Differences between the books and the movies >.< - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Reviews

I decided I was going to read the books before the movie comes out. I have already read It of course, but I wanted to go over what I already knew, and made sure that I would understand everything in the movie...apparently that was a bad idea. The movie really disappointed me. They left out stuff that should not have been left out, granted the book is 900 pages long and you can't turn a 900 page book into a movie and expect every last detail in the book. But I believe that none of the people who were working on the movie, as in directing it, and writing it, read the 6th Harry Potter book, which should have been done. They would have known what to leave out and what should not have been left out and what they should NOT have changed. They added scenes into the movie, which...were not even part of the book. It was utterly disappointing. My first problem is Delores Umbridge. In the Book, I HATED her. I loathed her. And I new the kind of character she was. She was purely evil. Every part in the book that had her in it, you cringed and wanted to kill her. For those who have never read the book and just went to see the movie...I feel sorry for them. Umbridge didn't have ANY of the emotional aspects that she had in the book. There could have been a lot more done to her character. She was not nearly hated as much as she should have been. In the room of requirements, they changed a whole scene around. She NEVER caught all of the students. She ONLY caught Harry. I understand why she had Draco catch Cho that part fit in fine, but having the entire DA caught did not need to happen. Secondly, the scenes they added, and they took out. It's ridiculous. I have always kept in mind that they can not turn a 900 page book into a movie fully. I understand that, it would be near impossible, however adding scenes...when they could have just re arranged the scenes, first off in the RIGHT order, and they could have put scenes in those parts that the book actually had. For instance when Harry randomly met Luna in the forest, that scene could have been turned into the Care of Magical Creatures class. That shouldn't have been easily avoided. The movie never explained fully that Ron, Hermione and Ginny could never see the Thestrals, they said it once, but then just randomly threw them on a Thestrals and went off to London...they never explained that Neville could see them as well. It really irked me, that scene. The writers left out that Severus Snape, actually understood what Harry was saying when he said "They have padfoot...in the place that is hidden". In the book, Sanpe understood it 100%. But they just played it off as he had no idea. When in the 6th book, that's going to be a very important thing. The writer changing the ending around completely is what got me so outrageously mad. Neville Longbottom Drops the prophecy and no one heard it. That is what happened in the book. And that is what should have happened in the movie. Harry hearing the prophecy, and also handing over the prophecy to the Death Eaters should NOT have happened. That is changing the movie around completely. I understand, they have rights to the movies. However, they shouldn't have done that. You never find out that it was actually Trelawney that made the prophecy to Dumbledoor. And they never explain Neville could have had the fate that Harry Potter has. The ending scene, which should have been the most important scene in the movie, did not do the book justice at all. A scene that should not have been left out was when Hermione convinced Rita Skeeter to go to the Three Broom Sticks, and interview Harry about what happened in his fourth year. It would have had more of an emotional point to the movie. I think that is what my problem is with this movie. It was choppy. It only touched on what the writers thought were the "important" aspects of the movie. And the characters did not really have any lines. They barley talked in this movie. The longest monologue that was in it was when Umbridge was talking to the students when they were at the feast. The fifth book was my favorite out of the series; it was the best in my eyes, because of the emotional side. Harry, Ron and Hermione have grown into themselves. They all have more emotions and they have changed. Harry is angered all the time and when he is screaming, yelling, thrashing stuff and breaking possessions of Dumbledoor's the movie only had him get quiet and sullen which makes no sense. And left a VERY good feel of what the character was going through. He had just lost the closest thing to a relative they could have easily made him more mad. The one scene, however that I found was really good and really good acting was when Harry was being possessed by Voldermort, in the Ministry. Daniel did a very good job with the acting. I felt that he was being possessed and that he was trying to control the boy. There were some really funny parts to this movie, it wasn't all bad. Some of the scenes that they had added in were fairly creative and well thought. But after watching the Goblet of Fire, I suppose it could have been managed. The Goblet of Fire was only less the 700 pages and they fit almost everything into the movie. I and I know a lot of other fans didn't expect the movie to be the shortest one out of them all even though it is the longest book. The movie was a 138 minutes, it is 20 minutes shorter then the Goblet of Fire, and even the Sorcerers Stone. It's an entire half and hour shorter then the Chamber of Secrets! It's not as if they didn't have enough money either. The Goblet of Fire ranged somewhere around 3.5 Billion dollars. They could have easily made it to be the longest one out of the 4 they have made so far. I don't think the movie fit with the book in the least. They left out scenes and parts of the book that is going to play a roll into the 7th book coming out in a week. I feel sympathy for all of those who do not read the books, and do not get to understand what a genius J.K Rowling really is. How her books explain more then the movies will ever do.