Hermione/Emma Watson (Re: The Romance (was HBP))

[Carol]

md wrote: 
> I don't think WB had anything to do with it. I think it's Kloves. He distilled the characters to what he believes are their basic structures, hero, comic sidekick and well-of-knowledge. <snip>

Carol responds:
One way to test your theory would be to compare the writing of those three characters in OoP, which was scripted by Michael Goldenberg, with the films scripted by Steve Kloves. I don't care much for OoP (too much Umbridge, too little Snape, too much rewriting), so I'm not really prepared to say whether the three are stereotyped in that film. Anyone know offhand whether Hermione also gets Ron's lines in OoP?

Carol, who rather liked Kloves's version of the Ron/Hermione scenes at the Yule Ball but hated his treatment of the first and third tasks (nothing to do with those two characters)