OOTP

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Richard <hp at p...> wrote:
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> At 21:18 30/11/2005 , Jen replied:
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> >Richard,
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Thank you for such a detailed list of predictions concerning OOTP. 
It was a tour de force and I will remember the number for future 
reference. It left me with a few thoughts I want to run past fellow 
list members. I am starting to get the hang of adapting something as 
massive as HP and it hit me (in the way that directors can highlight 
something by using negative space) that what we get with the films 
may be a mixture of things (nods to action/adventure, creative bits, 
etc.) but buried at the heart of it all is what Jo considers vital 
to her story. She won't tell the writers where to go, but she won't 
let them violate the story either. She is so irritating that way! 
But what we have to do now it seems is look at the films and see 
what's there and what's not. You mentioned in your earlier post that 
there'd likely be no need for Kreacher or Dobby in OOTP and I 
wondered why until I dabbled in logic (not a big skill in the 
wizarding or muggle world). Dobby/Winky were completely absent from 
GOF. What else is missing, now I am thinking, what other clues can 
we gather from what is there. The obvious come to mind immediately:

Harry must still have his showdown. He keeps getting some kind of 
practice in each film.
DD faltered, he's not all-knowing and all-seeing, not the saviour of 
the wizarding world (although it seems he faltered a film too 
early...) 
Snape's loyalties are muddled. Although he didn't get the screen 
time I'd like to have seen, there were definite points where his 
loyalties were questioned (Sirius in the fire:You never stop being a 
death eater, the pensieve scene, Karkarov showing his dark mark to 
Snape in the closet)

There are lots more interesting clues, I am sure, but I can't 
continue just now. Anyone, please feel free to add to it. 
JenD