There is a full "kiss" in harry potter 5. even though in the book there is none. there is one in sixth part but that should be in the next movie. isnt it a lil too much. i mean like it has lost its childish touch. but i guess they are growing up so it was bound to come sooner or later. still i think that it should have been according to the book.

Uhm...Sweet! Agree with you.

Lol whatever works :)

Whats wrong with having the scene??

Hm,.... i think our characters are growing very fast and it's matter not if have this scence...

~!~Lixu

Uhm.. wow. Where to start.

First of all, I think Warner Brothers has done a remarkable job attempting to keep the films as close to the books as they can. Movies are extremely expensive to make, especially when incorporating CG -which costs around 75 cents per frame if I am not mistaken (and there are 28 frames in a second). Because of the expense and the fact that people won't sit though a 6 hour movie (unless it is Gone with the Wind) WB had to cut the films down to the most important pieces. Besides that, they follow Jo explicitly on what she wants the movie to look like, what she wants left in or out, and even follow directional cues by Mrs. Rowling. Do you know how rare it is that a movie studio would follow an author's intentions that closely? Normally a studio will buy out the author so they can molest their work.

Having said that, you're saying the kiss never happened. I remember it differently:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (pgs. 456-458)

They looked at each other for a long moment. Harry felt a burning desire to run from the room and, at the same time, a complete inability to move his feet.

'Mistletoe,' said Cho quietly, pointing at the ceiling over his head.

'Yeah,' said Harry. His mouth was very dry. 'It's probably full of Nargles, though.'

'What are Nargles?'

'No idea,' said Harry. She had moved closer. His brain seemed to have been Stunned. 'You'd have to ask Loony. Luna, I mean.'

Cho made a funny noise halfway between a sob and a laugh. She was even nearer to him now. He could have counted the freckles on her nose.

'I really like you, Harry.'

He could not think. A tingling sensation was spreading through him, paralysing his arms, legs and brain. She was much too close. He could see every tear clinging to her eyelashes…

(a few paragraphs later)

"Did you kiss?" asked Hermione.

Ron sat up so fast that he sent his ink bottle flying all over the rug. Disregarding the completely he stared avidly at Harry.

"Well?" he demanded.

Harry looked from Ron's expression of mingled curiosity and hilarity to Hermione's slight frown, and nodded.

Worrying about a kiss is ridiculous. Many people are tortured and killed in these stories. We see pain and anguish from many folks. There is quite a lot of hate and violence in these stories and you are concerned over a kiss? I think the romance is very important to the storyline. If it were absent I believe that Jo would lose most of her female audience. I think the love story between Hermione and Ron is a wonderful display of how many adolescence feel while attempting to learn how to cope with relationships and rejection. So by reading this story, they can identify with the characters and not think themselves a freak of nature.

I think Harry's relationship in book 6...

SPOILER (click to view)

.. is the most important of all. He gives up his love for Ginny because he doesn't want her to be hurt or killed. This shows he is growing up and taking responsibility. It shows he is the hero we need him to be in order to take Voldemort down thereby avenging his parents, Sirius and Dumbledore.

Finally, Harry Potter isn't just for little kids. Adults and young adults love it as well. It is foolish to eliminate parts of story because you're afraid you'll offend someone. And worrying about something as innocent as a kiss is just silly. It isn't as though they are having orgy's left and right. That comes in book 6. Hahaha...

I agree with LenasLover completly. Its just a kiss. I mean, they killed off whats-his-name in the Goblet of Fire, and thats ok...but a kiss? Heaven's no! If anything, it betters the movie. It gives it life and reality.

Think about it. Harry would be roughly about 15-16 in the next movie, and teens have been known to start dating at as young as 13, so he's plently mature enough for a kiss scene.

I don't see much of a problem with a kissing scene, the characters are maturing after all.

I'd like to add something to Lenaslover post, unfortanely, I started to read Harry Potter when I was 23, but even for me it's very clear that the characters and the book are growing up along with the readers, besides when you're making a movie, it's very difficult to show feelings, so, in my opinion, that's the reason to show a kiss

Movies tend to alter the plot a bit which includes addition of romantic scenes... I just come to accept it.

In a way, i expect things to have more "spice" (does not just imply romance) in movies.. something added that is supposed to have a "more powerful/enjoyable" effect, to put it in a way.

Was it really necessary to make a topic about it? Sorry for going off topic but, really.

I agree pretty much with what Lena said.

Plus, it's not like kissing is anything that adult oriented. People can kiss for different reasons and two kids kissing would definitely not make a movie innapropriate for children. How many disney movies do you remember that ended with the hero and heroine kissing? Too many to count.

In other words, get over it.

It's understandable why they would show it in the movie since it kind of adds to the hype. People like seeing romance in their movies, which is probably one reason most movies have romance or sex scenes in them.
Seeing Harry kiss Cho will just add to the drama which will drag the fans in.

I personally don't mind as long as they're not making out. That's just disgusting to watch in my opinion. X_x

What's wrong with a kiss? In modern Western culture, kissing is most commonly an expression of affection. This is unlike many parts of the world where kissing is viewed as a means of respecting others.

Between people of close acquaintance, a kiss, often reciprocal, is offered as a greeting or farewell. This kind of kiss is typically made by brief contact of puckered lips to the skin of the cheek or no contact at all, and merely performed in the air near the cheek with the cheeks touching. Such kissing is a common greeting in European and Latin American countries between a man and a woman or between two women but also by two men in part of the Middle East and parts of Europe and Latin America. People sometimes kiss children to comfort them or show affection, and vice versa. This usually takes place on the forehead or cheek.

Also, fairy tales and Disney movies have kissing in them too, between the prince and the damsel. Those stories are 'childish', and I don't see why Harry Potter would lose its 'childish touch' because of this silly kiss. Furthermore, throughout the series, Harry is growing up from a child to a teenager and then to a young adult. It's only natural that he would experience some of these adolescence experiences, right? Besides, I'm sure most of those who've watched the movie have read the books as well, and I think they've already known that there'll be a kissing scene.

LenasLover has given a good point. You see agony and pain and torture and blood in many movies. There's a lot of violence not just in movies, but in daily television shows. Watch the children channels sometime. You would see violence in there as well, so why worry over a simple display of affection when you should actually fret about violence in shows instead?


"Why, Mr. Anderson, why? Why do you persist!?" -Smith, The Matrix Revolutions

I don't mind..It's just spices. Harry's growing up and so the reader. And it's just a kiss..