![]() ![]() You want to honour the characters that so many people love and have been on this huge journey with. She even went to producer David Heyman and offered some of her paycheck so the scene could be in the movie. In an episode on James and Oliver Phelps’ (Fred and George Weasley) podcast, Normal Not Normal, Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) revealed that she was not happy with the decision to cut Dumbledore’s funeral from the film. But I love that scene, it’s a beautiful scene in the book, but it felt wrong in the movie. And then you got to this grand funeral, and it felt less about the man and more about the pomp of the ceremony, and it felt oddly less connected. And then we went to the Great Hall and this austerity… it sort of felt weirdly complete. So you would read the script and you’d get to Dumbledore’s death, and it felt climactic and moving. That scene was in and out, and in and out again… it was a rhythmic thing, it felt weirdly book-ended. Speaking to Hypable, the director David Yates revealed why it got cut: ![]() However ultimately it was cut from the script, and the scene was never filmed. Concept art of the funeral was created, as seen below. Early in development of the Half-Blood Prince movie, Dumbledore’s funeral was supposed to be included in the film. ![]()
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