[HPFGU-Movie] Ron's lines

[patientx3 at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/4/2004 11:35:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
CMeehan1 at aol.com writes:

>>I've read where Steve Kloves said Hermione was his favorite character so 
maybe this is why he gives her some of Ron's lines.  My problem with this 
though 
is that I think the films may be diminishing Ron's character...  <<

I think he might do that because a lot of the times Hermione has very little 
to say. Someone on the Leaky boards posted a link to the Chamber of Secrets 
script (which was rather horryfying to read because it had a lot more continuity 
than the movie, like  foreshadowing about Ginny's "problem", and it actually 
had the MoM issuing Harry a warning for the whole Dobby using magic thing), 
and its odd how if you follow the book Ron has A LOT more to say and do than 
Hermione does. I think the line swapping for the most part is just to balence her 
out. Most of the time it doesn't really matter, its just when they give her 
*Dumbledore's* lines or when they take away *important* lines from Ron. 
As far as the Shrieking Shack scenes goes, I'm hoping that they are just 
"splitting" the line (for those who haven't seen the French trailer, in it 
Hermione says Ron's "you'll have to kill all three of us" line). Because in the book 
Ron says it twice; it could be that he says it the first time, and then 
Hermione repeats it because he can barely talk because of his leg. That wouldn't 
bother me, as long as Ron says it *first*, that's one of his best moments in the 
books, I would hate to see it turned into a "Hermione moment".


-Rebecca


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