[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Another casting for HBP

[Missy Gallant]

My question is- what important scene is going to be
deleted at the cost of this not-really-needed scene?


--- Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> >
> > Steve wrote:
> > > There isn't even any place in HBP that an attack
> on
> > > the Burrow would begin to make sense.  The only
> attack
> > > in HBP is the end, and frankly, it should stay
> that
> > > way.  
> > > 
> stephab67 wrote:
> > The attack on the Burrow is indeed in. It was
> added with JKR's 
> blessing to show that there's some bad stuff
> happening in the 
> wizarding world as a result of Voldie's return.  The
> HBP book only 
> talks about that stuff so they decided they needed
> to show it somehow.
> It takes place during Christmas when Harry is there.
>  Hermione, true 
> to canon, won't be at the Burrow during Christmas as
> she's still
> fighting with Ron, so she's not in the scene.
> >
> Carol responds:
> 
> I know that there's added footage that takes place
> at the Burrow and
> that its purpose is to show that the war is
> beginning and even the
> Muggles are affected, but the so-called attack on
> the Burrow is only a
> rumor as I understand it, mentioned in the
> unofficial description of
> the as-yet unaired teaser trailer. It's quite
> possible that whoever
> wrote that description misinterpreted what they saw.
> 
>
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2008/5/4/rumor-alert-new-description-of-hbp-teaser-trailer/comments/2
> 
> I can't see JKR approving a scene that would make
> the canonical attack
> on the Burrow in DH anticlimatic, and there are
> other ways, such as
> Daily Prophet articles and wizard wireless
> newscasts, to make the
> state of the WW clear. 
> 
> I finally located the older article referring to
> this scene, which
> states in part:
> 
> ""We don't often have things that aren't in the
> book," producer David
> Barron told The Back Room." But this was brought in
> because Jo
> [Rowling] was able throughout the quite lengthy book
> to keep dropping
> little snippets of what was happening in the outside
> world-there'd be
> people reading newspapers and talking about how
> somebody's parents had
> been killed or somebody had been withdrawn from
> school because their
> parents didn't think it was safe. And we're made
> aware that the Muggle
> world is also experiencing these disasters, but
> thinks they are
> disasters rather than the work of Voldemort. The
> book is peppered with
> those moments, but we couldn't do that quite so
> easily in the film. So
> [the extra scene] comes in the middle of the film
> and it just reminds
> us the world is no longer a safe place. Even in what
> would normally be
> considered the safe haven of the Burrow, nobody's
> safe. I think you'll
> like it. It's quite effective.""
> 
> I suppose those words from producer David Barron
> could be interpreted
> to mean that the Burrow is attacked, but it could
> just as easily mean
> that all the hands on Mrs. Weasley's clock are
> pointing to Mortal
> Peril. And it sounds to me as if the scene is
> intended to take the
> place of "The Other Minister" and the various Daily
> Prophet articles
> that appear throughout HBP.
> 
> At any rate, I'll only "like" the scene if it
> doesn't involve an
> attack on the Burrow itself, which would make the
> canonical Burrow
> attack in DH anticlimactic. (Besides, Voldmort's
> focus in HBP is on
> Draco and Dumbledore, with Snape waiting in the
> wings--only not for
> the reasons LV thinks he is. There's nor *reason* to
> attack the Burrow
> when LV isn't yet ready to "destroy" Harry! And how
> can Harry go to
> the Burrow as a safe house in DH if HBP has shown it
> to be unsafe?)
> 
> Carol, considering the HBP attack on the Burrow
> firmly in the rumor
> category until she sees evidence to the contrary
> with her own eyes
> 
> 


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