Missed two important parts

Rating: 7/10 (8 June 2004)

This was the first of the Harry Potter books that I read after seeing the first two movies. My son read the book, so I picked it up to make sure he read it, and was really good. The two parts that were missing I though were important and easy to do so I don't understand why they were left out! The first, is no explanation of how they know Sirius Black set up the Potters. The second was the Marauders Map, how did Prof. Lupin know how to use it. That shows just how close the four friends really were and why everyone thought that Black was so evil their nicknames on the map were not even mentioned. Hopefully, that will be on the DVD. Otherwise it was very good.
The effects are very good, the creature looked very believable. If I didn't read the book I may have enjoyed it more.