[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies

Thu Aug 28 01:24:14 UTC 2008

Merope Riddle is Tom (Voldemort-to-be) Riddle's mother.  She's largely 
introduced in HBP.  She gives birth to Tom at the orphanage and dies shortly 
after the birth, but with enough time to say "I hope he looks like his 
papa." (HBP, 249)  She names him "Tom, for his father, and Marvolo, for her 
father-yes, I know funny name, isn't it?  We wondered whether she came from 
a circus-and she said the boy's surname was to be Riddle.  And she died soon 
after that without another word."  (HBP, 249)  I don't picture any actress I 
know playing Merope though... I just picture her having long dark hair, at 
least to tell you how I visualize her.

Charlotte, quoting a book for the very first time in a post here

>From: "Mrs. Lex Luthor" <lexluthorslady at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies
>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:37:17 -0700 (PDT)
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>I can't seem to remember the Merope character can any one refresh me? :)
>
>Love,
>Red
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>--- On Thu, 8/28/08, Charlotte Roberts <charober at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>From: Charlotte Roberts <charober at sympatico.ca>
>Subject: Re: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies
>To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
>Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 12:29 AM
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>Interesting you would mention Kate Winslet there, Red.  When I was thinking
>of the upcoming HBP and possible actors for newly introduced characters, 
>one
>of my possible choices was having Kate Winslet as Merope Riddle.  I also
>thought of Josie Lawrence as another possibility.  That's all in terms of
>British actresses I can name who I could possibly picture as Merope.  
>Anyone
>else have any idea?  It seems Merope may not appear in the movie, but it's
>still fun to think about.
>
>Charlotte
>
>
> >From: "Mrs. Lex Luthor" <lexluthorslady at yahoo.com>
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> >To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: Re: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies
> >Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:24:32 -0700 (PDT)
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> >Ironically enough when I picture Remus Lupin I actually picture Ralph
> >Fiennes aka He who must not be named.
> >
> >There was a bunch of us that wanted Ralph as Remus Lupin (Though I like
> >David) It will always be Ralph in my mind. Just like I always picture 
>Kate
> >Winslet as Tonks.
> >
> >Love,
> >Red
> >
> >--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >From: Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com>
> >Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies
> >To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
> >Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 4:30 AM
> >
> >Carol earlier:
> > >
> > > > but he never looked like Lupin to me.
> > >
> >zanooda responded:
> > >
> > > Not thin enough :-)?
> >
> >Carol again:
> >
> >Not really. I think it was more the stupid mustache and the Muggle
> >clothes. I hated the electric train, too. Or maybe it's a magical
> >train that looks like a 1940s electric train (after all, the WW does
> >have the Hogwarts Express), but it just doesn't suit the character.
> >Give the guy Grindylows in a tank, please! Anyway, I pictured him as
> >pleasant-looking but not handsome, with greying brown hair and a face
> >that was somehow simultaneously young-looking and prematurely lined.
> >None of that came through for me with David Thewlis.
> >
> >zanooda:
> >I have a whole personal problem with movie!Lupin. I saw this actor for
> >the first time in a movie called "Dragonheart" (or similar,
>I'm
> >not
> >sure :-)), and he played a really disgusting character there!
> > >
> > > Now every time I see the actor (Thewliss - sp?), I associate him
> >with this character (which is really strange, actually), and I have
> >nothing but very bad feelings towards him. He even seems very
> >unpleasant-looking to me, although all my family assures me that I'm
> >just crazy and he looks fine. <snip>
> >
> >Carol again:
> >I'm sure he looks fine to anyone who's never read the books and
>formed
> >a different mental picture of him. But regarding the mental picture of
> >him in "Dragonheart," try watching him in "Black
>Beauty,"
> >admittedly a
> >kids' film, but who are we to talk about that? <grin> He plays a
>very
> >gentle man who's good with horses, in contrast to some of the brutal
> >owners of Black Beauty and the mare whose name I forget. If you're
> >disturbed by cruelty to animals, you might not like the film, but it's
> >quite watchable otherwise, and it's fun to see the humans from a
> >horse's point ov view.
> >
> >Carol, who likes David Thewlis better because of that film but still
> >doesn't think he looks like Lupin
> >
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