Dan Radcliffe's comment ... And 'My Boy Jack'

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
> >
> > 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. ...
> > 
> > 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)
 
bboyminn responded:
> 
> As I often say, in real life, people don't speak in absolute truths.
I think you can't reconcile this because Dan wasn't making a complete
absolute all-inclusive statement of fact. He was viewing the movie
from a certain aspect and in a certain context, and felt his comments
fit the context of his momentary view point.
> 
> If you'll shift your own view point, you will see that his
statements can be made to fit certain aspects of the story.
> 
> Harry life isn't constantly threatened in the movie, but on the
other hand, Harry's life is always under constant threat. It's all in
how you look at it.

>

Carol:
Nevertheless, it's not a very accurate summation and, as you say, has
to be *made* to fit. Harry in HBP is Slughorn's "little Potions
Prince" (to quote Hermione), and as zanooda says, in many ways, this
is his most normal year (until the cave chapter, that is, and even
then, it's DD who's in most danger, Inferi or no Inferi, as he has
been all year). Harry is Quidditch captain, having to deal with
McLaggen, and he's needlessly tormenting himself by thinking that Ron
won't approve of his dating Ginny (Ron has been hinting that they
should get together for several books). He also has to put up with
Lav-Lav and Won-Won, along with Hermione's and Ron's, shall we say,
misunderstanding; he's obsessed with finding out what Draco is up to
(and thinks that Snape is helping Draco do something dangerous). He's
happily learning new spells from the HBP and exploring Pensieve
memories with Dumbledore. Granted, he believes (rightly, IMO) that
Draco is a Death Eater, and he's correct that Draco is up to
something, but he's also supposed to be getting Slughorn's memory for
DD, a challenge to his inventiveness and cunning, not to his safety.
Neither he nor DD takes Trelawney's dire predictions seriously (or,
more likely, DD has accepted the inevitability of his own death,
preferably at Snape's hand, but doesn't want Harry to know that).
Katie, Ron, and Draco have close calls, but no one is trying to kill
*Harry*, at least not until he encounters the Inferi in the cave.
True, near the end, Fenrir Greyback tries to kill Harry and a DE
(Amycus Carrow?) Crucios him, stopped by Snape, but for most of the
film, Harry is in less than usual danger because Voldemort's focus
has, for the moment, shifted to Draco and Dumbledore (he expects Draco
to fail and Snape to kill DD).

Carol, hoping that this film is as much like the book as possible ad
that no crucial scenes are cut or significantly altered