DH actors

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> It seems that they cast an actress to play Hermione's mother in DH. Didn't we already see Hermione's parents in CoS? Does anyone know if it's the same actress or a different one?
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> http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/3/4/mrs-granger-cast-for-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows
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> zanooda
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Carol responds:

Not only that, they've cast an actress, Melanie Slade, as Hermione's friend who watches a Quidditch game with her!

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sports/theo-walcotts-girlfriend-lands-role-in-harry-potter-film_100161618.html

http://tinyurl.com/betpvk

They've made the book into two movies only to add uncanonical scenes? 

Maybe the Quidditch game substitutes for Bill and Fleur's wedding as the scene of the DEs' attack? How will they handle that?

Besides, the kids aren't a Hogwarts, so Ron and Harry won't be playing and Hermione, no Quidditch fan, has no reason to attend a game. But presumably, the boys will be with her. It would be impossible to get them to Tottenham Court Road with her if they were playing.

OTOH, after the Seven Potters scene, they'd have no reason to go to a Quidditch game (did the teams even play after the DE takeover of the Ministry?) and before that, Harry has to stay safely at 4 Privet Drive.

It sounds as if they're really taking unnecessary liberties with the story.

Potioncat wrote:
> It's very obvious what their names are. The Grangers' first names were Rose and Hugo.

> Yes, they were! Look at it, Ginny's kids are named after Harry's "family" and Bill's daughter has a French name. It appears Fred and George were named for Molly's brothers. So the Weasley naming tradition is to name children after the family-in-law. <snip>

Carol responds:
Well, not exactly. Molly's brothers were Fabian and Gideon Prewett, so Molly gave their first initials to Fred and George but not their names. Some of the middle names are for relatives, though. I think that JKR said in an interview that Ginny's middle name is Molly (after her mother) and Ron's is Bilius, after his uncle (presumably Arthur's unfortunately named brother).

I always figured that Rose and Hugo were named on the same principle as Fred and George, with the boy being given his mother's first initial (H) and the daughter her father's (R). 

And there's always the possibility that the Grangers' first names are Wendell and Monica, the names that Book!Hermione gave them when she sent them to Australia as the Wilkinses. (I hope that they still remember how to set up a dental practice and fill cavities!)

Carol, who feels that DH is off to a very unpromising start and wishes that they'd follow the book more closely!