Attack on the Burrow

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "stephab67" <stephab67 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67@> wrote:
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> > But what exactly is the point of a DE raid on the Burrow in HBP
when Voldemort's focus is elsewhere? I don't like it and I can't be
persuaded to like it. 
> 
> Steph:
> Despite my joking about "reparo!" I haven't really decided how I
feel about putting in an attack on the Burrow.  I understand why
they're including it, although my first thought was that, except for
the attack on the Astronomy tower at the end, there's really not that
much action in HBP so they put it in to spice things up a bit as it
should come at about halfway through the film.  I just don't know
whether it's overkill in terms of bad stuff happening to the Weasleys
or whether it's even necessary.  I'm just going to hold off until I
see it to decide if it works.  

Carol:
Well. I think it's overkill, but you know that already. As for "not
that much action" (not counting Quidditch and snogging, the snape
scenes, especially the Unbreakable Vow, will be tense and exciting
even if the only "action" is three chains of fire binding his hands to
Narcissa's. Katie Bell gets to float in the air after being cursed by
the necklace and Ron is poisoned. The Sectumsempra scene is in (plenty
of action there, not to mention gore), as is the cave and the tower,
with the DEs fighting the Order members. I haven't heard anything
about the duel between Harry and snape (if Snape parrying Harry's
curses counts as a duel), but since Hagrid's cottage is being burned,
I think it must be. Granted, the action is mostly in the last quarter
of the film, but there's plenty of it!

There's also action of a more cheerful sort at Slughorn's Christmas
party (shades of the Yule Balle) and several Pensieve visits, not to
mention the burial of Aragog, which should have some good comic
moments if done right. Harry eavesdropping on Snape and Draco may not
be action, exactly, but it should be tense and exciting.

There's a *lot* of good stuff in HBP, and I think it should make a
fine film if they don't mess it up.

Carol earlier:
> > Actually, even though he [Percy] doesn't have any lines that I
recall, he's quite clearly "Fudge's man through and through" in the
OoP film. He's pretty easy to recognize given his age and hair color
in the scene in Dumbledore's office where DD refuses to "come quietly"
and exits in a flash of flame with Fawkes. So the breach with his
family has been shown or implied, just not talked about.
> 
> Steph:
> Good point.  Even though he was never identified as Percy and had no
> lines, I believe most people who either have read the books and/or
> have seen all the films knew who he was.  I really do hope they give
> him some lines at least in DH.  It would be great to see all the
> Weasleys fighting together.

Carol:
I agree. And I'm pretty sure that anyone who's seen the first three HP
films fairly recently will realize that Percy is Fudge's assistant.
They may be puzzled by his about-face, but I think they'll recognize
him. and a few lines of dialogue in HBP can bring us up to date on
him. (Hope he's in the elevator with Mr. Weasley and the polyjuiced
Trio in DH, but he probably won't be in HBP.)

> > Carol, who <snip> recommends the Bonham-Carter EW interview for
anyone who hasn't read it:
> > 
> > http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20044270_20044274_20046035,00.html
> > >
> Steph:
> I read that, it's good! BTW, Helen McCrory seems very excited about
playing Narcissa in the interviews I've read.

Carol:
There was a pretty good one at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/you/article.html?in_article_id=558889&in_page_id=1908

She may not look like Narcissa as I envisioned her, but at least she's
blonde in the film and she plans to be sexy. (Watch out, Severus!)

Carol, looking forward to the trailer and hoping that someone will see
it tomorrow and describe it to us!