Watching the Ruthless Voldemort

Rupert sighed, "But Harry was too hasty. Actually, in the novel, this is also related to Kreacher."

"Harry wasn't that reckless. He was going to have someone confirm it."

"But writing letters won't work, the owls are being monitored, and Hedwig was attacked by Umbridge."

"Harry had to risk going to Umbridge's office and using the Floo Network there; that's how he got caught."

"But unfortunately, Kreacher lied to Harry, Sirius went to the Department of Mysteries."

("Kreacher?" Sirius was incredulous; House-elf could betray its master.)

(However, he was not angry; Kreacher was Regulus Black's loyal servant.)

(He already knew the story of Regulus Black —his cowardly younger brother.)

"Could he be like Dobby?" asked Ron from the movie.

Rupert shook his head. "Kreacher was following the orders of the Black family heir. Sirius's actions did not conform to his own, or to the definition of the heir by his former master. Sirius has also consistently ignored Kreacher's feelings as an intelligent being."

"And Bellatrix and Narcissa, who appeared at this time, became the replacements."

"Those who came from the Black family held more weight in Kreacher's heart than Sirius."

Sirius breathed a sigh of relief; he wasn't treating Kreacher the way Rupert had described.

(Now Kreacher also understands that Voldemort is the enemy who killed his master Regulus Black. He no longer has the loyalty he once had to his Cissy and Miss Bellatrix.)

"I see," said Ron the Novelist. "Was Umbridge this brave in the novel, using Binding Charm to strangle one of the centaurs in front of so many of them?"

After the golden river appeared, he also encountered centaurs on its banks. They shot arrows faster and with greater accuracy than most wizards' magic.

Rupert said, "The Umbridge in the movie is enhanced. Although the Umbridge in the novel is also highly skilled in magic and can summon physical Patronus, she has been pampered for many years. She did not stop the centaur's arrows, and the Binding Charm only bound the centaur's body."

"The centaurs captured Umbridge directly."

"Hermione's words revealed her intention to use the centaurs to help them out of their predicament. The arrogant yet insecure centaurs felt they were being used, and they viewed the noble centaurs as servants, as tamed hounds, being used by the wizard."

"The angry centaurs even wanted to break the rule of not harming foals and attack Harry and his companions."

"Fortunately, Grawp, who was looking for Hagrid, appeared just in time and saved Harry and the others."

"These centaurs are so outrageous?" Novelist Ron was somewhat incredulous; his impression of centaurs mostly came from Delia.

"That's understandable," Rupert said. "They have their own wisdom and culture, but their status is similar to that of protected animals, even lower than that of Goblin. Not every centaur is a Fizzelen."

"They requested it themselves, voluntarily registering as beasts. Okay, but—" Movie Ron looked at his on-screen self with envy, "Riding Thestral to London, that's so cool!"

(Mrs. Weasley's face was stern and serious.)

(In her view, it was foolish and ignorant for a group of children to dare to storm the Ministry of Magic and confront the Death Eater.)

(She's already thinking about how to punish Ron when she sees him.)

"You didn't find it cool in the novel. The Thestral are invisible, and their bloodthirsty nature makes you very uncomfortable throughout the whole process, causing you to stumble and fall when you land." Rupert shrugged. "I've always thought that the part where he's running in the street could be cut and used for a more interesting plot."

"Only audiences in London, England can truly connect with this part."

"Don't they find it suspicious?" Draco, the novelist, was somewhat speechless. "The Ministry of Magic, the Department of Mysteries, they just barged in so easily, without seeing a single person or stopping them."

"That's understandable," Neville said. "Because Harry thought Voldemort had captured Sirius, right? They must have thought Voldemort's men had taken care of everything."

Then he shivered, not because of Lucius Malfoy in the movie.

Instead, it was the woman who appeared with a sharp, delicate, yet neurotic laugh— Bellatrix Lestrange.

("How utterly ridiculous, Bellatrix," Sirius scoffed. "You call Harry a bastard, but according to your logic, Voldemort is even more of a bastard than a bastard. Harry is at least two wizards.")

(Bellatrix: "How dare you—how dare you—you Pure-blood traitor, you depraved scoundrel!")

In the movie, Draco looks at his aunt in the film with disdain, saying, "I feel like her wand is always pointing at my dad."

