DH Movie Speculation

[Carol]

zanooda wrote:
>
> <snip> Percy, Charlie, Bill and Fleur will be out (I don't know why
they brought Percy back in OotP in the first place). 
> 
> Unlike you, I think there will be no wedding and no Shell Cottage. 
> They can have Harry's birthday instead of the wedding, and the Trio 
> can apparate from Malfoy Manor to the Burrow instead of Shell Cottage.
> 
> Changed scenes - there will be not seven Potters, but five Potters - 
> without Fleur and Mundungus.
>
Carol responds:


I've already commented on Scrimgeour and the wedding, but I forgot to
mention Percy. He's not essential, but since they brought him into
OoP, I think there may just be a reconciliation scene just before
Fred's death, making it all the more poignant, as it is in the book.
Expendable, but I think it will have an impact on the film audience,
which has learned to appreciate the Weasley Twins.

I can see omitting Fleur (but for reasons I've already specified, I
don't think they will--too much happens at the wedding to set up the
Hallows plot), but how can they leave out Mundungus? Snape must have a
"source" for the information that he gives LV (and Portrait!DD), and
if Dung doesn't Disapparate when LV flies at him, there's no reason
for Moody to die, which means that Umbridge won't have Moody's eye in
her office. (Expendable, I know, but if I were the writer or director,
I'd keep it in.) And Confundungus is one of the scenes that helps to
exonerate Snape. Without Mundungus, we won't get that delightful scene
with Kreacher banging Mundungus with a saucepan, and the Trio won't
have a source for the information that Umbridge has the locket.

Carol, voting to retain Mundungus