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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Sure it is. It adds to Neville's character depth showing that Neville is a better herbologist than he was portrayed in the book and not to Dobby's. Dobby is an established character. He could have easily just shown up and passed on the information in a small cameo to both movies and be done with it. It need not be a long drawn out process to establish anything more than just someone passing him information. Since the character is CGI I'd go with that the director/producers removed him due to cost.
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Actually, we don't have a higher opinion of Neville by the end because Barty Crouch Jr. admits that he told Neville about it in furtherance of his plan to get Harry to get the goblet. The bottom line is that in movie adaptations, something has to give, and Rita and the house elves (unless they come back with a vengeance in book 7, which is entirely possible) have not been the kinds of things that have needed to be kept around. I think that's a good thing; you clearly don't. Again, it's a matter of how to cut costs or length or what have you which is always going to be a judgment call. There's no need to impugn my taste with sweeping generalizations about what I do and don't like in movies.
On a side note, Creecher's role is something that ought to have been kept in, since the conclusion made little sense without it. This movie was rushed and kept the plot moving without giving us a lot of reasons for why the plot moved. Rita and Creecher would've been much better uses of time than the 500 Filch posting scenes.