crabbe and goyle?

[justcarol67]

Sophia wrote:

 <snip> I think I've figured out 
> who that boy is supposed to be! I'm reading OotP for the umpteenth 
> time, and as there are a couple of things in the PoA movie that 
> seemed to have been pinched form OotP (like some of Harry's anger 
> perhaps, and that playground) why not one more? In the Bloomsbury
ed. of OotP p.514, we read: "...it was the reaction he got from Malfoy, 
> Crabbe and Goyle. He saw them with their heads together later that 
> afternoon in the library; they were with a weedy-looking boy
Hermione whispered was called Theodore Nott."

Carol responds:
I actually have high hopes for Theodore Nott, who according to JKR (on
her official site), is Nott, erm, *not* part of Draco's gang. I hope
this boy was just an extra, playing the part that should have been
Goyle's, and that Theo will have an identifiable role of his own in
the later movies (preferably starting in OoP as preparation for HBP
and whatever Book 7 will be called). I've argued on the main list that
he's probably the same person as the "stringy Slytherin boy" who sees
the Thestrals. His mother, we know from JKR's site, is dead, and why
have two similarly described Slytherin boys?

Anyway, movies aside, I think Theo may be fairly important in the next
book. If he were to find out that Draco's father deserted his in the
MoM ("Leave Nott! Leave him, I say!"), we could see some sparks flying
between the two boys. Theo could even be the person who changes
houses, assuming that's not just a rumor.

At any rate, whether the skinny boy in the PoA movie is intended to be
Theodore or not, the real (book) Theo is in a Harry-like situation--
motherless and effectively fatherless, with his father in either
Azkaban or St. Mungo's, depending on how badly he was wounded. Will
Narcissa take in this pureblood "orphan" on orders from Voldemort? Or
will Snape have a teenage ward on his hands over the summer? I really
hope that JKR will make good use of him in the plot since she's taken
the trouble to give him a personality and a background, though
unfortunately she didn't let us read that scene between Draco and Theo
that she edited out of the book.

As for the skinny Slytherin boy in the film, he seems too Goyle-like
(except for his build) to be the quiet, intelligent, solitary Theo.
Maybe he's one of the Slytherin chasers--a walk-on who will walk off
when Joshua Herdman returns up and can take up the cudgel as Goyle.

If it's relevant, the boy who played the Hufflepuff seeker in the film
is not the young man who'll play Cedric Diggory in GoF. He's just a
Hufflepuff extra. I think (and hope) that the same is true in this
case (only, of course, this one is a *Slytherin* extra).

Carol