[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Setup for OOTP

[Richard]

At 14:15 30/11/2005 , Sherry Gomes wrote:

>Not to mention in the scene after the dementor attack, we learn that Petunia
>knows a lot more about the WW than she has let on even to her husband.  and
>we learn that someone has been in touch with her before.  If it's true that
>there is more to this story line to come in book seven, it would seem
>important to keep the dementors and the aftermath in the movie.

As I've said before, the movies aren't too concerned with setting up future 
plotlines unless absolutely necessary to the immediate plot. Petunia's 
reaction isn't vitally important *at this stage* and if it has a payoff in 
Book Seven, movie seven is where it'll be have to be introduced anyway, as 
that's where it'll be resolved.

In any case, it's hardly the most pressing reason to keep the Dementor 
attack in Movie!OotP, and even if my projected summary of a potential first 
scene didn't mention it, the Dursleys would be involved (Vernon and Petunia 
are probably more memorable to the audience than Dudley, especially as they 
didn't appear in GoF and Dudley will have changed over the last two years 
within the story, not to mention Harry Melling will have changed even more 
over the last three years in the real world).

I wouldn't bother with the flurry of owls, apart from certainly one to 
Harry to inform him of the hearing, and *perhaps* one to Petunia from 
Dumbledore, to set up the Harry-Dumbledore distancing: during a 12GP scene 
with Ron & Hermione, Harry could ask rhetorically: "why did he send a 
message to HER and not ME?"

--
Richard, still waiting for his owl