"Harry Potter" The magical world that was not made into a movie [Mizumaru Kawahara's CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.51]

Index

• Death day party and ghosts
• Winky and the House Fairy Welfare Promotion Association
• After Mr. Lockhart and the Magical Hospital

Death day party and ghosts

As someone who was exposed to the world of Harry Potter from the original work, even now that the visuals of the movie version have become synonymous with the worldview named ``Wizarding World'', I was still reading the books at the same time. I can't help but imagine the times, and the parts that were omitted in the movie version stand out in particular. The original work is quite thick, and it's amazing that it was captured so beautifully in the movie, but there are still many parts that were left out. There are a lot of small details in the main story, but I would like to introduce some that I personally feel are regrettable that were not made into a movie.

The original story of `` The Secret Room ,'' which depicts the second year of school, includes a scene in which a ghost celebrates the anniversary of its death at a ``death anniversary party,'' but unfortunately it was omitted from the movie. The 500th death anniversary party for Almost Headless Nick, Harry's closest ghost, was held on Halloween night, with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger as the only living guests. Although he is invited to a party for the dead held in a cold dungeon, there is no way he would feel comfortable there, and he ends up spending his time among the ghosts, feeling lost. Since it's a party full of ghosts, the gloomy and cheerful visuals were imagined.

Nick had a deep desire to join the prestigious ``Headless Hunting Club'' where decapitated people gather, but after being slashed 45 times with a dull ax, his head was finally removed with less than 1cm of skin remaining. Since he did not leave the torso, his eligibility for membership remained denied. So he invites the famous Harry Potter to a party, asks him to comment on what a terrifying "headless" ghost he is, and hopes he'll welcome him back to the club. .

However, the members of the ``Headless Hunting Club'' riding ghost horses stole the attention of the venue with their flashy appearance (the jockey holding his own head on Halloween night had a silhouette similar to ``Sleepy Hollow''). ), the leader, Lord Podmore, is not rude, but his dignified behavior hurts Nick's self-esteem (``Is your head still hanging there?''). Harry can't say anything nice, and Lord Podmore and the other members, who don't agree with Nick's wishes at all, start playing neck hockey on the spot and completely despise the host. It's a kind of parody of how class society continues even in the afterlife, but it's also a difficult story in which the disparity that is determined at the moment of death is even more helpless than that of the living, and Nick's pathos is also strange. Very vivid. In the movie version, ghosts tend to be depicted as a lively background similar to moving portraits, but the glimpse of this situation is one of the depths of the original work.

According to the original author, England has the most ghosts in the world, and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is where most of them gather. Other ghosts who had roles in the original story but did not appear in the film include Professor Binns, the history of magic teacher, and Biebs, the poltergeist. Professor Binns was an absent-minded person who had been teaching during his lifetime, but died of old age while falling asleep in front of the fireplace in the teacher's room, and continued teaching without realizing that he had become a ghost. In the original story, Professor McGonagall explains the legend of the Chamber of Secrets to the students, but in the film, Professor McGonagall takes on this role.

Biebs, a prankster who wears a clown costume, often messes up the castle, infuriating the castle manager, Filch, and often picking on Harry. One of the charms of the magic school was that it was haunted by many ghosts, so I feel a little sad that its depiction is kept to a minimum.

Winky and the House Fairy Welfare Promotion Association