In the late nineties, J.K. Rowling released the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, with no idea how it would affect the world. By 2000, the series had six more books, an incredible following, and every child in the world knew Harry Potter´s name. Just like any good book franchise, directors and fans were ready to make and watch movies based on the series. By the late 2000s, there were seven successful movies that hit the silver screen. Fans loved the movies but couldn’t help but notice the details the directors had left out that added to the story. Fans noticed that Harry wasn’t represented correctly, Peeves the not-so-friendly-ghost was nowhere to be seen, SPEW never happened, and Alice and Frank Longbottom were nowhere in sight.  
Harry Potter is famously known for his lightning-shaped scar and his circular glasses, but his minor details confuse many. In the books, Harry is described to have his father´s hard-to-tame black hair and eyesight problems and his mother´s green eyes. An example of this description is when Hagrid meets Harry for the first time. He looks and Harry and says, ¨Yeh look a lot like your dad, but yeh´ve got yer mom´s eyes. ¨ (Rowling, 1997, p. 47, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer´s Stone) In the movies, Harry is portrayed with his famous glasses, put together hair, and blue eyes. With basically every character pointing out Harry´s similar eye color to his mother, fans were confused by why the producers would change Harry´s eyes from green to blue. When asked to explain their choice, producers made clear that they were going to have Harry´s eyes be green. They explained that when the actor that portrayed Harry, Daniel Radcliffe, put in the green contacts he had a reaction to the contacts. Fans accepted the fact but want to know how the author felt about the minor change. Rowling was ok with the change because she just wanted Harry and his mother to have a similar eye color. It didn’t matter if they were green or blue, she wanted Harry to have something that reminded characters who Harry´s mom was.  
When Harry first comes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he was introduced to the local ghosts and ghouls of the castle. From the more-then-welcoming Nearly Headless Nick to the terrifying Bloody Barren, many stuck out with their personalities. One ghost who stuck out was the poltergeist Peeves. Peeves cause trouble for the teachers, students, and even other ghosts throughout the school year. ¨Nearly Headless Nick was always happy to point new Gryffindors in the right direction, but Peeves the Poltergeist was worth two locked doors and a trick staircase if you met him when you were late for class. ¨ (Rowling, 1997, p. 132, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) He was a prankster who couldn't be controlled by the Slytherins house ghost, the Bloody Barren. Readers were upset that they couldn’t see the problems and fun Peeves had shown throughout the books in the movies. Peeves could have brought comedic relief to the action-packed films.  
In the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Hermione Granger witnessed the unfair treatment of elves in the wizarding world. She decided that all creatures should be able to have rights, so she created SPEW, which is also known as Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare. For centuries house-elves have served rich families until they are given an article of clothing. Hermione wanted elves to have a stand-in wizard law and have their own opinions. She believes they should have holidays and to be paid for their labor. Even though she put her all into the organization, elves didn’t want to leave their ¨families. ¨ They only knew how to serve and didn’t know how to survive by themselves. In the movies, SPEW was completely cut. It was hard to see Hermione's selflessness be cut out of the films.  
In the Order of Phoenix, the fifth book in the series, Ron Weasley´s father is attacked by Voldemort's snake Nagini. He is sent to St. Mungo´s Hospital for immediate care. Harry and Hermione join Ron in visiting Mr. Weasley in the hospital. While wandering the noisy halls of Mungo's, they run into a fellow student, Neville Longbottom, along with his grandmother and a rather mute couple. When asked, Neville's grandmother explained that the couple was Neville´s parents. Alice and Frank Longbottom were tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange and were left mute and unaware of their surroundings. They were tortured because Neville was one of the people who could have killed Voldemort. The movies completely cut out their story, and only mentioned them twice. Once when Harry was shown a picture of the members of the Order of Phenix, and secondly when Mad-Eye Moody makes Neville watch a spider be tormented by the same curse his parents were tortured with, the Cruciatus curse. If the producers had left them in the story, the couple could have brought another side to the possibility of Neville being the boy who could kill Voldemort. 
This series, besides the differences, were extremely successful and have an amazing fan base. J.K. Rowling had in fact completed her goal to have every child in the world know Harry Potter´s name. Even though some of the fan's favorite moments were left out, both the movies and the books carry the same plot and magical world. Producers couldn’t involve every part of the books onto the silver screen, but they can put it into a TV show! Can you imagine, a show with seasons based on each book and with every episode being a chapter. Producers wouldn’t have to leave out any details and could stay within their time limits. They could include all the details left out like Harry's true appearance, Peeves, SPEW, and even Alice and Frank Longbottom's tragic story.