Synopsis:

I've always loved the Harry Potter books, but the movies have been pretty hit or miss for me. I completely love what they have made, but there are many scenes of poor acting, or bad character choices that are completely fixable. My main goals overall: - Create light edits that don't try to reimagine or create anything new, but rather just enhance the original movies - Remove small annoyances and some poor performances (Harry shushing Ron, Barty Crouch Jr tongue flicks, dumbing down Hagrid, etc) - Retain as much world building as possible (Clock in the Weasley's home, monster roar at housekeeping in PoA, etc) - Keep the original music to their own movies, except for a few rare occasions - Tighten up action wherever I could Goals for Order of the Phoenix: - Incorporate most of the deleted scenes - Cut out as much bad acting, dialog and writing as I could

Intentions:

Harry Potter is one of my favorite series' ever. I've got so much nostalgia from growing up with the books and movies. But even watching as a kid I remember disliking some things about the movies. I don't want to rob the movies of their charm, but I did see some things that I believe would be better changed or removed. I think these small changes make the experience a better one overall.

Change List:

- Tightened up the Dementor attack for better pacing - Added HP Theme when Moody opens up the Headquarters building - Tightened up a bit of the hearing to remove Mrs Figg hand raising joke and her describing the boys rather than the dementors. I don't think that translated so well to the movie - Added the deleted scene of the kids in Gryffindor Tower. Followed JJPotter's audio editing and adjusted further to get the audio matching better. Slight color correction - Added the deleted scene of Trelawney getting evaluated, and followed how JJPotter removed her original scenes, but adjusted the audio differently to blend better. Again more adjustments to color - Cut Harry telling Hermione that the others came to listen because he is a freak. He just tells her that they should go now - Cut Ron saying "Who are you and what have you done with Hermione". It was really forced - Cut out a bit of the Filch ridiculousness while he tries to get into the room of requirement - Cut the "I'm okay" bit when the kid gets dropped in the room of requirement training - Trimmed some of Hermione's long pause and then awkward laughing with Ron and Harry after the "emotional range of a teaspoon" bit - Cut Sirius toasting "Harry!" That line always bothered me for some reason - Trimmed the trio walking down the stairs because there is an awkward pause in Ron and Hermione's dialog - Cut some of Harry talking to Sirius about being the snake in his dreams because of some awkward dialog - Added some heroic Neville music when he is talking about how his parents died - Cut the bit about Dumbledore having style right after he teleports away with Fawkes. Another forced and unnatural joke that is better left in the book - Trimmed Grawp's intro and cut some unnecessary stuff like him picking up Hermione and Ron hitting him with a stick - Added the deleted scene in the forest with Umbridge and did a lot of color correcting to get this matching - Trimmed up the kids running from death eaters in the department of mysteries for better pacing - Adjusted a shot of Harry as he's possessed by Voldemort to make it look less awkward - Cut another shot of Harry as he's possessed when he stretches up like a snake but doesn't move his legs. It looks really dumb - Added the deleted scene of Harry walking into Dumbledore's office. Followed JJPotter's color correcting some but had to adjust further to get it how I wanted - Added the deleted scene of Ron asking Harry to go eat with them and color corrected - Trimmed the very last line when Harry says that they have something worth fighting for. The pause between his words was really long so I just cut it down - A few other minor trims throughout

Additional Notes:

I didn't want to do anything too drastic, but instead create a very light edit to remove things that might take you out of the viewing experience.

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Special Thanks:

Anjohan (Andreas), and JJPotter! I took a lot of inspiration and some exact cuts from their edits to make my own. Poster art by Carlossap on TPDb: https://theposterdb.com/user/Carlossap