Bill's injury (Re: The Problems with the DH movie)

[Richard Shepard]

> > Richard:
> > 
> > Well, these two shots certainly make me think it will be 
> > Bill and Fleur's cottage and Bill will have the facial scars.  
> 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> Yeah, that's Bill all right :-). Funny, I always thought that Fenrir injured Bill with his teeth because of all this talk about him being bitten, but on these photos the wounds seem to be from nails (or claws, whatever)...
>


Richard: 

I just finished rereading HBP.  Here is the description of Bill's injury when Harry sees him.  

"Harry looked over Hermione's shoulder and saw an unrecognizable face lying on Bill's pillow, so badly slashed and ripped that he looked grotesque."
and Madam Pomfrey says "I've tried everything I know, but there is no cure for werewolf bites."

I picture nasty slashes across the face and head (where hair will never grow back) and partially ripped out pieces of neck and cheek with teeth marks.  

A few deep, never-healing slashes across the face seem reasonable as representations of the injury for the movie though.  The actor would probably have a much harder time doing his job if he had enough prosthetics to make his face really disfigured... and it would be really distracting for the whole wedding thing :)