The movie Ron satirizes, "You still don't understand? She thinks he's a traitor."

Rupert said, "I asked Ms. Carter, the actress who Bellatrix, about her understanding of the character."

"She believed that any Death Eater imprisoned who did not fight to the last moment for the Dark Lord like she did was not trustworthy, especially Lucius Malfoy."

"He received the most favor from his master, yet he behaved so poorly."

"If it weren't for her master's orders, she would have killed him."

"Kill my father?" Draco in the movie was speechless. "She's a lunatic. My father is her sister's husband!"

"She's a lunatic." Ron's body twitched involuntarily.

However, it wasn't because of Bellatrix, but because of Ginny's Shattering Curse in the movie. Everyone else used the Stunning Spell, but Ginny dared to kill someone with a calm expression.

"The movie adaptation still isn't good enough," Rupert sighed. "There are many parts of the Department of Mysteries that could be filmed. The novel describes the battles in the Time Chamber and the Brain Room."

"But it's alright, some of the details about Hermione in the novel are a bit too much."

"A Death Eater's head was turned into that of an infant because of the power of the Time Chamber."

"With Death Eater all around, Harry's hand holding the wand was locked, on the grounds that a baby could not be harmed."

"In the subsequent battles, I never used any lethal spells, thinking that I would be fine by keeping the enemy from casting spells Silencio. As a result, I was hit by Dark Magic and fell to the ground."

"Everyone else performed well, but she dragged things down."

Neville pointed to himself, "'I' did better too?"

Rupert nodded. "In the novel, you were all initially controlled except for Harry. You escaped using the Prophecy Orb and went to fight in other halls. The fighting was much fiercer, and everyone else was knocked down."

"Only Neville remained, still bravely resisting, and was tortured by Bellatrix with the Cruciatus Curse."

(Augusta Lumbaton, who wanted to describe how outstanding her grandson was, deleted her words. Now she felt more heartache. She wished that the grandson in the story could be more ordinary and timid, and stay peacefully at Hogwarts.)

"Then the members of the Order of the Phoenix arrived."

"Of course, it's not as cool as in the movies. Vaporizing your body to fly or teleport is something only Voldemort could do in the novels. Snape could only fly."

(The audience in the Wizarding World was astonished.)

(Is it really that difficult to fly without using flying devices?)

(Is the level of magic in this world lower? But it doesn't seem like it.)

(Only Basil knew that this was because the magic in the two worlds was different.)

(The magical nature of the Novel World is higher and more difficult to control.)

(The magic in the movie world also resides in the brain on the material level; Casting by Thought are easier to control.)

"This adaptation is very good; it connects well with Snape's painful memories, especially the inexplicable 'Well done, James.' Sirius the novel was too sudden."

(James: "Sirius.")

(Sirius: "James.")

"He was fighting Bellatrix and had just gained the upper hand, dodging a beam of light. But when he was taunting Bellatrix, he was hit by her Killing Curse and fell into the archway of the Death Chamber, just like in the movie."

(To prevent James and Sirius from getting carried away with their bromance and saying something even more outrageous that might hurt Lily, Dumbledore began analyzing the movie. "In normal times, with the Killing Curse, wizards die instantly, without any visible wounds.")

("Sirius could, perhaps because he was standing at the edge of the [arches], the entrance to the afterlife, and as a living dead person, he gave Harry a slight expression in response.")

"Sirius is dead." Even though the person in front of him was different from the one he knew, Harry still broke down. "Bellatrix Lestrange! She's a madwoman."

"One second she was distraught because she killed her cousin, the next she was sneering."

Rupert said, "She's not crazy enough. In the novel, she just lets out a triumphant screech, and she leaves because of Dumbledore's appearance."

"The Cruciatus Curse instruction in the novel was given by Bellatrix, not whispered by Voldemort."

She said first, 'Haha... do you love him very much, little Potter?'

"The Cruciatus Curse that Harry uses."

"If I'm not mistaken," Draco said with a complicated expression, "Voldemort is teaching Harry how to use the Unforgivable Curses, targeting his most loyal servant, my aunt?"

For the first time, he felt Voldemort's ruthlessness so clearly.

Even his most loyal servants seemed insignificant in his presence.

(Lucius Malfoy: "Yes, that was the kind of person my former master was. The Dark Lord is not worth following.")

