A crucial scene that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince had not been transferred from the book to the film would have radically changed the wizard’s universe.
Harry Potter and the halfblood Prince, the sixth installment in the popular fantasy series, has an impressive runtime of 2 hours and 33 minutes. However, he still had to significantly reduce his production. To adapt Half-Blood Prince, the film eliminated 11 major scenes from the sixth Harry Potter book, and one of them would have completely reclassified the wizarding world.
No Muggle Bridge: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince omits the scene from the first book
The sixth part of Harry Potter begins very differently than the film: in it we meet the Prime Minister of England, who is thinking about the latest incidents and dark events that have occurred in the country when he receives a visit from the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge.
We thus learn that the English wizarding world informs the British Muggle leader of magical threats in times of need. This includes the escapes of dangerous prisoners from Azkaban, as well as the terrible news of Voldemort’s return. In the first chapter, Fudge also reveals his dismissal as Minister of Magic to the surprised British Prime Minister and introduces his successor, Rufus Scrimgeour.
The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince presents itself right from the beginning, with the explosion of the Millennium Bridge…
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