New HBP commercial

[Carol]

Leakey has a detailed description of a new HBP commercial:

http://the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/5/9/detailed-description-of-new-tv-commercial-for-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince

or try http://tinyurl.com/r3o2og

I'll just be lazy and quote the more interesting bits:

- Shot of Hermione/Harry at the top of the tower
<snip>
- Harry in the coffee shop/diner. Reading the Daily Prophet. Headlines include "Bridge Collapse: Death Toll Rises", "Harry Potter, The Chosen One?", and "______ New Minister Promises Swift Action". <snip>
- The waitress checks out Harry and gives him a smile. Harry checks his breath.
- Dumbledore to Harry: "What about your activities outside the classroom? I can't help wondering if..."
<snip>
- Harry to Dumbledore: "Oh no, no. I mean, she's brilliant, we're friends." <snip>
- Lavender in the Hospital Wing, with Snape/Slughorn/Dumbledore in the background
- Lavender (indignant): "I happen to be his girlfriend".
<snip>
- Shot of Ron out cold in the hospital bed, Ginny sitting next to him in a chair.
- Hermione standing on other side of the bed, looking ready for a fight. Hermione: "I happen to be his...friend".
<snip>
- Hospital Wing - Snape/Slughorn/Dumbledore/
Harry. Snape is holding a golden cylinder looking bottle with a top resembling a teapot fliptop.
- Dumbledore: <snip> "Don't we yearn, to feel love's keen sting" <snip>

Carol now:
It sounds as if they're taking liberties with the book: Hermione as a bitter rival of Lavender rather than pointedly ignoring her and Ron, Dumbledore thinking that Harry is in love with Hermione (what?), Harry flirting with a waitress (surely not in the cafe where HRH have fled after the wedding, but where else?).

I rather like the idea of Snape in the background, somehow still in charge of medicinal potions even though he's no longer Potions master, with the hint that he's using his specialized knowledge to fight the Dark Arts and is strongly allied with Dumbledore. The film will need something like that (in addition to the scene in which he apparently removes the curse from the opal necklace) to create sufficient ambiguity to make at least a few viewers (not those of us who've read the books, obviously) wonder at the end of the film whether he's actually Dumbledore's man even though he's killed him. Assuming, of course, that anyone is still in the dark on that point.

Carol, understanding the need for condensation but wishing that the filmmakers wouldn't otherwise tamper with a perfectly good plot