maybe have more villains besides Voldemort? After is'nt having Harry Potter alway fight Voldemort in every movie getting old and tired? Maybe change the main location/setting to someplace else besides the world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?How would you improve the movies or the books?
Firstly: Why did you ask this question twice? Well, it's your points, I guess, so I might as well take another shot at answering the question!
So, same as last time, I'm gonna go through each of the suggestions in the question, and then my own suggestions, for both movie and book.
1. a) Maybe have more villains besides Voldemort?
There is nothing wrong with having one big baddy. This isn't a superhero film, where it seems these days you're required BY LAW to have as many supervillains as your CGI team can produce.
1. b) I'm talking about having Harry fight other (new people) villains besides Voldemort.
Now, why, exactly? First of all, at this late stage, any new stuff would mean new books, and this is part of the reason why Jo does not wish to create new books - she would have to create a new supervillain, and that would mess the previous books up on two levels.
Firstly, it would mess up the whole notion of "all is well", because all is actually not well, there is a new supervillain on the loose!
Secondly, it would just sort of rid the first seven books of any feeling of real urgency of triumph of defeating Voldemort if another one just pops up again and Harry has to smack that one down as well like he's playing some sadistic legendary game of whack-a-mole. I guess you could call it Whack-a-Vol.
2. Isn't have Harry always fight Voldemort in every movie getting old and tired?
It's called archetypes, my friend. In sagas such as this, the good guy fights the bad guy, and they both make it out alive to the next chapter of the saga. Also, Harry didn't fight Voldemort in the third film, nor will he in the sixth film. Actually, we'll hardly see adult Voldemort at all in HBP (if it ever comes out). Lastly, READ MOAR BOOKZ, FILMS R T3H SUK!!!!1!
3. Maybe change the location to someplace else besides Hogwarts?
As well as being an action/adventure series, it's also a boarding school series, a genre more popular in England than over here. Having your story take place at a boarding school opens up all sorts of new and interesting possibilities, especially on the shipping side, as well as on the "secret passages" side. Also, Deathly Hallows is hardly at Hogwarts at all. Most of the book is the trio (sometimes the duo) camping. We only hear of Hogwarts happening until the end, at the Battle of Hogwarts.
Now, for the movies:
First and second: get a different director. They were pretty faithful to the books, actually, it's just that they could have been better movies, even with the exact same script.
Prisoner of Azkaban: Personally my favorite, because it was a very enjoyable movie. It established some great motifs, like the giant clocktower that was used to such great effect in OotP. They didn't explain the Marauders well enough, which is a pretty big complaint, but it was still definitely the best.
GoF: Almost everything. The left out so much, and they changed canon so much. Why did they replace Dobby's parts with Neville? And they totally made Karkaroff seem so much more like a badguy than they should have. They did that one shot with him sneaking up on the Goblet, that was never explained. Voldy looked cool, but so much great stuff was left out, or changed for no good reason.
OotP: Umbridge was fantastic. Everything that had to do with Umbridge was brilliant. The rest stunk. The climactic battle at the Ministry should have lasted a lot longer. And Sirius's death was messed up in more ways that can be counted. I thought they did Illegimency and Occlumency pretty well, but they messed up Snape's worst memory. Also, why did they make the longest book into the shortest movie?
Okay, as for what I would change to make the books better:
Let me start this off by saying that the books are wonderful as they are, and all problems with the series now really aren't that big a deal for me. But, the question was asked, so I'll answer it.
GET JO SOME DAMN MATH LESSONS.
Jo is never exactly sure with anything involving numbers. There's the missing 24 hours at the beginning of Philosopher's Stone, where Dumbledore waited a whole day before doing anything with Harry for some unexplained reason. There's the size of the Hogwarts' student body, which Jo has said is about 1,000, where it really is more like 200 to 300. Or the Tonks's pregnancy, which did not follow the normal rules of gestation AT ALL.
FOLLOW THROUGH ON YOUR OWN LESSONS
One of my biggest disappointments with DH was the lack of school unity, which was one of the big themes in the series up until that point. But no, Hogwarts survived just fine with every single Gryffindor, most Hufflepuffs, some Ravenclaws, and one Slytherin (Horace Slughorn). In the end, Slytherin was made out to truly be evil just for the sake of being evil - there was no bonding or binding of the houses.
NEVILLE AND LUNA NEED SOME SMOOCHIES
Just personally for me, it's Neville and Luna together for ever, but that's the angry shipper inside of me speaking.
SERIOUSLY, THOUGH, LUNA LONGBOTTOM ALL THE WAY
Stop that! At least there wasn't anything about them in canon, so we can choose to disregard what Jo said afterwards about Neville and Luna, and pretend they got married and lived happily ever after on a Crumple-Horned Snorcack reservation.
NEEDZ MOAR EDATENG
Continuity Editing to be precise, more specifically, for the first few books. They got Cheryl McSomething to do the last few, but there are some typos in the first few books, like in the sorting when it says that the last person to get sorted would be Harry, and as he walks back from the Sorting, Zabini gets sorted. Or the fact that this alphabetical order for some reason has "Weasley" go before "Potter".
So, in conclusion, to answer the questioner's questions, No.
Changes to movies: Get a good director and KEEP IT (why did they get rid of Cuaron? Why?!); don't be afraid to make the movies 3 hours long; and redo Sirius's death scene.
Changes to books: Follow through on your own lessons and morals; Luna Longbottom; and NEEDZ MOAR EDATENG.
That's about it! If you actually slogged through this entire thing, my sincerest congratulations!
There were lots of villains. Internal/external. Ludo Bagman, being one. A lowlife villain, directed towards the Weasely twins. bellatrix, hatred towards Sirius and Harry. Voldemort, hates everyone and everything, and possibly mentally disturbed. And Draco Malfoy. From the Golden Trio's POV, Malfoy was a villain, and Snape. They might not all have been evil, but somewhere, somehow, to the characters, they were villains.
I dont mean to sound rude, but have you even read the books? I mean, there are other villians...Voldermort only starts playing a major role after book 4. And even in Book 4, 5 and 6, he isnt really always present. The other villians (or so called villians) have a more dominant role. Such as Snape,Umbridge, Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix. So no, I dont think anything should be changed. If it was, it would take sooo much away from the series. Voldermort might be the leading antagonists, but there are others...even on the good side, such as scrimegoeur...and even Fudge.
There are more villains other than Voldemort, there is Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucious Malfoy, Wormtail and many other death eaters and various dark creatures. If you have read the last book you will know that the book hardly takes place at Hogwarts. Perhaps you should reread the books before you interject on how they can be improved.
Well, the other villains would need a motive, and that would mean a another subplot/ plot. The books are already long, but adding another plot would make them gigantic.
It is what it is. If the story were changed it wouldn't be Harry Potter. It would be something else, wouldn't it?
don't read it
