Rereading Harry Potter: Am I remembering the movie or did they greatly change the book?
When I first read Harry Potter I was stationed in Europe and purchased the UK version. I’m currently reading the US version, I’m on book two, and I keep having situations where things are not how I remembered them. For example, I thought when Hermione first meet Harry in book one she fixed his broken glasses? Also, didn’t Neville knock himself out while replanting a mandrake? Am I just wrong, remembering the movie, or are the changes in the two versions more than just simple localization (IE changing mummy to mommy)?
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You’re confusing it with the movie :/
that stuff did happen in the movie and in the book. it is possible that the UK version and the US version are a little different but i think you just might be remembering the movie.
You are thinking about the movies in both the cases.
Hermione just says she’s tried a few simple spells at home and they’ve all worked for her. She never demonstrates anything on the train in Book 1. In the movie, she repairs Harry’s glasses. In book 2, its Arthur Weasley who repairs the glasses, not Hermione, as she cannot to magic out of school during the holidays.
Neville doesn’t faint in Herbology. I’ve always found it a bit silly that in the movie, after putting on the ear muffs, everyone can hear what Professor Sprout can say and yet its only Neville who faints for "neglecting his ear muffs". In the book, however, all sound is totally blocked by the muffs. Neville comes out unscathed. His best subject is herbology, after all.