Script online

[Lolua]

The Internet Movie Script Database now has the shooting scripts for the second and third Harry Potter films.

Chamber of Secrets script: www.imsdb.com/scripts/Harry-Potter-and-the-Chamber-of-Secrets.html
Info: www.imsdb.com/Movie%20Scripts/Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Chamber%20of%20Secrets%20Script.html

Prisoner of Azkaban script: www.imsdb.com/scripts/Harry-Potter-and-the-Prisoner-of-Azkaban.html
Info: www.imsdb.com/Movie%20Scripts/Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Prisoner%20of%20Azkaban%20Script.html

A few things I learned skimming them:

• This draft version of the Chamber of Secrets script calls for a dramatic hanging-out-of-the-car scene over the garden of Number 4, Privet Drive in addition to the one in the movie over the moving Hogwarts Express.
  
• The now famous and oft-referenced Mr. Weasley line "What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?" was once "What exactly is the function of a parking meter?" which isn't nearly as funny. I seem to remember reading an interview with one of the Weasley kids in which they said that Mark Williams did the line differently for each take. I'm glad they went with "rubber duck" for the final cut.
  
• The dialogue between Lucius and Harry in Dumbledore's office at the end of CoS seems to have indeed been improvised, as had been reported: neither "Let us hope that Mr. Potter is always around to save the day" nor "Don't worry, I will be" are in the script.
  
• Finally, an answer to the mystery of the melodramatic, unidenitifiable Gryffindor boy in Prisoner of Azkaban. In the scripted first Divination lesson, it is Lavender Brown who reads off the definition of the Grim from the textbook. Later, when Seamus brings news that Sirius Black has been spotted nearby, Lavender has more lines that have since been given to others, and the strange boy only speaks at the end of the scene, in the line about "trying to catch smoke with your bare hands." He is identified as "Bem, a Nigerian boy." Is Kloves trying to reference something or is he just being utterly random?
  
• In the first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson in PoA, the script calls for Parvati's boggart to be a vampire, later dressed as Carmen Miranda, and for Dean Thomas' greatest fear to prompt the appearance of the cobra-turned-evil-clown-thing. It seems that Dean got left on the cutting room floor. I suppose that a vampire with a funny hat would have been too much like a retread of boggart-Snape. :-P
  
• The problematic content of Snape's off-screen lecture on werewolves, in which he discusses the "several" ways to become a werewolf (), doesn't appear in the script. This supports my suspicions that Alan Rickman ad-libbed the whole thing.
  
• The Snape vs. Sirius dialogue in the Shrieking Shack is much punchier in the film version, "chemistry set" or no. :-P
  
• As the film's collectible trading cards suggest, the PoA script does have Lupin explaining that James transformed into a stag. However, I've yet to find the explanation of the Marauder's Map's creation; there aren't even any hints at it in the scene where Lupin first reveals that he knows it's a map.

[Mlle Bienvenu]

Aww darn...was really interested in that speech about the werewolves.... Snapes inability to tell a kappa from a boggart strikes again ... hehehee....