GOF one movie?

[Tracie]

I totally agree with everyone on here who has said how awful the 
thought of GOF being one movie is.  I, for one, can not see how this 
can be done without seriously hacking the death out of the book.  
There are so many wonderful and exciting things happening in GOF. 

1. The Riddle House

2.The muggle post by Mrs Weasley with all the stamps on it. And 
Harry's letter to Sirius, plus all the bday owl posts.  And the post 
by Ron using "pig".

2. The Weasleys busting thru the Dursley's boarded up fireplace 
to "pick" Harry up for the Quidditch World Cup.  (This brought tears 
to my eyes I was laughing so hard)

3. The Burrow, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, Bill, Charlie..etc.

4.The World Cup itself (this will take at least 30 minutes as so 
many things happened there)

Okay...that's just the first HOUR....

5. Hogwarts express and the begin of term feast...DD describes the 
TWT.  The arrival of Mad Eye Moody.

6. DADA and the Unforgivables...this is really important because it 
brings to light some of Nevilles apprehensions

7. The arrival of the visiting students from the two other schools.

8. placing the names in the Goblet and the announcements, Harry's 
name being read.

9.  The wand weighing...important because we see Ollivander again, 
learn a little more about Harry's wand..which is very important at 
the end of this book when old voldy shows up again.

10.  The First Task

Okay...i'd say we are thru the 2nd hour.

so...we squeeze the second and third tasks...voldie's re-emergence, 
the confrontation and Cedric's death in the graveyard..the revealing 
of Barty Jr...DD's "glint"...Sirius being "revealed"...all in the 
last half hour???

they are MAD!!!  I don't know about anyone else...but if they do 
this..and hack it to bits...I'm not going to bother going to see 
it.  I love these books too much to see them butchered like this.  I 
said before in another post.  GOF and OotP are both twice as long as 
the first three books.  Squeezing PoA into a 2.5 hour movie is going 
to be bad enough...but GoF and OotP???  I can't see how it can be 
done without losing the story. I don't care how good a director you 
have...it just won't work.

Oh, and as far as the kids go...Harry, Hermoine, and Ron all "age" 
in the books..seems only natural that Dan, Emma and Rupert age right 
along with them...I wouldn't be able to see any other kids playing 
those roles.

all of them at Warner must be on drugs.  Or else they all slipped 
into insanity over night...

Tracie...who was appalled when she read about this...and needs 
coffee...badly!