Dan Radcliffe's comment and the casting of Alecto C.

[Carol]

Dan Radcliffe comments in a new, very short interview: "Harry is
unhappy for a lot of this film [HBP], mainly because people keep
trying to kill him. And his love life is awful, too."  

Huh? I thought that he was obsessed with Draco Malfoy, suspecting him
of being behind the necklace and poison that nearly kill *other*
people, and his "love life" consists of occasionally seeing Ginny
kissing Dean and feeling a bit of jealousy. (It's *Hermione* whose
love life is "awful," with Ron constantly snogging Lav-Lav. Maybe
Film!Harry is jealous of *Ron*, at least when he's not being attacked
by conjured birds?) And I don't see why he'd be constantly unhappy
given the lessons with Dumbledore and his suddenly spectacular Potions
performance thanks to a certain Half-Blood Prince. and they're keeping
the Quidditch, too--Harry is unhappy because of McLaggen, especially
when McLaggen puts him in the hospital wing and loses the game, and
again when Snape puts him in detention and he misses the final match,
but that doesn't count as being unhappy for the whole film. Sure,
Sectumsempra upsets him momentarily and he has to hide his Potions
book and he learns that Snape is the eavesdropper, after which
everything goes rapidly downhill (the cave, the tower, the duel with
Snape, the funeral), but he shouldn't be unhappy for the whole film,
only the last half hour or so.

All in all, a very odd description of this film, IMO. And yet the
scenes they've done so far or are planning, from Slughorn's party and
Spinner's End to the cave and now the tower, complete with Fenrir
Greyback and Alecto Carrow (Suzanne Toase, who looks much too cute and
likeable for the part) seem very much by the book to me.

Both articles can be found at http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/

I wonder if they've rewritten the near-deaths so that Harry thinks the
necklace and poisoned mead were intended for him? (Exactly the sort of
thing he'd buy himself, so of course he'd think that. ;-)! )

Anyway, if they're filming Alecto Carrow's part, obviously they're
doing Dumbledore's death scene. (I really, really hope they've made
Michael Gambon read "the Prince's Tale" so that he gets the
interaction with Snape right!)

Carol, finding it impossible to reconcile Dan's comment with either
the book or what she's already learned about the HBP film (it sounds
more like OoP)