10 Behind The Scenes Reasons For Harry Potter Character Traits
6. The Death Eaters Ditch Their Pointy Hats
Fans often point out the Death Eaters' sudden and unexplained design change between Goblet of Fire and Half-Blood Prince. In Goblet of Fire, they're wearing large, pointy hats, which were ditched without rhyme or reason for Half-Blood Prince.
But we can once again turn to costume designer Jany Temime for answers, as the decision to change-up their look was ultimately a practical filmmaking one above all else, because keeping the pointed hats in frame was too difficult:
"The first Death Eaters that I designed for film are very different... I use that Ku [Klux] Klan hat because it started in the camp site. You could just see the top of the points, that was a very frightening image... [The look] was limiting... We designed another and then I got the idea of masks... when we put the mask on then the whole costume was more frightening."
Though the original KKK-inspired design is itself fairly divisive with fans - some seeing it as hamfistedly obvious - others were just baffled to see the Death Eaters of all people suddenly deciding to change their duds.