Casting mis-steps

[Carol]

> Carol responds: I don't remember that scene. At any rate, IMDb lists Parvati as being played by Sitara Shah, but Padma isn't listed.
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> http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0304141/
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> Carol, who was thinking that Parvati was in the first two films, too, but can't find her listed.
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> That's because the Yule Ball is in GOF :-D and those girls are Ron & Harry's dates, so I'm quite sure you've seen that scene ;-)
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> Many of the kids where in the first 3 - 4 films "representing" characters from the books, if they were not addressed by other characters and did not speak they were not credited. Since the original kids where really look-alike extras some parts where re-cast when the characters actually had to speak.
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Carol responds:

Sorry to be vague. I'm not talking about the Yule Ball, which I know is in GoF. I'm talking about the scene in PoA where the twins ostensibly appear together. I specifically mentioned Sitara Shah, who is credited as Parvati in PoA, not Shefali Chowdbury, who plays Parvati in GoF, OoP, and HBP. (Padma is not listed for PoA, at least not on the IMDb; she's played by Afshan Azad in GoF through HBP.)

I remember Parvati and her cobra Boggart that turns into a Jack-in-the Box, but I don't remember Padma at all in PoA or any earlier films. Parvati didn't speak, but she was addressed by name (by Lupin). Maybe that was sufficient to earn a credit.

Carol, wondering why the parts were recast if Padma was already present and the girls were really twins (seems unfair not to credit her when the twin who plays Parvati is credited!)