Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the 6th part of the popular fantasy series, has an impressive running time of 153 minutes. Nevertheless, he still had to shorten his template significantly. To adapt the Half-Blood Prince, The film deleted 11 important scenes from the 6th Harry Potter book – and one of them would have completely reclassified the wizarding world.
No Muggle bridging: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince omits the first book scene
The book of the 6th Harry Potter part * begins significantly differently than the film: In it we meet him English Prime Ministerwho reflects on the latest accidents and grim happenings in the country, as he Visit from Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge receives.
This is how we find out that the English wizarding world informs the British Muggle leader about magical threats in a time of need. This includes prison escapes by dangerous inmates from Azkaban as well as the terrible news of Voldemort’s return. In the first chapter, Fudge also reveals his removal as Minister for Magic to the astonished British Prime Minister and introduces his successor, Rufus Scrimgeour.
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Harry Potter Minister for Magic: Cornelius Fudge (Robert Hardy) & Rufus Scrimgeour (Bill Nighy)
The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince shows at the beginning with the blown-up London Millennium Bridge the mischief that Voldemort’s followers are causing in the Muggle world, but neither Cornelius Fudge (Robert Hardy from Harry Potter 2, 3, 4 and 5) Rufus Scrimgeour (Bill Nighy from Part 7) also makes an appearance. Let alone the Muggle Prime Minister. Probably because the The deleted scene brought about a decisive change in the films would have.
No politics in Harry Potter 6: Why was the Prime Ministers meeting canceled?
After the 4th Harry Potter film deleted Hermione’s most controversial storyline, it can be speculated that the 6th film also preferred to stay away from politics. The 24-page chapter creates a fascinating bridge from the wizarding world to our real reality, but it could also have two difficulties brought with it:
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Harry Potter’s Place for Politics: The Ministry of Magic
In addition, the film plot of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince also works very well without the British Prime Minister. And so the decision against starting the book was ultimately also a question of running time for the film, which lasted over two and a half hours. The only question that remains is whether the planned Harry Potter series will approach this differently.
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