Who really killed DD - The real story

[Tonks]

Just stumbled upon this:

http://www.hpana.com/forums/topic_view.cfm?tid=51301&p=5

It is so true.. they say that "Snape didn't kill DD, Michael Gambon 
did".

I really do worry about the films and their effect on the viewers of 
the future. DD is someone we are to look to as a model of the 
wisest, kindest, most holy of men. He is the closest thing to God in 
the series and THIS is how he is protrayed by Hollywood!!  
Idiots!!!  GOF would have been perfect if it were not for that man. 
And I blame the writer and director too. Why didn't JKR just tell 
them, DD is like God or like a great Saint. Maybe they would 
have 'gotten it' then.  But no, now we are left with an idiot for 
DD. How is the world going to grieve the death of this DD?  Too bad 
Harris didn't hang in there a few more years. That would have been 
perfect. He was so perfect for the part. And there are other British 
actors that could have replaced him far better than this man!!

I had hoped that the HP films would become classics like many of the 
old ones are. But not with this actor as the most gifted, wisest and 
powerful wizard of all time. Give me a break!! The man didn't even 
know that Harry didn't put his name in the cup. And grabbing Harry 
and shaking him made DD look worse that Uncle Vernon, for God's 
sake!!

I don't know why WB just can't get it right. There is a moral here 
somewhere, that money isn't everything. They should look for the 
teaching impact that these films can have on the children of the 
world instead of how much money will line their pockets. This is the 
chance of a lifetime to have a real impact on the moral development 
of large segments of the world's children and I think that they have 
blown it. Pity, because something like Harry Potter will not come 
around again in our lifetime.

Tonks_op