Another casting for HBP

[Carol]

zanooda:
> 
> Yeah, I remember this interview. I thought it was a little confusing
that he mentioned the Burrow and Muggles together - to me they kind 
of don't mix up. To demonstrate the danger to the Muggle world they
should show that bridge collapsing or a train derailing, or something
of the sort. I remember when I read this interview I thought that 
maybe the DEs attack the village next to the Burrow or something like
that :-).
> 
Carol earlier: 
> > Carol, considering the HBP attack on the Burrow firmly in the
rumor category until she sees evidence to the contrary with her own eyes
> 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> I don't know, Carol. I reread what this Tonks actress said and she 
> seems pretty sure that the Burrow is attacked:
> 
> "According to the report, Natalia Tena says her character Tonks "was
only on set for the part where Death Eaters attack the Burrow at 
Christmas (where Harry & Weasleys are present). She said that none of
the angst of her character is there – indeed, she and Lupin are just
suddenly a couple when they meet there."
> 
> The actress goes on to give a few thoughts as well about "Harry 
Potter and the Deathly Hallows," and what happens to Tonks during the
 book, with Tena noting in the film version, she " would love to have
to ride a broom with a pregnant belly."
 
> Here is the link, although they don't work for me lately :-):
> 
> http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2008/5/5/natalia-tena-talks-tonks-
in-half-blood-prince

Carol:
I read Natalia Tena's (paraphrased) comment, too, and I think it's the
source of this "attack on the Burrow" rumor that surfaced again in the
synopsis of the as-yet-unseen-by-anyone-else teaser trailer. (And she
thinks that a two-weeks' pregnant Tonks in "the Seven Potters" chase
scene would have a noticeably pregnant belly?) 

It makes no sense either to have an uncanonical attack on the Burrow
to show the danger to the Muggles or the WW in general (how does a
train derailing fit with an attack on the Burrow?; it would ruin the
similar scene in DH; it would make sending Ginny and Ron to school
when their home and parents are in danger ridiculous and make them
worry about their parents all year long or appear heartless; and so on.

If I may be allowed to take out my frustration with this idea for a
moment, it's just stupid! Stupid, pointless, unnecessary, uncanonical,
and setting DH up to be anticlimactic. I can't believe that JKR would
approve an attack on the Burrow a year early. There must be some other
interpretation.

Remember all those repeated news stories stating that two people would
die in DH? They were misinterpreting JKR's words regarding two
*unplanned* deaths. I knew there would be more than two deaths; two
was a ridiculously small number, even if it referred only to
relatively major characters.

I have the same sense here. It can't be right, and I don't see how the
movie could focus as much on "snogging" and Quidditch as it's depicted
as being, or be the funniest film in the series (up till the Snape as
eavesdropper revelation, that is) if there's an attack on the Burrow
mid-movie.

IMO, for drama, we need Snape's Unbreakable Vow, Sectumsempra, the
cave, the tower, and the duel with Snape. Scenes of bridges collapsing
on the evening news--oops, no TVs, but they could show it as Lupin
talks about it--and so forth are fine. But an attack on the Burrow
just does not fit the plot requirements and takes away from the focus
on LV's real goals for HBP.

*Maybe* it's really in the movie, but, if so, I think they're making a
stupid mistake (and not the first, but it's less excusable now that
all the books are out). And *maybe* it's just a rumor, just a mistake.
I don't trust comments by actors and actresses (see my comments on Dan
Radcliffe's characterization of HBP!Harry), and I repeat, I won't
believe until I see it that the filmmakers could make such a
significant blunder in the HBP film. (I do, however, understand why
they cut "The Other Minister" and wanted to convey that information in
some other way. Too bad--it was the only time that I really liked
Cornelius Fudge.)

Carol, thinking that Christmas at the Burrow was sufficiently "frosty"
as depicted in the book and unable to imagine it being ruined
altogether without the film being ruined as well