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Saturday, August 6, 2011 Posted by Television at 8:00 AM

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ONLINE PETITION: Persuade Warner Bros. to produceHarry Potter Extended Versions

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 05:37 AM PDT

An online petition is becoming a hot topic on web for the past 20 hours. And here is the online petition, which I also supported


NOTE: Please share this petition with as many people as possible! Put the link on your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, wherever you can.

NOTE 2: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DONATE, when you reach that screen, your signature has already gone through, do NOT worry about donating, just close the page.

Dear Harry Potter fans,

As a massive fan of the Harry Potter franchise (both books and films), I think that I speak for all of us when I say that it's been a long haul, but it's been absolutely, unquestionably worth it.

As I'm sure many of you are aware, everything doesn't make it into the films. Due to time contraints, the films can't have every single scene that we would like. On the special features of the Harry Potter DVDs and Blu-Rays, you will often find Deleted Scenes that were cut because they were either unfinished, or they made the film too long.



Now that the final film of the Harry Potter saga has been released to the cinema (to critical acclaim and box office success, I might add), I thought this would be an appropriate time to make this petition, as a huge amount of Harry Potter fans are online to voice their opinion on the final film and are gearing themselves up for Pottermore.



The point of this petition is to persuade Warner Bros. to produce Extended Versions of the Harry Potter films for a DVD/Blu-Ray release.


From various photographs, set reports and interviews, there is actually a huge amount of content that has been filmed that we have not seen.



Did you know that Order Of The Phoenix had a whopping 45-minutes of content cut from the film? (http://m.leakynews.com/2006/10/27/ootp-director-david-yates-i-ve-shot-a-movie-that-s-probably-over-three-hours)


The majority of that cut footage has not been released to the general public, including such scenes as:



-The brain room in the Department Of Mysteries.

-The full battle at the Ministry.

-The full "Snape's Worst Memory" flashback.
-Umbridge and Ministry employees trying to remove Hagrid from the school and Professor McGonagall attempting to protect him.

-A later scene of McGonagall recovering from the attack in a wheelchair.



And this is just from one film. Imagine the plethora of footage from all eight films that Warner Bros. has hidden away!
Here are several videos which contain images and footage of scenes that we have not seen in the completed films which could be consider for Extended Versions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5cqPIdb3c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO2tKOakVqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4IyEw1LWoo

If I have not persuaded you yet, then I will point you towards the Extended Editions of the Lord Of The Rings films, which were absolutely transformed with extra footage and became far more faithful to the novels.


I beg you Harry Potter fans, if we all pull together and sign this petition, then we can persuade Warner Bros. to produce Extended Versions of these films that have enchanted us for 10 years.

Please share this petition with as many people as possible! Put the link on your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, wherever you can.

To sign this online petition just simply click HERE

For those with Tumblr, please reblog THIS post to spread the word.

Dumbledore's Army!

Thanks to Jordy for the tip

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