13 Movie Moments That Surprised The Hell Out Of The Audience
10. Tell It Like It Is! - Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part II
All of the Hogwarts students are roused out of bed and ordered to march down to the Great Hall for an important announcement by the rarely-seen Headmaster Snape (Alan Rickman): Harry Potter has been sighted in Hogsmeade. After a nasty admonition about how withholding information about Potter will be treated in the harshest possible manner (delivered in Rickmans most supercilious tones), he invites anyone with knowledge of Harrys whereabouts to step forward now. There's a moment of silence, then a stunned gasp as someone walks into the centre aisle, and holy hippogriffs, its only HARRY himself! He rips Snape on his security measures (as the rest of the members of the Order of the Phoenix walk in), and then tears into him on the subject of Dumbledores death. Yes, we as the audience knew that Harry was already in the castle, and we knew that Snape knew about Harrys appearance in Hogsmeade (even though he was actually never seen by the Death Eaters), but this dramatic appearance by Harry in the middle of the Hogwarts crowd was one of those galvanizing moments, especially when he told the school what really happened up on the Astronomy tower the previous year. This is a much more emotionally satisfying moment than was presented in the novel, which had Harry hiding under the Invisibility Cloak with Luna Lovegood while Professor McGonagall confronted Snape. One might speculate that the idea was taken the book in the moment when Harry took off the Cloak in the middle of the Great Hall to face Voldemort in the final battle.
