Another casting for HBP

[Carol]

Missy Gallant wrote:
>
> I have a horrible feeling that there will be an attack on the burrow
in THIS film so that there won't be one in the NEXT film.  Think about
it, in order to have the attack be at the wedding, there needs to be a
wedding.  Can't have a wedding because that would mean introducing the
entire Weasley family into the films
> (Heaven forbid THAT should happen- sarcasm here). 
> I've pretty much given up meeting the Weasley or ever
> even hearing about the friction between Percy and the
> rest.  We had all wondered about it.  And some decided
> that the attack would probably just happen at Harry's
> party instead.  Now I'm wondering if they won't just
> skip over all of it.  Maybe a three second scene at
> the Weasley's where Scrimgeour says, here's what DD
> left you kids- Bye- they look at each other, say, it's
> time and flee to Number 12.

Carol responds:
Oh, dear. I really, really, really hope that your horrible feeling is
wrong! That would mean no need to Disapparate to that Muggle Street
whose name I can't remember, no attack by Dolohov and thorfinn Rowle,
and no foreshadowing of the jinx on the name Voldemort, which is
important--make that essential--to the capture by the Snatchers and
Fenrir Greyback that takes HRH to Malfoy Manor. They can't just
decide, oh, it's time to go to Harry's house!

However, they could just as easily attack the Burrow with just HRH and
the usual family members and a few Order members present, maybe at
Harry's birthday party, as at the wedding, but then we wouldn't get to
see Krum or Elphias Doge or Auntie Muriel or, most important,
Xenophilius Lovegood. The wedding is important in foreshadowing the
Dumbledore/Grindelwald connection and the Deathly Hallows, if nothing
else, not to mention the opportunity for a dramatic scene involving a
lot of chaos and vividly illustrating the danger that Harry and the
whole WW are facing.

If DH were a single film, I'd expect them to eliminate the wedding.
But it's two films. It's got to be there. And our wonderful new added
HBP scene (blecch!) will provide an opportunity to mention Bill and
Fleur and the upcoming wedding. (I know that Ron has mentioned his
brother Charlie in one of the films, SS/PS, I think, and the whole
family was shown in the Egypt photo in PoA. I see no reason not to
mention Bill, Charlie, and Fleur (whom filmgoers met in GoF) in HBP.
The filmmakers are bringing in Regulus Black and young Lucius Malfoy,
after all, and that's not even canonical (unless we count Slughorn's
brief reference to Reggie in "Horace Slughorn")!

In any case, I'm guessing that we won't see Scrimgeour in the HBP film
at all. They'll simplify the plot by making it Fudge who reads them
the will and distributes the bequests. (It can't be a three-second
scene--all of those items, including the Sword of Gryffindor, which is
mentioned but not handed over to them, are essential to the plot. (How
else is Ron supposed to get back to his friends after he leaves, for
example?) And if Kingsley's Patronus announces that the Ministry has
fallen, it will say that Fudge, not Scrimgeour, is dead. Just my
guess, but some plot elements have to go, and that one will simplify
the story.

Carol, crossing her fingers that this added scene won't ruin either
film, and especially not both!