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Originally Posted by CedricsGryffindorGirl

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-- The difference in roles from Hermione in the books compared to the big screen?
This could be a discussion about how Harry Potter readers have different perspectives on Hermione in the books and in the movie.

So how do you think Hermione's roles differ from the books to movies? How is she different? How is she the same? Do you think she got the role she deserved? Should there be more Hermione in the movies? Less? Why? or Why not?

Hermione was described to have bushy hair & large teeth in the books, but she was a beauty in the films. That differs her in the books & films. The similarity, she's still an insufferable know-it-all. I thinks she had enough screentime in the films. Just right.

Here is how I would describe her differences between book and film. In the book she was more brainy with some beauty. I pictured her as an extremely smart girl, but never really imagined her to be more grown up and beautiful until around the Yule Ball. In the movies she is more of a beauty with some brains. I think in the movies she started to be more grown up and beautiful sometime around the third book. Nothing to complain there, Emma Watson is a beautiful person, but she just growed up faster. I feel that they didn't portray Hermione's brains enough in the movies.

I think the role of Hermione in the movies was great. She had just enough time, if not more starring moments that were not in the books. One example is when she slaps Malfoy, which wasn't in the books, but was a great addition. It showed that she wasn't only a sweet girl. There is one part in the movies that I didn't like. In the fourth movie when the twins have just finished the ageing potion and are about to jump in. Hermione looks straight at the camera and says "It's not going to work." It was just to cheesy for me.

I think, for the most part, book!Hermione and movie!Hermione are pretty much the same. She was one of the ones I feel like they did really, really well in transitioning her character from book to film. The biggest difference I can think of is that she's described as pretty plain in the books and by J.K. Rowling in the conversation between her and Daniel on the DH2 Blu-ray, but in the movies she's really beautiful. Which can't really be blamed on anything except genetics So I don't really have that big of a problem with it.

And I think she got the right amount of screentime in the movies, basically same as the amount she has in the books. Or maybe a little less than what the books had, since the last four are huge and some of the stuff from it had to be cut, like S.P.E.W. But still, with what they could fit into the movies, I think she had the right amount - not too much and not too little.

That was in the book Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter Fifteen: The Quidditch Final, page 293, US edition Granted, in the book it was more of a slap while in the movie it looks more like a punch, but it's awesome of her either way, imo

I think she was more in your face kind of thing in the books. She didn't let Harry and Ron get away with as much, and showed her disapproval more. In the movie, she was a bit too, but I didn't think as much.

I think in the movies she could have been more irritated by the way Harry and Ron treated her, had more of a part, then she did. She portrayed some of the Hermione from the books, but could have been so much more!