"Harry Potter": Books vs. Movies Quiz

Answer: Nigel

He seems to be a replacement for the Creevey brothers (Colin & Dennis), although I don't know why. Peeves is the bane of Filch's existence, Binns is the only ghost professor (History), and Winky is Barty Crouch's house-elf - to begin with, at least.

Answer: "Probably just Peeves playing jokes."

This is in the first movie, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone", when Ron is speculating as to how the troll might have gotten into the castle. This is more-or-less a quote from the book, as are the rest. The line about Peeves showing respect for teachers is in reference to the way he treats Lupin.

Answer: attempts unsuccessfully to use "Alohomora" to open a door in Sorcerer's Stone

In fact, Ron is the one shown doing this in the movie ("Sorcerer's Stone"), leaving the watcher to wonder if Hermione might have succeeded where he failed. Mr. Weasley repairs Harry's glasses (but not until "Chamber of Secrets"), Dobby explains about the Room of Requirement ("Order of the Phoenix"), and Dumbledore, naturally, says that lovely quote about fear of a name ("Sorcerer's Stone").

Answer: Harry, reads about him on the back of a chocolate frog card

Harry thought all along that he'd read the name somewhere, but couldn't remember just where - until Neville handed him a Dumbledore chocolate frog card, identical to the first Harry had ever seen.

Answer: Flitwick

Apparently Quirrell needed the extra airtime, as he's such a vital part of this story and movies have so little time to make characters important to the audience. In the book, Harry wondered if "Wood" was a cane that McGonagall was going to use on him.

Answer: "Goblet of Fire", the Weasley twins sprout beards after using an aging potion to "fool" the age line

I like playing a game called "Why did they change that?" In "Chamber of Secrets", the flight to Hogwarts always did seem surprisingly uneventful to me. In "Sorcerer's Stone", this is a great laugh - Rowling surely would have put this in if she'd thought of it (as script consultant, maybe she did!). In "Half-Blood Prince", there is no earthly reason I can think of for adding this.

Answer: His father broke him out by replacing him with his ailing wife.

He did indeed! On a side note, neither the Crouches nor the Riddles use the junior/senior appellation. This often happens when father and son have different middle names (remember, "Marvolo" is Voldemort's maternal grandfather). It's a little thing, but important in explaining why the name "Barty Crouch" appears on the Marauder's Map that year - "junior" might have given it away.

Answer: a spell that bewitches players

In the book, we later discover that Krum was imperiused by Barty Crouch (as Mad-Eye Moody) to attack other players as a way of ensuring that Harry reaches the cup first - in the movie, he's bewitched by a spell within the maze.

Answer: They have a disastrous date showing how little they have in common, and later Cho defends her friend who was the one who ratted out the DA (sans Veritaserum).

Cho also becomes insanely jealous of Hermione (not Ginny). Harry does get sick of hearing her talk about Cedric, but not enough to do anything about it. Seeing Ginny and Dean in the corridor comes later, in "Half-Blood Prince".

Answer: Mad-Eye Moody, Grimmauld Place, in a misguided attempt to cheer him up

Again, movies have limited time to establish characters. The relationship between Harry and Sirius is especially important in this book/movie, so this vignette is portrayed as a warm bonding moment between godson and father-figure.