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Posts: 723 · Posted: November 8, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: Why the scenery change?

Why did they change Hogwarts so much in this movie? Some things I feel were better in the first two movies. Does anyone remember anyone speaking about the changes when the movies came out? C'mon Ginny X, I know you must have some kind of an answer for me.
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They made a new Hogwarts set, in Scotland. Not sure why.
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Posts: 24647 · Posted: November 9, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject:

hogwarts is supposed to be located in scotland. the director had the idea to actually shoot the outdoor scenes there, and the producers and eveyone loved the idea. it was a good idea, the scenery was beautiful.
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Posts: 649 · Posted: January 30, 2008 6:48 am Post subject:

yeah i agree,but i didn't notice that hogwarts changed

Posts: 723 · Posted: January 31, 2008 11:13 am Post subject:

^They added the bridge, the big clock, they moved Hagrids house, they moved the Whomping Willow, they moved the entrance of the Gryffindor common room, and the hall of moving stair cases now leads right in front of the great hall and it didnt in the first movie.
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The scenery changes was great, but I must admit how much I hated the change of the Gryffindor common room. It was connected to the moving stair cases. In the first two movies, they used the Gloucester Cathedral as the 'corridors' to walk into the common room, and they never went back to that Cathedral to shoot in film 3. They really didn't need it in films 4 and 5 as we never saw the students walking into the Gryffindor common room. So glad they're using the Cathedral again (in HBP), it gives us a sense of continuity of all the films where PoA and GoF lacked.
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I'm not sure what i think about the scenery changes. i think the views were stunning. great move going for schotland. but i really can't fathom out the other changes.

Posts: 1434 · Joined: Feb 22, 2008 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 1434

Yep i really loved the scenery
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Posts: 1534 · Posted: July 31, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject:

The scenery in PoA was simply amazing! The lake scene was breath-taking on the big-screen (yes, I remember Very Happy

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i really loved the scenery, and i wish that they had started filming there from film 1
but i dont like the way that its changed so drastically, and also, i love dawn french and everything, but having her as the fat lady? doesnt really do it for me xD
i loved how the whole place looked older and less try hard, which i think was a big thing for the whole move tbh
eg. hermiones hair (total deviation here, sorry) in the first two films, they crimped it, to make it look fizzy, and it just seemed that they were trying a bit too hard, and it was really obvious xD
thats just an example, the films seem more natural now Very Happy

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