A horrible thought

[irene_mikhlin <irene_mikhlin@yahoo.com>]

By the looks of things there is no Professor Trelawney in the movie.
Which should not be a problem, after all they must cut something. And
it's much better to do a clean amputation of the whole plotline than
trying to give a sample of everything. But how this time will be
spent? Something tells me it's not going to be character development
culminating in 40 minutes long Shrieking Shack + confrontation. No,
it'll be Knight Bus sequence rescuing wizards in trouble all over
London and other action special effects. :-(
And if you think it was the horrible thought, I haven't started yet.
Us Snape fans were sustained through the 2 films that cut every
Potions lesson by the thought of PoA and all that comes with it. But
now I think that it's not even obvious that Snape is going to be in
the Shrieking Shack. It can be done without him: Lupin comes, they
talk, confront Pettigrew, go happily to the castle until Lupin
transforms. That's dramatic enough. And the confrontation in the
hospital wing can be with Fudge alone. They didn't bother to establish
the life-debt to James in PS, or the fact that they were classmates,
so it's not impossible.
That's my horrible thought for the day.

Irene