Burrow is attacked by Death Eaters during the Christmas on the big screen, that never happens in the book.The story of the pureblood Gaunt family-Voldemort's descendants-is cut from the film.After Draco leaves Harry unconscious on Hogwarts Express, Tonks finds him in the novel-but it's Luna in the film.In the book, Bill and Fleur are living at The Burrow planning their wedding, and Fleur clashes with Mrs.Harry inherited Grimmauld Place and Kreacher in the book after Sirius Black's death.
In the book, Voldemort kills Quirrell by leaving his head, but in the film, Harry kills Quirrell by touching his face.The Sorting Hat sings a song before every ceremony-but not in the movie.In the novel, Harry met Draco Malfoy and rejected his friendship in Diagon Alley, but in the film, this happens at Hogwarts before the Sorting Hat ceremony.In the film, the snake Harry speaks Parseltongue to at the zoo is a Burmese Python-but in the book, it's a Boa Constrictor.The movies never mention Hagrid's motorbike was once Sirius Black's.Aunt Petunia and Dudley are blonde, but in the films, they're brunette.
Because even though the Triwizard Tournament is way too intense for anyone (let alone teenagers) to be involved in, it is still a school-sanctioned event and all. In the book, fighting a dragon was scary enough, so he stayed within the arena and used his flying skills and a well-played Accio spell to get the egg from the dragon. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets director Chris Columbus had been too safe and juvenile, while Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón went a bit too off book (remember the talking shrunken head on the Knight Bus?).
Don't get too jealous, everybody.īut I just KNEW the movie was going to be the best yet. What I got was Rupert Grint waving from a limo, and a glimpse of Robert Pattinson and Katie Leung walking away from the theater. I didn't get to see the movie, but I had plans of meeting Daniel Radcliffe and crew afterwards. In all the Potter-movie excitement, it's important to go back to our HP roots and compare the first real game-changing Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, to its movie counterpart.Īs a serious Potterhead, I "attended" the NYC premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire back in 2005. Rowling posting new stories and updates from the Quidditch World Cup on Pottermore to coincide with the real World Cup, it's the perfect time to indulge in a Harry Potter marathon.
The World Cup final airs on Sunday, but there's another exciting TV event happening this weekend for the more literary-minded - ABC Family's Harry Potter Weekend movie marathon.