Which Do you like better? The Harry Potter Books or the Movies and why?

Answer 1

Like the majority of people here, I'd have to say the books. The movies leave a lot of stuff out, but they also chance a lot of stuff too. People that have only seen the movies miss out on a whole lot. I have to give some credits to the movies though, there are some changes that made the story better than how it played out in the book.

SORCEROR'S STONE Movie
Changes I Liked Most - Having Harry, Hermione, and Ron scramble through the trap door when Fluffy wakes up, added a good piece of action. (In the book Harry just plays the wooden flute Hagrid gave him for Christmas to put Fluffy back to sleep.)

Changes I Hated Most - The part where Draco introduces himself to Harry occurs on the stairs in Hogwarts it fails to show the real animosity between the bullies and the heroes. (The encounter originally takes place on the Hogwart's Express and Draco, Crabb, and Goyle attack Harry and Ron once Harry "insults" Draco by declining his offer of friendship. The scuffle breaks up when Scabbers leaps from the folds of Ron's robes and starts biting Crabb (or mabye is was Goyle) and the three of them run off, not sure how many rats may be hiding in the cabin.)

CHAMBER OF SECRETS Movie
Changes I Liked Most - None.
Changes I Hated Most - Altering the scene in Flourish & Blots to include Hermione's parents so that Lucious Malfoy could make a passive threat against them to bait Aurthor Weasley and then not go into the fight. Plus the lame obvious way Lucious Malfoy slips Tom Riddle's diary in to Ginny's school things. (In the book Hermione's parents are in Gringots exchanging Muggle money for Wizard money, and Lucious Malfoy never threatens them. You get to really see how much contempt there is between Author Weasley and Lucious Malfoy when they acually get into a shoving match in Flourish & Blots that knock several books off the shelves and Ginny gets her stuff knocked from her arms during the scuffle. Lucious "helps" Ginny pick up her books and thats how he slips in Tom Riddle's diary.)

PRISONER OF AZKABAN Movie
Change I Liked Most - None.
Change I Hated Most - The way Harry got his Firebolt. (In the book he gets it shortly after his Nimbus 2000 gets smashed. No one knows who sent it. Rumors that Black sent it to kill Harry add more mystery and make Sirius more threatening.)

GOBLET OF FIRE Movie
Change I Liked Most - None.
Change I Hated Most - Revealing Barty Crouch Jr. from the very beginning. (It was so much better in the book when you had to piece things together from the clues in the story. I had no idea the first time I read it, but the clues popped out the second time.)

Answer 2

I a lot quite harry Potter then any sequence. i love the books, and that i'm nevertheless a freak considering that day one. i don't love the flicks that a lot though... Any action picture in holding with a e book, continually leaves out good factors. or perhaps my standerds are too severe. Twilight on the different hand, is an outstanding e book, no longer tremendous, yet good. I examine it, after eharing that it replaced into 'the ebst e book ever', the 'new HP' 'extra valuable then Potter' and an excellent type of alternative crap like that, in my opinion, that's not. it ought to easily be me though, I want theird human being (and JKR's writing type) to first human being. I belive that no longer something can take the position of harry potter, for most causes.HP will be examine, and reread for years, and years, and is extra proper for extra a at the same time as. that's been round extra (I advise the sequence took longer to style,) and there are diverse followers, that are basically impssible to get over. So... My answer is basically 'NO'. notwithstanding it really is my opinion... playstation . Please selection as proper answer? ;p

Answer 3

I love both but I like the books better. The books allow you to imagine the whole thing and put your own faces to the characters. Where as the movies put the faces and the actions to the characters. You also, get more when it comes to the relationships with the characters and more depth in the events of the stories. In the movies they can only put so much in because they don't want it to go to long and they don't want to loose any of the plot. These movies however, do stay close to the books and are very well done. I just like to put my own faces and picture things the way that I believe them to be.

Answer 4

Always, always and always, The books!!!
The HP movies have been pretty ok as far as portraying the story as close to the book as possible, but movies will leave out many details from the book or they change some part from the book to fit into the movie.

Any movie adaptation of the book will never compare to the book itself.

Answer 5

summerlin_f.. you're an idiot.
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the books because they have more information etc.

I still think JK Rowling shouldve gone with the original idea of having the BBC produce the books verbatim like a lengthy serial.

Each year at Hogwarts could be a season on TV for example. Plus special effects wouldnt be a problem. Alot of sci-fi/fantasty stuff has just as good if not, better FX than some movies.

Answer 6

I prefer the movies, because they have more detail.They have everything in the book explicitly described.Since the movies have time restrictions they have to leave a lot of the details out, they've even rearrange some of the events.For example, in the 3rd movie Harry gets his Firebolt at the end, & they don't say who sent it, when really he get's it before he even finds out who Sirius is & Hermione has McGonagal check it out for jinxs, thinking Sirius sent it.The books have a more compleat plot.There's more emotion.That's why I prefur the books, even thought I live the movies also.

Answer 7

The books without question. A movie is someones else's interpretation of the book. My imagination is my own. Besides they always leave out something when making a movie. Look at how they butchered "The Prisoner of Askaban"

Answer 8

the book because its so much more detailed. i they dont have quidditch for all the harry potter movie except the first 1.
but i still enjoy watching the movies

Answer 9

The Books, like all book-film adaptations the book will allways be better. The books adds more deatil than the movie does, and most of the time their is allways that corny hollywood touch to it, which takes away from what we liked in the book.

Answer 10

I like the books, because the books have a lot of detail in them, and in the movies, they don't go into all of that detail. Also, in the books, you can imagine it in your head anyway you want it to be, but in the movie, you're just watching it.