Re:New DH article (major spoiler if you haven't read the book!)

[justcarol67]

"Michelle Tague" wrote:
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> Oh I know I'm going to cry
. I don't know if I said it on here or if I just said it to a few friends
 part of me is really glad they truncated Dumbledore's funeral etc
 I was a mess when I was reading the book
 my husband picked on me for days


Carol responds:

I was a mess for days after reading HBP, too, but my concern was for Snape, and my only comfort was HPfGu, which convinced me that I wasn't delusional in hoping that Snape was acting on DD's orders. I didn't cry at all in the film, partly because it was so changed and curtailed and partly because I knew that Snape wasn't a murderer. I've also become considerably less fond of Dumbledore over the last two books, especially DH.

I do expect to cry in DH, though, especially the second half. DH (the book) was an emotional roller coaster for me--joy, sorrow, laughter, anger (lots of that). I didn't mind the endless camping trip as much as some people did, but it won't make for a good film! I hope they retain *all* the Snape scenes with as few changes as possible, painful though it was to read some of them. (Well, they'll cut a lot of his memories, but they obviously can't cut them all. And they can't get his age right in the scene where he talks to Dumbledore on the hill, but they've never indicated that he's the same age as James and Lily or that the Potters died at twenty-one, so I'll have to accept their version, like it or not.)

Carol, hoping that Phineas Nigellus gets to play his part and hoping to find him deliciously snide