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This Harry Potter Tribute Will Make You Cry Over Harry Potter. Again.

by Jill Pantozzi | 6:00 pm, February 4th

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It took me less than 50 seconds to start tearing up over this fan-made tribute to the Harry Potter series. “Creating this tribute was easily one of the most simultaneously rewarding and draining things I’ve ever done. Most of the time, it absolutely killed me to not be able to include specific bits and moments in it,” said YouTube user and creator of the video, TheManBatman. “Of course, one also has to consider the ridiculousness of trying to cram over 16 hours of footage into 15, coherent minutes.” Safe to say there’s a few spoilers included.

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  • http://twitter.com/BunnyHugCat Corina Dee

    I don’t get it. The Harry Potter movies were bad. They didn’t respect their source material and in general, they felt like a montage instead of an actual movie. I just was so disappointed every time I went to the theatres. *shrug* I wish I liked them as much as other people, but they are just bad memories for me. 

  • http://twitter.com/camijosays Cami Jo

    It’s extremely hard to take a novel the scale of the HP books and 100% translate it to film. Sure they were at time disappointing but they brought a world that people who love the books to life in a new way and introduced many others to the magic.
    This is a tribute to the series as a whole. It’s not a tribute to the movies. Even if you don’t like the movies this is a lovely tribute to the STORY of Harry Potter itself. I didn’t see anything in the above video that wasn’t in the books. 
    I don’t think you can’t make a good tribute to a story by just showing book pages on a screen. The movie clips are simply a device.

  • Anonymous

    Someone else’s interpretation of a book is always going to be worse than yours. Fact. But I think it’s a bit much to say the movies didn’t respect the books, when J.K. Rowling was very much involved and approved the scripts. 

    I have a big pet peeve, and it’s people who complain about book adaptations. It comes off as snobby, like citing a scene that was missing or slightly wrong makes them superior film critics, or an esteemed member of a secret club. Really, all it does is make you not enjoy a movie you paid money for, and I don’t envy that. The LOTR movies were good, and complaining that they were awful because they didn’t include Tom Bomadil really leaves me speechless.

    Having both read HP and watched it every time on premiere day in full costume, I can happily say that the movies have given me something amazing as an HP fan. It’s brought us all together, to either complain together, or squee together. I agree that the books were better, and *parts* of the movies were bad, but I would never hate on the entire movie series, or anyone who merely uses clips of it to express their fandom.

  • Anonymous

     ”Having both read HP and watched it every time on premiere day in full
    costume, I can happily say that the movies have given me something
    amazing as an HP fan. It’s brought us all together, to either complain
    together, or squee together.”

    Yes, exactly.

    Although this video did make me tear up a little, it also made me reflect on the books and movies and whether they’ll hold up in future. Perhaps not. I suspect the whole Harry Potter phenomenon may be a ‘you had to be there’ kind of thing, and future generations may find they can’t see what all the fuss was about. (I’d be happy to be proved wrong, though.)

    But even if the books and films don’t achieve the status of lasting classics, it doesn’t matter. What will last is the experiences they gave us, the thrill and sadness of following the story, and the friendships made along the way. In the end, I find it’s the fan experience that matters more to me than the source material itself. Maybe that’s what being a fan really means?

  • http://www.facebook.com/JimmyTrappTheHeretic Jimmy Quentin Trapp

    Yes, J.K. Rowling helped along with the adaptation of the film series…didn’t respect the source material?

  • http://twitter.com/Riviare Kimberly

    I, for one, loved how the movies brought the books to life so well. The magic was amazing, and the actors all grew into their roles so well over the course of the series.

    There is also the cute bus scene that wasn’t in the books. I loved that one, and from what JK said in the commentary, so did she!

  • http://nmlop.tumblr.com/ nmlop

    This was great… I definitely teared up. Not until 12:00 or so though, I think in part because I just read that Mary Sue piece about Daniel Radcliffe’s drinking problem, and was trying to guess which scenes he was smashed during.

    Also, it was interesting at the end being reminded how the hair people just totally gave up on making Emma Watson’s hair even remotely large and bushy. Also, it made me sad that I’d forgotten Richard Harris played Dumbledore at first, it was disconcerting seeing him again suddenly at the end :(

    For the movies as adaptations, I think part of what’s so weird about them is that the later ones don’t really make sense if you haven’t read the books. I think that’s fair because almost everyone who’s going to see it has read the books, a gigantic number of people in general have read them, and obviously they did fine in box offices regardless. It’s just weird because normally even book adaptations make sense if you haven’t read the source material!