# 2: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Maggie Smith

as Professor Minerva McGonagall 

in

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Screentime: 3 minutes and 11 seconds (2.43% of film)

Order of the Phoenix is an entertaining installment, that mainly focuses on the Ministry of Magic and its interference on Hogwarts as well as romance, exams and secret societies. The film features an Oscar nomination worthy performance from Imelda Staunton (I could also see Brenda Blethyn do wonders with the role), and sticks very closely to the book. Again a very well done film. 

FILM: 4/5

Maggie I believe has either a total of 4 of 5 lines in the film. A third of her screentime is in the background at the first great hall scene, she was utterly wasted in her part. I believe in the book, she attempts to help Hagrid when he is being evicted from the school grounds and gets multiple stunning spells to the chest, causing her to go to hospital. There are set photos of Maggie filming additional scenes, but they do not even appear on the DVD (they most likely were removed early on without any post-production editing). 

MAGGIE-METER: 1/5

 "Oh, there are several things I would like to say!"

# 1: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Maggie Smith

as Professor Minerva McGonagall 

in

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Screentime: 3 minutes and 7 seconds (2.42% of film)

Prisoner of Azkaban, is in my opinion the best Potter film, along with both of the Deathly Hallows finales. I feel 'Prisoner' was the beginning of a more mature and adultish focus on the books and with Alfonso Cuaron’s unique direction (he later did the amazing Children of Men (2006)), the overall film was quite brilliant. Radcliffe’s voice broke, Emma Watson started blossoming and Gary Oldman gave a wicked performance as Sirius Black. I might add it was probably the most entertaining book. 

Film: 4/5

As for dear Maggie, she is barely in it. I mean she unfortunately gets NOTHING to do, which really sucks. In the first two installments she seemed to be a bit more apart of Harry and the Griffindor student's lives. There is one scene however that she gets a little chunk of dialogue, and she is sharing the scene with none other than Julie Christie herself (she is in only one 90 second scene). Anyway there is nothing to extensively report unfortunately. Great film, with barely any Maggie.

MAGGIE-METER:             1.5/5

 "Sirius Black was and remains today... Harry Potter's godfather."

Please Note: There is a 2 minute deleted scene of Maggie and the Gryffindor gang on the DVD, the scene is on YouTube if you haven't seen it. It was a decent scene of McGonnagal taking charge on her house with the Sirius Black hysteria and an apparent break-in.