One small problem with the Film - HBP

[bboyminn]

---  Meliss9900 at ... wrote:
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> Geoff:
> I can't see Ginny being in the Fiendfyre scene when Ron and
> Hermione have been the only guys with Harry on the Horcrux 
> hunt.
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>...
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> Andie:
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> Ginny has to be there since she is the only one who knows
> where the book / diadem is. She hid it - She has to find it. 
> ...
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> Melissa: I Agree. ... Harry will make some comment to Ginny about the Diadem (assuming that they even use the diadem as a horcrux) she will realise that's where the potion book was hidden and since she hid the book she has to go with him to find the book. One thing will lead to another and viola. . .Fiendfyre escapades.
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> Melissa
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bboyminn:

Sadly Melissa, I think you are right. As if they haven't gutted
Ron's role enough already. 

But, the underlying question is, why make such an unnecessary
change, when to do it right would have taken 10 seconds longer
to film.

Changes for the sake of changes are pointless. I can see the
Burrow scene instilling a sense that things are serious now,
that the war is really ON. For me, it is not that the 
Burrow was attacked, but that the Burrow was destroyed that 
irks me. Why introduce a plot twist that requires the next 
movie to jump through all kinds of pointless hoop to resolve
the event? Why make the next plot harder, when it doesn't 
have to be harder? 

That's what I can't figure out. 

As to these changes we are discussing, I think it is always
a collaboration. We can't blame just the director or just the
screen writer, or the producers. They collectively make this
decision, even knowing that it took the plot in the wrong
direction.

There are a lot of things that need to be done in the next
two movies, and it seems pointless to spend time overcoming
their previous bad decisions. Better to not make the bad
decisions in the first place. 

Far easier to attack and damage, but not destroy, the Burrow.

Far easier to have Harry hide the book, and mark it with the
Diadem. That seems the easiest path to the next book. 

But, NO; now the plot needs unnecessary twists and turns to
overcome previous bad decision. That is a waste of good 
movie time in my opinion.

Steve/bboyminn