Characters acting OOC/Was:Rupert Grint

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> And I couldn't be happier that she was underage and had to stay home.
> Her presence would distract Harry, she and Ron (or she and Hermione)
> would always be bickering, and the dynamics of the Trio would be
> wholly spoiled. (One of Ron's concerns when the locket is tormenting
> him is the safety of his family. Having Ginny with him would ruin
> that; instead of not knowing what was going on and fearing the worst,
> he'd constantly feel the responsibility of protecting her and she'd be
> constantly arguing that she was old enough to do whatever they were
> doing. Three's company; four's a crowd.

Steph:
I agree.  It's always been the Trio, no matter what Ginny came to mean to Harry by the end 
of HBP.  Notice that Harry asked DD if he could tell Ron and Hermione about the 
Horcruxes.  He never considered bringing Ginny into his confidence about them.   It would 
have ruined the dynamic for me, as well, if JKR had decided to let Ginny go on the camping 
trip with them.  Plus, it would have negated her own canon, since Ginny wasn't yet 17 and 
still had the Trace on her.  There's no way she could have gone, even if Harry wanted to 
bring her (and can you imagine the conversation with Ron about that, let alone Molly.  
Yikes.)

Carol:
> Getting back to the movies (I almost forgot which list I was posting
> to!), it looks as if Ginny will have a larger part in this film and
> will be established as Harry's love interest early on. One good thing:
> the moviemakers left out Quidditch from OoP, so she'll have no motive
> for hexing Zacharias Smith in HBP. (I suppose that she'll get into the
> Slug Club by hexing a Slytherin.)
> 
> Carol, glad that Ginny had her own friends at Hogwarts, leaving the
> Trio largely to themselves when they weren't at the Burrow or 12 GP

Steph:
Ginny in the movies has been far more likable than Ginny in the books.  I don't really find 
her objectionable, but just a typical teen girl who's had to hold her own with her brothers.  
Sometimes she does stuff which isn't exactly nice, but she was one of the few people who 
was nice to Luna before OotP.  Remember, in the book it's Ginny who introduces Luna to 
everyone, not Hermione, and Luna mentions how Ginny stops people from calling her 
"Loony."   In HBP, Ginny tells Harry how nice it was of him to invite Luna to Sluggy's party, 
and how much Luna was looking forward to it.  If Ginny's willing to befriend someone 
who's an outcast, she can't be that bad, in my book.

Then again, the twins are much nicer in the movies than in the books, too.  Sometimes I 
found both their and Ginny's behavior toward Ron pretty nasty, especially in OotP.  He got 
it on both sides from them.  Well, Hermione wasn't always nice to him in OotP, either.  But 
I digress.  

I'm looking forward to how they're going to play out the romances.  I saw a spoiler 
elsewhere for a scene which sets them all up pretty nicely.  Won't say more, though.

Slightly off topic: I saw scans of a couple of HBP calendars, and there's a distinct lack of 
Hermione in them.  Harry, like usual, gets a lot of space, but Ron really gets a lot more 
than what we've seen in the past few years.  Draco, Snape, Lavender, and DD also are 
featured heavily.