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Harry Potter Snape Death Scene Changed

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The Harry Potter film series remained as faithful as possible to the books, but fans were disappointed when Harry Potter Snape Death Scene was altered in the final film.

Harry Potter Snape Death Scene Changed
Harry Potter Snape Death Scene Changed

The Harry Potter film series did a good job of adapting J.K. Rowling’s book series into a movie series, but there were obviously some changes that had to be made either for narrative or creative reasons, and not all of these were well received. The Harry Potter book series was adapted into a movie series by the Harry Potter film series.

The location of Snape’s death in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 may have seemed like a relatively insignificant change, but it was one that did not go over well with fans.

The first film in the Harry Potter series was released in 2001, and the last film in the series was released in 2011. The final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was adapted into two separate films.

The second installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows stayed as faithful as possible to the source material, making only a few changes to make it more consistent with the first film in the series; however, these changes were made to significant parts of the narrative.

A few examples of this include Fred Weasley’s passing and the final duel that took place between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort; however, the death of Snape seems to have been the one that fans found most upsetting because the setting for it was altered, and as a result, some truly special moments and details from the book were omitted.

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But as is the case with every movie based on a book, every alteration that was made was done so for a specific reason, and this was the case with Snape’s demise in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.

The Real Reason Harry Potter Snape Death Scene Was Changed In The Movie

Harry Potter Snape Death Scene Changed
Harry Potter Snape Death Scene Changed

In the story, Lord Voldemort and the other members of his Death Eater cult used the Shrieking Shack as a hiding place. There, Voldemort gave Nagini the order to kill Snape, and Harry, Hermione, and Ron watched from their hiding spot as Nagini carried out the order (they were covered by the invisibility cloak).

In the film, Snape was murdered by Voldemort and Nagini in the Boathouse, which is actually an underground harbor at Hogwarts. However, the Boathouse appears to be an above-ground structure in the film. Andrew Ackland-Snow, who serves as the art director for the Harry Potter series, claims that.

Rowling gave her blessing to the change in the setting, which was done to give the scene a more dramatic atmosphere and to remove it from an interior that was already familiar to the viewers.

Because it removed the possibility of a compelling foreshadowing event, the fact that Snape did not perish in the Shrieking Shack was a source of understandable disappointment for fans. When it came to the Shack, Snape did not have the best of luck: in 1975, he was unable to

When he discovered that Sirius Black was hiding under the Whomping Willow in 1994, he was disarmed and knocked unconscious. He had been told by Sirius Black that if he went under the whomping willow, he would find out what was wrong with Remus, who was in werewolf form and could have killed Snape on the spot if he had gone the whomping willow.

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It was a tragic “third time’s a charm” situation that added more to Snape’s story, and it would have been interesting to see it play out on the big screen as it truly was. The situation added more depth to Snape’s character.

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