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"Harry Potter" The magical world that was not made into a movie [Mizumaru Kawahara's CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.51]
After Mr. Lockhart and the Magical Hospital
In " Order of the Phoenix ," which depicts the fifth grade, facilities in the magical world other than the school appear, and the inside view of the world is suddenly revealed. One is the Ministry of Magic, the government agency that oversees the wizarding world in England, and the other is St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Diseases and Injuries, a major hospital for the wizarding world. The Ministry of Magic naturally appeared in the movie as it is the main focus of the story, but it seems that there was no room to directly depict the hospital.
The Ministry of Magic is located in a fairly large space underground, while the hospital is located above ground, ostensibly in a closed department store building. If you state your business to the Mannequin displayed beyond the shop window, you can pass through the glass and enter, but the Muggles passing by will not pay attention to you. I also like the setting in which a magical society is hidden in a forgotten place in a normal town that you don't pay attention to. What's nice about it is that it doesn't have any special entrance, like a mirror, a hollow tree, or a closet, but is hidden quietly in the seemingly boring crowd of real life.
Harry and his friends go to the hospital to visit Ron's father, Arthur, who was injured by Voldemort's serpent, but after visiting, they wander into the isolation ward for "spell-induced injuries," where they unexpectedly encounter You will meet the person again. Gilderoy Lockhart, a former professor at Hogwarts.
Lockhart appeared in Chamber of Secrets and was played by Kenneth Branagh in the film. A writer who became popular for his adventure stories in which he encountered various creatures of darkness, and was invited to Hogwarts to teach ``Defense Against the Dark Arts'' due to his experiences, but in reality he used the forgetting technique to read other people's memories. It was discovered that he was a charlatan who had stolen his experience and achievements. Harry tries to erase Harry and Ron's memories after learning the secret, but Ron's wand that he stole was broken, so the spell backfires and erases his own memories. Kenneth Branagh's character is wonderful as a flirtatious handsome man who expresses himself with big words. His timidity in the face of a real crisis was also a nice touch.
After losing his memory to the point where he didn't even know who he was, he was hospitalized at St. Mungo's. When he appears in front of Harry and friends for the first time in three years, he is completely harmless, but he is aware that he is handsome and that apparently everyone wants his Signs. He seemed to be there, and was trying to Signs for Harry and the others the whole time. Harry doesn't feel pity for someone who was so close to erasing his memory. This kind of dryness is part of the charm of Harry (or rather, most of the characters who appear in this work).
Of course, Lockhart does not appear again in movies that do not depict hospitals. However, clues to Lockhart's future in the film can also be found in Chamber of Secrets. In a brief scene after the end credits, Lockhart's latest book ``Who Am I?'' is displayed in a bookstore, and Lockhart is seen wearing a straitjacket and looking blankly in a close-up view of the author. Of course, it's a bit of a gag, but it can also be seen as one of the few fragments that stirs the imagination of the magical hospital scene that wasn't filmed (I'm not sure if a straitjacket is necessary just because of the amnesia).
Harry and his friends meet more than just cheerful patients willing to Signs for everyone. They encounter classmate Neville Longbottom and his grandmother in the same ward, which indicates that Neville's parents are admitted there. The Longbottoms, who once fought against dark wizards, were tortured to the point of insanity by Voldemort's men, and now they lie in their bed, little more than empty shells.
Neville, who has not told anyone about his parents, feels awkward about the unexpected encounter, and Harry, who already knows about Neville's parents, sympathizes with him because his parents were killed by Voldemort. It was a sad yet warm scene of him trying not to attract the attention of his friends. Neville's background is not portrayed much in the movie, and it is a shame that the fact that Harry and Neville were actually paired was not explored.
I think it's difficult to pick up every bit of the original Harry Potter content in a movie where time and content are limited. Even if it were possible, the cohesiveness of the video might be lost. Even as it stands now, I sometimes feel a little rushed, as elements that couldn't be cut out of the story appear for just the last possible length.
If you read the original work, you will be able to see the finer details of things that were only glimpsed in the video or were a little difficult to understand, and you will be able to learn about the magical world that was not fully depicted in the movie, so if you like the movie, I would like people to try out the original work as well. There's a charm to both the images brought to life by living actors and creators, and the original stories that are carefully woven into connections in the details, and it's a blessing to be able to enjoy the same story twice.
Illustrations and text: Mizumaru Kawahara
Born in 1991. Illustrator. In addition to illustrations and covers for magazines and books, there are also illustration columns for movies and books. New movie reviews are currently being serialized in "SPUR" (Shueisha).
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