DH actors

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
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> > By the way, here's Yaxley--played by a 25-year-old! (Obviously,
the canonical Yaxley has to be older given that he was a DE during VW1.)
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> zanooda:
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> He is nothing like I imagined at all :-). Too young, and where is
that brutish face?

Carol again:
Exactly! Maybe they'll use make-up to suggest brutishness--or the kid
is a good actor. (Twenty-five is a kid to me, if anyone wonders.)
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Carol earlier:
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> > Wonder who will play Pius Thicknesse and other minor but important
characters?
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> zanooda:
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> I'm not sure they consider Thicknesse important enough. I think they
can easily drop him from the movie :-).
>
Carol responds:
I'm not so sure. They seem to be including just about everybody else,
and Yaxley's main contribution is to Imperius Pius Thicknesse so that
Scrimgeour can be killed and the DEs can take over the Ministry. Also,
Harry encounters Thicknesse at the Ministry in the same segment that
includes  Reg Cattermole (or his impersonation). Since the film is in
two parts and the filmmakers have the chance (for once) to include
canonical details that would otherwise have to be dropped, I see no
reason not to include Thicknesse. Besides, Percy's turning Thicknesse
into a human hedgehog provides the bit of comedy that, ironically,
leads to Fred's dying with a smile on his face.

Thicknesse may not be important in himself, but he's linked to the
whole DE takeover plot, which is crucial to the film. (They'll have to
use lots of make-up for him, too, if the film character has a brow
ridge like Book!Thicknesse's. No Neanderthal or Homo Erectus running
around these days to recruit for the part.)

What I wonder is whether they'll drop Scrimgeour and have it be Fudge
who's murdered, in which case, it will be Fudge who gives HRH the
items that DD bequeathed them. But I recently read an interview with
Robert Hardy, who says that his part as Fudge has been "erased" from
the film, so unless he was referring to HBP rather than DH, it will
have to be Scrimgeour. But since neither Scrimgeour nor Fudge appears
in HBP, Scrimgeour will need to be introduced in some way, which will
be a bit awkward for the scriptwriter, who already has to reintroduce
Dobby. That's the price you pay for altering the storyline of a work
in progress, I suppose.

Carol, wondering if there's anything new in the HBP trailer that's
apparently starting to show up in U.S. theaters