Thursday, May 26, 2011

How will Harry find the diadem in the final film?

Help me to understand this.

In the novel The Half-Blood Prince, Harry hides his potions book inside a cabinet in the Room of Requirement and marks the place where he put it by placing a strange sculpture and a rusty tiara on top of the cabinet. This is important because, at the climax of The Deathly Hallows, Harry remembers hiding his potions book and, more specifically, recalls that he used a tiara to mark the spot, a tiara which he then realises is actually the lost diadem of Ravenclaw. This diadem, of course, is a Horcrux.

In the movie version of The Half-Blood Prince, on the other hand, Ginny hides the book while Harry keeps his eyes closed, so he won't be tempted to go looking for it again. Harry never sees the tiara nor does he use it to mark the spot where the book is hidden.

So how are they going to deal with this in the final film? How are they going to explain how Harry suddenly knows where the diadem is?

2 comments:

  1. He will wonder back into the room of requirement, and the diadem will just "catch his eye" at the right moment.

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  2. Thanks, Jake, for your comment. I think that's exactly what will happen. But how will Harry even think to go into the Room of Requirement in the first place? It's a headscratcher.

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