hp locations??

Question

in the first movie hagrids hut was right next to the school in the third it was moved down hill ??
also in the first movie the fat lady portrait( the door to the gryffindor common room) is a really old looking woman w/ no humor atall in hte third they change her for a newer looking portrait.
in the second movie the whoomping willow was next to the school but, in the third, it was moved closer to hagris hut which also has been moved!!
am i the only 1 who thinks this is kind of odd?

oh ya! in the third movie the lake by which harry fought off the dementors , is that the same lake they used in the forth?? jkr only mentions 1 lake near hogwarts??? odd hu?

yes i know movies are not al ways "loyal" to the books but it is still kinda odd.

Answer 1

omg yeah! they are always changing the setting, it annoys me so much!

Answer 2

Yeah, um. The third movie was a very big goof.
That is the worst of all, about less that 25% of the movie was to the book, as all the others were 75% or even 90% to the book. The director was a complete idiot. Yeah, the locations really bothered me, because they made sense in all the other movies. Weren't the portraits suppose to be hidden? lol. The lake in the woods was the 1 lake, it was moved in the 4th movie to the correct location.
The thing that ticked me off the most were 5 things:
1.) The origins of the Marauders were not explained, or even mentioned, completly erasing about half of the meaning of book 3. The director said that they will probably be mentioned in the later movies, DUH! there is no time in the other movies to explain it!
2.) the name "Moony", in the movie on the map was spelt "Mooney", it was a joke between the director and some guy in the special effects department, because his last name was "Mooney" also. No one found it funny.
3.) Was that a werewolf or a naked mole rat?
4.) The attire of everyone really ticked me off. They were all wearing American Eagle, Ambercrombie and Fitch, etc. setting the time for the year at Hogwarts. The story actually takes place in the 1990's.
5.) Sirius Black was made to look crazy, or scary. And he wasn't like that at all, he looked tired and gaunt, like a vampire, in the books. I hated him crazy in the movie.

You can probably tell by now that, the third book was my favorite, but the movie sucked. I can't believe they trashed it so much. Don't pay any attention to the locations, because they aren't correct.

Answer 3

The landscape was moved in the 3rd film to make the grounds less flat and more cinematic than the first 2.

Having the hut be far away from the school made the lake, Whomping Willow, and Hagrid's Hut all out of eyeline from each other, so that the kids wouldn't easily see that Buckbeak hadn't been killed, and so that there would be places to hide when time-traveling.

Answer 4

The movies do not have all the same directors, and so are not completely consistent. But the books are much more consistent. Also, don't forget that your perspective may have changed with the camera angle and so on. I think Hagrid's cottage does not so much change its location as change in perspective. It was always described as near the entrance to the forbidden forest. But that is not far from the castle. Don't forget that the castle has many wings and towers, spreads over considerable area.

There's only one lake.

Answer 5

They're movies... and all were basically shot by different director that well showed Hogwarts from their point for view. Movies aren't always loyal to the books, just keep that in mind ;)

Answer 6

Yeah, it's odd, but the directors changed during the movies. So, it would probably be hard to be consistent throughout, ya know what I mean?

Answer 7

damm i aint sure..

Answer 8

huh, weird....