Parchment Paths

The most recent adaption of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express has been out for some time now, but I only just recently watched it. I’d already seen two other movie versions and wasn’t sure how I felt about another being made. The plot is ingenious, but it does not always translate well to screen, also Hercule Poirot is an amazing but difficult to reproduce character.           Though it had been awhile since I read the book, I could tell right away that some aspects of the story had been changed for the movie.   A whole new case (at least new to me) is created to explain why Poirot is traveling on the train.   The book does begin with him wrapping up a case, but very few details are given, whereas the movie has him giving a brief recap of the case and revealing the culprit.            Without spoiling the movie by explaining all of changes, I can say that while the plot remains basically the same, some characters have been renamed, given new nationalities, and h

One of my favorite scenes from the Harry Potter books never made it into the movies. It’s from the last book, The Deathly Hallows . Things are not going well for Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley.  The three teenagers are hunted by a corrupt government and separated from friends and family as fear and evil spread over the Magic and non-magic worlds.             The three find themselves at a school friend’s home. While the point of the visit was to speak to her father, in the book the trio wonder into her room during the visit, where they find that their friend, Luna, has covered her walls with paintings of not just them, but of a few of their other friends as well. Linking the portraits are what look like gold chains, but what is really the word “friend “repeated over and over again in gold script.  It was then that they realized not only how much Luna cared for them, but how much they cared for her.  Sometimes we get so caught up in our ordinary lives that we t