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

[zanooda2]

zanooda:

I agree with you, Carol! It is my personal opinion, of course, by I 
believe that, ironically, the 6th year was the happiest of Harry's 
years at Hogwarts (except for its horrible end, of course :-)) - the 
most normal year, at least. And certainly no one tried to kill him 
that year! But I won't be surprised if the director is of a different 
opinion - we'll just have to wait and see :-)! 

I also find the Alecto actress too attractive - somehow I imagine 
Alecto as an ugly hag, even uglier than Umbridge, but, to be honest, 
she is not described in the books as ugly, only as stocky and hunched 
or something like that. So it'll be OK, I guess :-).



--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> 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)
>