DH actors

[rtbthw_mom]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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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
>

Just a reminder - in OOTP movie, remember how they use the Daily Prophet so often in 
the movie?  One of the headlines late in the movie is "Fudge Resigns" (that's from memory: 
it may be something close to that, but they do give us that information) - so technically, 
they have "covered" that part of the plot.  So they set up the need for a new MoM, even if 
they don't use "The Other Minister" to tell us who IS the new minister in HBP-movie.  They 
will need to have a new MoM, since they can't go back and cut that out of OOTP!

~Pat, de-lurking to throw this in