Half-Blood Prince Date change - new picture (make that plural)

[Carol]

zanooda: 
> The article says there are only three flashbacks (Pensieve scenes) in
> the movie. It seems that in addition to the one we saw in the trailer
> there will be also two Slughorn's memories - one fake and one real,
> but nothing more. I still don't understand how they will introduce the
> locket without the Gaunts. Don't we (and Harry) need to see the locket
> (and the cup, for that matter) before HRH find it in DH? I thought
> Harry needs to know how it looks. The ring is not a problem - we'll
> see DD wearing it, so it's OK.
 
> zanooda, still hoping that they will shoot a scene with the Gaunts ...


Carol:
It's possible that they're counting the fake and real Slughorn
memories as a single scene, which leaves room for one more Pensieve
memory, but I don't think it will be of the Gaunts. Possibly it's of a
partially transformed Voldemort applying for a DADA position. The IMDb
lists *three* actors playing Voldemort, and none of them is Ralph
Fiennes: Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Tom Riddle--age 11; Frank Dillane,
Teenage Tom Riddle; and Michael Berendt--Tom Riddle at 18. 

I realize that that makes no sense at all: Tom Riddle at 18 *is*
teenage Tom Riddle, and it's silly to cast a different actor for a
two-year age difference. (I'm guessing there's an error somewhere, but
where, I don't know. Maybe 18 should be 28, or maybe Michael Berendt
isn't really in the film.) But *if* they've really cast three
different actors to play Tom Riddle, there must be three distinct
Pensieve memories, with the real and tampered-with Slughorn memories
counting as only one. (After all, WB might not want to give away that
particular plot point.) At any rate, there's four or five years'
difference between the ages of Dillane (born in 1989 and now either
eighteen or nineteen) and Berendt (born in December 1984 and now 23).
My guess is that Tom applies to teach at Hogwarts only once, when he's
already partially transformed, and curses the DADA some ten or twelve
years earlier than he does in the book. Another possibility--maybe
Berendt, who has trained in gymnastics, is Dillane's stunt double. But
what stunts would he need to do?

As for the Gaunts, I suspect that DD will tell Harry that Tom framed
his Muggle-hating uncle (not necessarily named) for the murder of his
(Tom's) Muggle father and took a ringg--this ring (camera zooms in to
show the ring DD is wearing)--from his uncle's hand. Later, we'll get
a scene showing DD (foolishly!!) putting on the cursed ring. With
luck, they'll show Snape, too, though I'm not counting on it.

Carol, who will see the film about a week after it opens just as she
would do if it had stayed on schedule