What do we know about Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows?

[Richard Shepard]

> > Richard:
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> > Even the movie version of Snape is ambiguous and confusing.  I think they will have to give the viewer some insights into his actions, and a couple of flashbacks with Severus and Lily is not only the accurate way to do it but probably the easiest.  And I agree that JKR would probably object if they eliminated that story completely.  
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> > I still have hope that the film makers intend to wrap up the story fairly accurately :)
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> SSSusan:
> Oooooh, I really hope you are right, Richard.  NOT having that in the film would likely deprive this Alan Rickman fan of her most desired Snape line of the series:  "Look... at... me...."  
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> Could they possibly do that??  
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> Well, yeah, I think they could, given that they left out DD's "I'm not worried.  I'm with you" line.  :(
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Richard:

That was a good line, both touching and funny.  I think they did good in HBP with the "After all these years I just sort of go with it" line Harry says to Dumbledore.  And the "Frankly Professor, I have been asking myself that same thing for six years" line Ron says to McGonagall.  Funny, self-aware stuff I like to see in a long series :)


> My *hope* is that the PTB won't see the Snape memories as a diversion or distraction.  I think they could do a couple of the young Lily-young Snape scenes in maybe a minute, and then a couple of the Hogwarts Lily-Hogwarts Snape scenes in maybe one or two minutes more?  Done well, it could easily establish the length and depth of their relationship, as well as Snape's feelings for Lily.  Add in the quick conversations between Snape & DD as Snape confesses the prophecy overhear and makes his pledge and then his revelation about the silver doe patronus, and I think Harry [and the viewer] would get a LOT out of that.
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> Is that do-able in quick snippets, without taking up 10 minutes or so?  I'd like to think it is so that I can hold onto my hope.  I'm not sure that I fully *wanted* LOLLIPOPS (Snape's love of Lily) to be the reason for Snape's actions in turning away from Voldy and working with DD, but once JKR revealed that it was, it did make sense.  And now that we know it from JKR, I don't want it to be changed or dropped from the films.
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Richard:

I honestly think it is too important an element to eliminate completely, even within the movie universe.  Snape's actions in all the previous movies are still not fully explained.  Dumbeldore's unflappable trust in Snape is not explained.  And Harry discovering that Snape was in love with his Mother and that he had been trying to protect him for the last seventeen years is the only thing I could imagine that would make Harry stop hating Snape.