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Originally Posted by Lady Pi Phi
I think it would have been better for Harry to have found the room, becasue after all, it was Dobby who showed Harry the room. I don't think it was really necessary to have Neville find the room.
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Maybe. But that's an argument about choice once the decision has made to deviate from the book, not an argument about whether the deviation from the book was "necessary" to begin with, which is what I was responding to.
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I disagree. It could easily have been "Marietta" who ratted them out. In the scene with with Umbridge giving the students the Veritaserum, one of them could have been Marietta. They wouldn't have to give her lines or really identify who she was. The readers of the books would have figured it out, and those who didn't read the books, would have figured it was just another student.
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But then you still have the problem of Harry and Cho. If Marietta Edgecombe is the tattler, then how does the filmmaker tell why Harry and Cho don't work out after the mistletoe kiss? That was a pretty big moment, so it can't just get dropped or sloughed off.
In the book, we see Harry and Cho growing a little closer and we follow Harry's butterflies about it all, but then after the disastrous Valentine's Day date at Madame Puddifoot's, Cho is very hurt and she and Harry basically break up. If the filmmaker puts the Madame Puddifoot scene in, then he also has to give Harry a reason to have to leave and go meet Hermione elsewhere, thereby making Cho hurt and angry. In the book, the reason that Hermione wanted Harry to meet her was so that he could give an interview to Rita Skeeter, which brings in the whole Quibbler story, also not in the movie. Perhaps
that story line was left out since the movie version of GoF didn't mention that Skeeter was an illegal animagus, so the filmmaker would have had to come up with reasons why she's no longer working for the daily Prophet as well as why Hermione could get her to write a sympathetic story. You see how it's not hard to get a snowball going.
Under circumstances like these, a filmmaker may find it works much better to let Cho be the tattler and let that betrayal provide the motivation for Harry and Cho to part ways.