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** The elderly member of the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures who attends Buckbeak's execution is not present in the film.

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** The elderly member of the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures who attends Buckbeak's execution is not present in the film. The filmmakers intended for Lucius Malfoy to be present for the execution, which would have constituted [[CompositeCharacter the merging of Lucius and the unnamed committee member]]. However, Creator/JasonIsaacs was unavailable at the time.
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* ImplausibleSynchrony: In the book's time-turner scene, Dumbledore tells Hermione that it's five minutes to midnight. In the movie, this is replaced as visual cues in the two clocks present--the one on the hospital room's wall and the giant one integrated into the tower. Just a few moments after Dumbledore exits the room, as Hermione loops the time-turner's chain around her and Harry's necks, the second clock starts to chime, indicating it's midnight. That same time is displayed in the wall clock. While it could be magic that keeps them in sync, it's never confirmed.
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* RevealingCoverUp: Arthur explains to Harry that Sirius Black will be coming for him. However, he messes up when he asks Harry not to go looking for Sirius, and Harry asks the reasonable question of why he'd go looking for someone who wants to kill him. It stirs Harry's curiosity and sets him on a path towards finding out about Sirius and seeking revenge after all.
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[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one with]] the [[https://youtu.be/X7YLpHFFW64 creepy theme music]].

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[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one with]] one]] with the [[https://youtu.be/X7YLpHFFW64 creepy theme music]].
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[[JustForFun/TheOneWith The one with]] the [[https://youtu.be/X7YLpHFFW64 creepy theme music]].
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** When Hagrid asks who wants to ride Buckbeat, while everyone else backs up, Neville can be seen hiding behind a boulder.
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* MidflightWaterTouching: When Harry flies around Hogwarts on the back of Buckbeak, the hippogriff flies close to the Hogwarts lake and touches the water with one of its talons.
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* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Invisible Harry pranks Crabbe by pulling his pants down, exposing his polka-dot boxers.
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* HandsLookingWrong: When Harry accidentally jinxes Aunt Marge to inflate, she first notices it by seeing her finger bloat.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Snape tells Dumbledore that Harry needs to know the truth about Sirius Black. Snape in the book was perfectly fine with keeping Harry in the dark. And if anything, he always criticizes Dumbledore for telling Harry anything because he doesn't think he's capable, competent or anyone special, and he outright resents Dumbledore for giving Harry private lessons and telling him stuff that he doesn't tell Snape. Also, when he realizes there's an angry werewolf standing behind him, the first thing he does is push Harry, Ron, and Hermione, three students he loathes, behind himself to protect them. In the book, he was knocked out for the entire event. Likewise, the entire sequence earlier in the book where Snape sadistically tries to test Neville's dodgy potion on the boy's pet toad is removed.

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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Snape tells Dumbledore that Harry needs to know the truth about Sirius Black. Snape in the book was perfectly fine with keeping Harry in the dark. And if anything, he always criticizes Dumbledore for telling Harry anything because he doesn't think he's capable, competent or anyone special, and he outright resents Dumbledore for giving Harry private lessons and telling him stuff that he doesn't tell Snape. Also, when he realizes there's an angry werewolf standing behind him, the first thing he does is push Harry, Ron, and Hermione, three students he loathes, behind himself to protect them. In the book, he was knocked out for the entire event. Likewise, the entire sequence earlier in the book where Snape sadistically tries to test Neville's dodgy potion on the boy's pet toad is removed. The film also never specifies that Snape was the one who let slip that Lupin was a werewolf unlike the book.
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* FantasticTimeManagement: [[spoiler: Hermione regularly uses time travel to take classes she otherwise wouldn't be able to.]]

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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: During the first night back at Hogwarts, the Gryffindor third-year boys eat different candies that have them emulate animals; Seamus gets a monkey, Neville an elephant and Ron gets a lion. When Harry gets one, he has steam coming out of his ears.
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** Dumbledore raps on Ron's plastered leg several times, totally oblivious to Ron's winces of pain.

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** When speaking to Harry and Hermione in the hospital, Dumbledore raps casually taps on Ron's plastered leg several times, totally seemingly oblivious to Ron's winces of pain.pain. There's no mention of Dumbledore doing this during the scene in the book.


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* MetaCasting: Creator/DavidThewlis and Creator/GaryOldman, who portray Remus and Sirius respectively, were frequently typecast as villains and criminals, usually murderers, in other roles prior to their casting in this film. To viewers familiar with these actors, this immediately paints Sirius as a dangerous threat while also making Remus seem potentially suspicious and untrustworthy[[spoiler:, making it even more surprising when both characters turn out to be GoodAllAlong]].

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* DemotedToExtra: Cedric Diggory, the Hufflepuff Seeker, is present in the film, but only in a cameo and is never referred to by name. He gets a proper introduction in the next film, where he has a much more integral role.

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** In the book, Crookshanks was a significant supporting character with some considerable AmplifiedAnimalAptitude. In the film, he only appears a couple times and [[AdaptationalNonsapience seems to be a normal cat]].
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Cedric Diggory, the Hufflepuff Seeker, is present in the film, but only in a cameo and is never referred to by name. He gets a proper introduction in the next film, where he has a much more integral role.
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* FooledByTheSound: Professor Lupin (in wolf form) responds to Hermione's imitation of a wolf's call and is drawn away from attacking the rest of the group in favor of investigating Hermione's howl.
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* ContinuitySnarl: When Harry sees the patronus from across the lake, it is in the form of a stag. However, when Harry casts the patronus after having gone back to the past, it has no real form other than the non-animal-shaped circular form.

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* ContinuitySnarl: When Harry sees the patronus Patronus from across the lake, it is in the form of a stag. However, when Harry casts the patronus Patronus after having gone back to the past, it has no real form other than the non-animal-shaped circular form.
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* DecompositeCharacter: While the book has Peeves describe Sirius Black's attack on the Fat Lady's portrait after learning about this from her when he saw her in a portrait on the fourth floor, in the film it's the Fat Lady herself whodescribes the attack from a nearby portrait.

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* DecompositeCharacter: While the book has Peeves describe Sirius Black's attack on the Fat Lady's portrait after learning about this from her when he saw her in a portrait on the fourth floor, in the film it's the Fat Lady herself whodescribes who describes the attack from a nearby portrait.

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* MalingeringRomancePloy: Draco is genuinely injured by Buckbeak the hippogriff, but plays up the severity of the injury because Pansy Parkinson is fawning over him. Much later, when Ron is injured by the Whomping Willow and enjoying Hermione's concern, he does something very similar, remarking that the leg might need to be amputated. (Needless to say, it does not.)

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Draco is genuinely injured by Buckbeak the hippogriff, but plays up the severity of the injury because Pansy Parkinson is fawning over him. him.
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Much later, when Ron is injured by the Whomping Willow and enjoying Hermione's concern, he does something very similar, remarking that the leg might need to be amputated. (Needless to say, it does not.)
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Removal of malformed wicks to GCPTR per TRS thread and Wicks Cleaning Project


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