Campaign to keep Sean Biggerstaff?

[Calliope]

 "vincentjh" wrote:

>>Maybe I'm dumb. But I got a little confused here. 

No Oliver Wood = No Quidditch? How does this equation work? The only 
thing we know for sure at this point is that Wood would not be in 
PoA. How people came to the conclusion that they'd toss the game 
aside really puzzled me.

Me:

Quidditch is a big part of this book, and how do you show Quidditch without
having a TEAM?  Even if they get rid of all Wood's lines, he should at LEAST be
in the BACKGROUND, along with Alicia/Katie/Angelina and Fred/George.  Are they
just going to have Harry and Malfoy flying around bickering at each other? 
That's not Quidditch.  

Oliver is one of the students we've gotten to know and expect to see in the
periphery of the movie, like Seamus, Neville, Dean, Crabbe, Goyle, Colin, Percy,
Lee, Angelina, Fred, and George.  (Fred and George are a little more important,
since they have the Map.)  Heck I've even gotten used to expecting Susan Bones
to be at Hermione's elbow in every class. We don't see much of Percy in the
movies, but we know he's there.  We don't see much of Angelina, matter of fact
she never has a line, but we know who she is because Lee Jordan talks about her
in the game (not that LJ's name is mentioned in the movie either) and she's
constantly scoring goals.  

What if TPTB decided to ax Crabbe and Goyle, since we don't need them for the
Polyjuice plot anymore?  Would it directly affect the movie?  Probably not. 
Would I be disappointed?  Heck yes!  What is Draco without his two faithful
henchmen (henchboys)?  We never see them getting any real parts (I don't count
the Polyjuice incident, since they were really Harry/Ron), they just follow
Draco around, but we EXPECT them to be there.  Just like until Goblet of Fire, I
expect to see Oliver Wood at least flying around on the pitch.

I wonder if Angelina/Alicia/Katie have been cut out totally as well.  It would
be interesting to see a three-man Gryffindor Quidditch team.

Calliope

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