What trio? /was HP Flubs - Grawp

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Karen" <kchuplis at ...> wrote:
>
> I have a feeling that Grawp is going to be extremely significant in
Book 7.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "can can" <jeffschick16 at ...>
> ...
> 
> > > This is exactly how I feel about the movies.
> > > I've given up expecting much, especially in the way of
> > > character exploration and understand ...
> > > Susanne

> > Candace:
> >
> > That's what bothers me about Order. David Heyman already 
> > said they filmed the Grawp scenes.  Why?  ...
> >   Candace
> >

bboyminn:

A lot of people were disappointed with Grawp's apperance in the books.
The common question is 'what purpose does he serve?'

JKR needs something to happen, she needs the Thestral to come and
rescue Harry and the gang and take them to the Ministry, but how?
Simply Thestrals are attracked to blood. Now we have to come up with
some blood. OK, let's introduce Hagrid's brother, have him stubble
onto the Centaur scene, have the Centaurs attack him, and have him
bleed on Harry and Hermione. Problem solved. 

Yes, Grawp may have some larger role (forgive the pun) in later books,
but his role in OotP was to bleed and nothing more. 

Making things happen in a story is not alway easy. I was writing a HP
fiction and needed one character to make one comment, and I had to
write 10,000 words of plot twist and turn to manuver my character into
a position where he was able to make his comment. Sometime huge
expanses of story are really nothing more than the author manuvering
his/her characters into a specific situation. How they got there
should certainly be interesting, but is not as important as them
actually being where they eventually need to be.

I think that's what Grawp was in OotP, simply a process for manuvering
Harry and Hermione into a position where they were able to do what
they need to do. If there ever was a clear and conciser definition of
'plot device' than Grawp, I don't know what it could be.

I suspect, besides a cool special effect, in the up coming movie,
that's all Grawp will be again; a means for Harry and Hermione to get
from where they are at to where they need to be.

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn