Emma Watson (Re: The Romance)

[Richard Shepard]

> Carol responds:
> 
> Fortunately for Rupert, they haven't assigned Hermione to play Keeper or snog Lavender Brown! (Granted, neither scene involves speaking lines, but at least he gets screen time.) And, oh, yes, he gets to eat the love-potion-filled chocolates and declare his love for Romilda Vane. (I've seen clips and trailers.) Don't know whether she's assigned any of his lines; in the book, Hermione and Ron aren't speaking half the time, and the rest of the time, their lines aren't really interchangeable. No heroics to assign to her, either, at a guess--their battle with the DEs, left out of the film, is offpage.
> 

Richard: 

Rupert has some good stuff in this movie.  I thought he was spot on with the love potion & poisoned wine sequence.  And his quidditch fears turned into success plays better in the movie than the book because we didn't see his first run at quidditch in OotP.


> Carol, who is definitely not "crazy about Emma"
>

Richard:

Well, you are a girl :)  
I don't think her magic twinkling eyes work on girls.