10 Scenes In Harry Potter Books That Were Too Dark For The Movies
10 Scenes In Harry Potter Books That Were Too Dark For The Movies
The Harry Potter movies may have had some dark scenes, but the books were even darker.
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For the most part, the Harry Potter movies do a brilliant job at bringing the adventures of the Boy Who Lived to the big screen. We get to see Harry starting out at Hogwarts in The Sorcerer’s Stone before vanquishing the threat of Lord Voldemort once and for all in the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, with the two blockbusters released a decade apart.
Inevitably, there are dark moments along the way. However, not all of the scenes from the book made it into the films – most likely because they were catered for younger audiences.
10 Family Murders
It’s alluded to but never said out loud, that Lord Voldemort murdered his bloodline while he was still at Hogwarts. Just after his fifth year, where he opened the Chamber of Secrets, the Dark Lord went to the village of Little Hangleton to find out the truth about his origins.
Once there, he does some despicable things. He attacks his uncle Morfin before going on a killing spree, murdering his father and his grandparents in their manor. To make things even worse he framed Morfin for the crime. However, none of this was said out loud in the blockbusters and a flashback showing this would have likely given children sleepless nights.
9 Muggle Torture
We see torture in the Harry Potter books, such as when Lord Voldemort uses the Cruciatus Curse on the likes of Harry and Ollivander – as well as when Barty Crouch Jr uses the Unforgivable Curse on a helpless spider while disguised as Auror Alastor ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody.
But there’s a scene in the Goblet of Fire book that would have made for some uncomfortable viewing. At the Quidditch World Cup, seedy Death Eaters get to work on a muggle family by making them hang upside down with their underwear showing. The connotations this have are obvious and it’s for the best that it wasn’t included in the film of the same name. Underwear showing in a Potter movie just doesn’t seem right.
8 Dementors Kiss
The Dementors Kiss is when the guards of Azkaban use their scabby hands and force themselves on you, sucking your soul out through your mouth. JK Rowling has described them as her scariest creation which, when you consider she’s the author responsible for introducing the world to Lord Voldemort, really is saying something.
In the Goblet of Fire book, it’s used on Barty Crouch Jr without Albus Dumbledore giving consent to the act. This rankles with the Hogwarts headmaster, who blasts Cornelius Fudge for going behind his back. The Dementors kiss is something from a horror movie – which may explain why we never got to see it in the movies.
7 Neville’s Parents
The Potter movies are popular because they enable just about everybody to escape reality. And that may explain why they didn’t show the tragic scene of when Neville Longbottom visits his parents in St Mungo’s hospital in the Order of the Phoenix movie.
It’s a sad, emotional moment. Neville’s parents had been tortured into insanity and left shells of their old selves and it’s heartbreaking to read of Neville sneaking wrappers they give him into his pocket behind the back of his grandmother. Seeing two people so disturbed would have likely prompted awkward questions from younger viewers and that may explain why it didn’t make it into the movie of the same name.
6 The Twins And Montague
In the Half-Blood Prince, the concept of the Vanishing Cabinet is explained. Draco Malfoy fixes one at Hogwarts and uses its twin, based at Borgin and Burkes in Knockturn Alley, to smuggle the Death Eaters into Hogwarts so they can wipe out Albus Dumbledore once and for all.
However, it’s actually first explained in the Order of the Phoenix book. Disturbingly, Fred and George Weasley trap Slytherin student Montague in one of the cabinets and he spends months there, unable to reach out or contact anybody. He eventually ends up getting out of his prison via Apparition but the effort nearly kills him. Fred and George show zero remorse for their actions and, had this scene been included in the movie, it could have tarnished fans’ views on the pair.
5 Ron And The Brains
The Department of Mysteries is appropriately named because most people don’t have a clue what lies within. If you’re solely a fan of the movies, you could be forgiven for thinking the place contained just prophecies. In the Order of the Phoenix book, however, this isn’t the case.
Horifificaly, there’s a room with ACTUAL brains inside it. Ron, in a confused state, summons one of them – which proves to be a mistake. The brains try and strangle him with tentacles showing moving images and Ron is left scarred for life after the incident. We can’t help but feel people may have been afraid seeing Weasley nearly throttled to death, so it’s for the best this was left out.
4 The Death Of Ariana Dumbledore
Flashbacks are sometimes used in Harry Potter to tell stories that happened years ago. There’s one in the Sorcerer’s Stone, when Harry learns the truth about the death of his parents, and another notable one is in the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 when Xenophilius Lovegood explains about the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone and Invisibility Cloak.
However, it’s no surprise a flashback isn’t used to describe the death of Ariana Dumbledore. Disturbed after being attacked as a child, she ends up being caught in the crossfire of a huge duel between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald. Chillingly, neither knows who performed the fatal curse that ended her life. Yikes…
3 Greyback’s Lust For Hermione
In the movies, Fenrir Greyback is just your usual Death Eater. Like the rest of Lord Voldemort’s followers, he carries out his master’s villainous schemes without any hassle and seems to relish the opportunity to bite anybody he can.
What isn’t shown, however, is just how evil the werewolf is. Greyback likes to bite people while they’re young, so they can be shunned by their communities and forced to live a life of misery. If that wasn’t vile enough, he also makes it clear how much he wants to eat Hermione Granger at Malfoy Manor (although the connotations, again, suggest he had even more of a sinister motive). Had Greyback been portrayed like his book self, then the movies’ certifications may have had to change.
2 Peter Pettigrew’s Death
The Harry Potter movies don’t shy away when it comes to deaths. Cedric Diggory, Sirius Black and Albus Dumbledore are just three good guys who lose their lives amid the fight against Lord Voldemort and his dastardly followers. However, there’s one death that was seemingly too horrific for the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 movie to show.
We’re talking about when Peter Pettigrew’s silver hand turns on its owner, choking him to death while Harry and Ron desperately try to save his life. Imagine if we’d actually seen Wormtail throttle himself? That certainly wouldn’t have been appropriate and, with Dobby dying in the same movie anyway, could have been too much to take.
1 Nagini Biting Snape
Due to some clever camera work, we don’t actually see Nagini’s sharp fangs sinking into the neck of Severus Snape. Instead, we merely hear the creature chomping on the Hogwarts Potion Master.
Again, this was probably to protect younger viewers. The movie did make things dark by having Lord Voldemort slash Snape’s throat first but, fortunately, shielded most fans from further bloodshed. Nagini ends up dying soon afterwards, with Neville Longbottom beheading Lord Voldemort’s prized pet.
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