DH Movie Speculation

[Carol]

> > Carol, voting to retain Mundungus
> 
zanooda:
> OK, I'll give you Mundungus :-), but not Bill and Fleur. Everything 
> that happened at the wedding could have easily happened at Harry's 
> birthday party. Muriel (if she is in the movie at all) is a Weasley 
> relative, she could be at the Burrow. Harry could invite Luna, and 
> she could come with Xenophilius. Krum is not necessary, Hermione can 
> recognize the symbol herself - she is supposed to know everything.
Or she could say "I know it's Grindelwald's sign - Viktor told me
about it". 
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Carol:

But having Hermione recognize Grindelwald's sign takes away not only
Xenophilius Lovegood (a choice role for any British character actor
who hasn't been in the films yet) but the book that Dumbledore wills
to Hermione and the Tale of the Three Brothers, which, admittedly,
will be hard to fit into the film. (It will almost surely have to be
paraphrased, not read.) I don't see how they can do without the
Deluminator, much less the Snitch that opens at the close, and if
Harry and Ron have bequests from Dumbledore, so will Hermione.

I think that the wedding will be greatly curtailed, like the QWC in
GoF, but some of the incidents surrounding it are important to the
Hallows plot.

Does anyone think that they'll cut the whole Dumbledore backstory,
including Grindelwald and Ariana? I don't see how they can cut
Aberforth, though, since he's connected to the mirror and Dobby
subplots and provides the means for HRH to get into the RoR.

I just realized that DH may be harder to adapt to a film than the
other books not just because of the long passages of exposition about
DD but because the plot is so episodic. It does, of course, include
great cinematic moments (fights and Patronuses and the locket Horcrux
and Harry's excursions into Voldemort's mind), but most if not all the
articles and biographical excerpts will have to be eliminated, and I
think the use of Polyjuice Potion will be limited to the Seven Potters
and Hermione!Bellatrix (no "Barny Weasley") and Ron's Splinching will
be omitted. Lupin/Tonks will have to go, too (though we'll see those
characters in the Seven Potters segment). 

Carol, who hopes that the Deathly Hallows subplot will be simplified
and clarified but not at the expense of Xeno Lovegood