Harry Potter - Two, two, three threads in one!

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I was going to post the first part a couple of days ago and didn’t, then just a few minutes ago came up with the second, so I will post both posits in one thread.

1> In watching the HP movies on the Family Channel, I see a lot of extended scenes that are not on the DVD releases. I’ve google searched and found discussion of them, but they don’t appear to be commercially available. What’s the deal with this and why have they NOT been released?

2> Without wanting/needing to wade through a lot of crap to find a few jewels, can people point me at any good HP fanfic stuff? I’m not interested in Slash (although others might be).

3> Now that I get that far, post your ideas for Potterverse stories that JKR could write to make more money extend the franchise.

Having watched GoF the other day, I can posit one idea for a non-Harry-centric book;

Barty Crouch Jr (played by David Tennant) was revealed to be one of the people who tortured Neville’s parents. At the end of the book, he was returned to Azkhaban. Now I don’t recall any specific mention in Hallows of Barty Crouch, so I can only assume that he survived and is either on the loose or is in Azkhaban.

What if he were to escape, three years after the end of Hallows, and with some help from other lesser DA members, Neville was to go after him?

At this point, even though it’s said that HP becomes Head Auror, I have a hard time believing that a 17 (now 20) year old kid with no real world experience is the REAL Head Auror. Oh, he might have the title as a show, but he’s definitely still going to be learning the ropes and trying to master all the paperwork and administrative skills at that point. Ginny, Ron and Hermoine also have their own careers going. So we can keep them relegated to being short, supporting roles or even Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film mentions of them being off doing something else at the time.

Book (and Film) wise, it gives everyone a chance to reconnect to what their heroes are doing just a few years after Hallows. It gives secondary characters a chance to shine without it being The Harry Potter Show. It creates and enemy and a danger (oh, you can add in more escaped Death Eaters to make it more dangerous and allow little victories along the way), and in the end, it creates a one-shot post Who role for Tennant. :wink:

And I like Neville Longbottom.

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I thought Barty Crouch Jr. was given the Dementors kiss at the end of GOF?

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Fudge let a dementor loose on Barty Jr who had most of his soul sucked out. He is technically alive, but with no memories, no sense of himself. He’s basically a body with no one home.

He could be killed, but he doesn’t have enough left that is ‘him’ to even try to escape.

He became head auror in 2007, he would be 27 at that time.
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/wotm.cfm

I wouldn’t mind seeing what happened in the few years following Deathly Hallows, but at 20 he was still learning the auror ropes under Shacklebolt.

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Ah well, then I guess the solution would be to have him discover that a third, previously unknown Death Eater was also present. Or maybe more than one.

Luna could be involved and meet Rolf (introducing his character).

Maybe we could get an update on the Dursleys, Dudley in particular. While his parents are hardly likely to have changed, perhaps Duddie has. Does Harry ever speak to them again, or did he just write them off altogether?

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I wasn’t aware of the extended version playing on the Family Channel. All I can say is that I hope those become commercially available (like LOTR) or this will be one disgruntled HP fan. :mad:

Just watched HP5 tonight (rererewatched). There is so much wrong with this film, but I still watch it…

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OotP is my favorite, but I understand how/why others might not like it.

I dunno if they ever advertised them as ‘extended’ and this is not the first time I’ve noticed things in them on that channel that are not in the theatrical releases.

Like Harry’s first time in Snape’s class in the first movie. After asking Harry about the several items and Harry not knowing, Snape sits down across from him and explains them to him. In the second movie where Harry uses the floo network for the first time from the Weasleys and ends up in Diagon Alley, there’s an extended bit with him in the dark/evil shop when Malfoy comes in.

Those are the two I can recall off the top of my head.

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Ah, I believe those are both deleted scenes that do appear on the DVD’s. But in the deleted scenes section of the menu. I thought it was cool that they plugged them into the Family channel broadcast.

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Well, I can help if you’re interested in either general Marauder-era stuff (e.g. focusing on James, Sirius, Remus & Peter when Harry’s dad was in school or the 1st Voldie war) or stories relating to Lupin in particular. As he’s far and away my favorite character, my fic reading has been focused on him, and I must say I’ve been extremely lucky to find several lovely stories. Maybe I’m just gifted at research – or maybe there’s a connection between ‘writers who produce beautiful, unusual, character-based stories’ and ‘writers who want to focus on a lowkey yet dark, dramatically ripe character like Lupin’.

If this subgenre is up your (diagon) alley, let me know and I’ll make with the recs. :slight_smile:

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Re deleted and extended scenes: this is part of the reason I’m holding out until all [del]7[/del] 8 movies come out in the inevitable super-duper box set.