No Oliver Wood in PoA?

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rdas at f...> 
> 
> Here's another thought to all of you who are not that fried over no 
> Sean Biggerstaff (and possibly no Wood atall which could possibly 
> mean very little quidditch...): Quidditch and the Quidditch Cup 
were 
> the reasons Harry was so desparate to learn how to conjure a 
> Patronus. If these things become peripheral (which is what it's 
> looking like even putting the most positive spin on recent 
events...) 
> then TPTB have decided they can manage plot better than JKR. The 
> brilliance (if I may be so bold as to call it that) of JKR's story 
is 
> that no matter how important plot is, she never lets that keep her 
> from creating wonderful characters like a manic Wood, absolutely 
> single-minded in his pursuit of the Cup. It's all a balance. Throw 
> away a wonderful character (Peeves was funny but not wonderful like 
> Wood) and something intangible will be lost. Of course there will 
be 
> a movie without Wood. Who can argue with that? But why was losing 
Wood
> necessary? That's a very good question no one seems to be able to 
> answer.
> JenD

I thinks this is a time for some consumer feedback to Warner Bros.  
You may think it heresy, but after my disappointment at the way they 
eviscerated CoS in the movie, mking Ron a clown, etc., I am not all 
that fired up about PoA: the Movie.  Oliver Wood and the Quidditch 
matches are integral to the story, no matter what Senor Director may 
think.  I could easily content myself with rereading the books or 
reading fanfics or beta reading and composing filks (which I do now)

Haggridd