Rupert Grint

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "sartoris22" <sartoris22 at ...> wrote:

> When I used the word "diminished" in regards to Rupert's role 
> in POA, I was thinking about quality raher than quantity. 
> Hermione is very positively portrayed in POA, primarily, 
> I believe, because Emma wrote seventeen pages about her 
> character, which Ron is more negatively portrayed because 
> Rupert didn't write anything.


zanooda:

I mostly agree with your post, but I don't think that Rupert's role
was diminished as a punishment for not writing some essay :-). It was
just a part of the general trend in the movies, the trend to make Ron
look more like some kind of clown than an integral part of the trio.
This happened in all the movies, not just PoA, except for the first
movie and maybe the fifth. 

Remember a scene in Hagrid's hut, from CoS, when Ron explains to Harry
and Hermione what "mudblood" means, and says how disgusting it is to
call somebody "a dirty blood", and says that if wizards didn't marry
Muggles they would have died out? It's a great speech that shows Ron's
knowledge of the WW, and his convictions, and even certain maturity.
And guess what? In the movie (not Cuaron's, Columbus's :-)) part of
those lines went to Hermione, and part of them went to Hagrid, and Ron
was just sitting there burping out slugs.
And in GoF movie what was the deal with Ron knowing about the dragons
and not telling Harry? What was that added for? To make him look worse
than in the book?


> sartoris wrote: 

> For example, in the Shrieking Shack scene, Hermione speaks lines 
> that Ron actually says in the book; moreover, Ron appears afraid 
> in that scene, whereas in the book, he brandishes his wand and 
> says, essentially, that Sirius will kill Harry only over his 
> (Ron's) dead body, even though he, Ron, has a broken leg


zanooda:

Ron (Hermione in the movie :-)) said: "If you want to kill Harry,
you'll have to kill us too". And yes, he said it, being barely able to
stand because of his broken leg. It was really unfair to take this
line away from Ron, IMO.