"He wanted Harry to become his weapon," Ron said in the novel, "Or rather, Voldemort did need a weapon, Prophecy was just an add-on."

"Harry, who is connected to his brain and controlled by him, is his best weapon."

"For this, he was willing to sacrifice his most loyal servants."

(Bellatrix: "I do! Little boy!")

"Luckily Dumbledore." Ron breathed a sigh of relief. "Otherwise, Harry might have really killed someone."

Harry frowned. "Is this how you cast spells? It looks like welding. And I have a feeling that Dumbledore struggling, he's at a disadvantage against Voldemort."

Rupert said, "In the novel, Dumbledore completely overpowers Voldemort, after all, Dumbledore also has the advantage of the Elder Wand."

"In the novel, Voldemort also possessed Harry, but Harry immediately broke free from Voldemort because he thought that he could see Sirius after he died."

"It's not as drawn out as in the movie, and there are so many memories."

"The grief of losing Sirius finally freed him from Voldemort's influence."

"Voldemort could no longer control or deceive him through the connection between their brains."

"He could no longer even perceive Harry's voyeurism of his thoughts and the scene before him when their brains were connected."

Ron from the movie realized the key point. "Just getting rid of the influence?"

Rupert nodded. "In the seventh book, when Dobby died, Harry truly mastered Legilimency, making it impossible for Voldemort's mind to penetrate his.

"Dobby?" asked Ron in the movie, puzzled.

(At this moment, Harry and Ron were thinking the same thing: he couldn't understand how he could have such deep feelings for Dobby.)

Rupert said, "Dobby polite and more lovable in the novel, and he has a lot of interactions with Harry later on, but the movie cut out these details and plot points."

"If you only watch the movie, this is indeed a bit hard to understand."

At this point, Harry was actually using the two-way mirror that Sirius had given him, hoping to communicate with Sirius. He also approached Nick, hoping that Sirius could return as a ghost.

"Let's talk about something lighter," said Movie Ron. "Haha, the Ministry of Magic has finally admitted that Voldemort has been resurrected!"

"Alright," Rupert said. "In the novel, Harry actually smashed up Dumbledore's office."

("That's only right!")

(Many audience members said in unison.)

(Dumbledore's behavior alienated them from a lot of goodwill.)

"That's disgusting," said Ron from the Movies. "These Ravenclaw are even worse, after Luna and Harry went on an adventure together. Luna was amazing! She was being bullied herself, but she still thought about comforting Harry."

"I apologize for calling her Loony."

(Professor Flitwick felt even more ashamed, believing that Ravenclaw was unworthy of such a wonderful Luna.)

"Yes, we have more than Voldemort. Harry is right."

"Love, friendship, and the nose," said Ron, the author of the novel.

"And the eyebrows," Harry added.

The people in the room burst into laughter.

However, the smiles quickly disappeared from everyone's faces.

Because of the opening of the sixth installment.

Under the flashing lights, Harry, held in Dumbledore, looked utterly despondent, his face expressionless.

(Snape didn't even bother to feel embarrassed about the 'Half-Blood Prince' in the title of the movie that followed.)

Rupert coughed. "In the novel, Dumbledore considered Harry's feelings. He conjured a Door Key right in front of Fudge, allowing Harry to return to his office. He didn't expose him to the flashing lights at all."

"But this is illegal—" Movie Ron stopped mid-sentence.

He suddenly thought that Dumbledore in the novels seemed to have more guts; he could beat up the Minister for Magic at will, not to mention creating Door Key.

"Why are these Death Eater showing up so openly and brazenly?"

("Fenrir Greyback." Lupin's face immediately turned grim.)

"They vandalized Diagon Alley and broke the viaduct."

"Didn't Dumbledore do anything?"

He looked at Rupert.

Rupert said, "Diagon Alley the novel, or rather, not so obviously. They just secretly kidnapped a few people, Ollivander and that guy who runs the ice cream shop. The Death Eater only dare to send Dementor and Giant to cause trouble in the Muggle World."

"Florin—" Ron was about to say what the ice cream shop owner had done to deserve this when he was drawn to the scene in the movie. "Who is this girl? Harry seems to be interested in her."

(Florin Forresco: Keep asking, I'd like to know what's going on with me too.)

"This girl too!"

(Ginny frowns.)