Why Harry Potter Didn't Show Dumbledore's Funeral (& Why It Should Have)
Albus Dumbledore's (Michael Gambon) funeral in Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince was a very emotional scene in J.K. Rowling's book, yet the movie didn't show it — here's why. The eight-movie series was overall very loyal to Rowling's books, with producer David Heyman even splitting the last Harry Potter book into two films in order to do justice to the book's very dense story. However, the Harry Potter movies did leave out some important book moments, such as The Order of the Phoenix Quidditch season, or all of Peeves the Poltergeist's scenes, which were filmed with Rik Mayall but eventually cut from the first movie.
In The Half-Blood Prince book, Dumbledore's funeral gathers «an extraordinary assortment of people» on Hogwarts' grounds to pay their respects to the great wizard. Olympe Maxime, Rufus Scrimgeour, Cornelius Fudge, Ernie Prang (the Knight Bus driver), Tom (The Leaky Cauldron landlord), Aberforth Dumbledore, the Order of the Phoenix members, the Weasleys, Grawp, centaurs, Merpeople, and even Rita Skeeter and the evil Dolores Umbridge all attend the event. The ceremony saw the Merpeople rise from the lake and sing, and "a little tufty-haired man" give a speech Harry finds inappropriately bland. As white flames surround Dumbledore's body and turn the simple wooden table under him into a white marble tomb, the centaurs send a shower of arrows through the air, scaring some of the attendees. Instead of this ample scene, The Half-Blood Prince movie shows the scene where everyone surrounds Dumbledore’s body and raises their wands in unison to clear the Dark Mark in the sky.
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