HBP movie related question (SPOILERS)

[Carol]

Alla:
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> There was some other place where I also thought they wanted to show off Dumbledore in better light, but I cannot remember where I thought it was. Ugh.
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> I am going to become professor Trelawney and suggest that they will not show conversation about Dumbledore telling Snape that only he can decide if the soul will be repaired or not.
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> I would love to be wrong, but I also seriously doubt that Dumbledore's youthful play with muggle domination ideas will be there.
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> We shall see though.
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Carol responds:

I haven't seen HBP yet (still trying to find someone who want to see it with me!) but I suspect that, aside from trying to make DD look better (as they did, IMO, with Sirius Black in OoP), they're trying to make a complex plot clearer to viewers who haven't read the books and avoid unresolved questions like those book readers faced. We were never told whether Harry was right about Draco having a Dark Mark or not; the filmmakers apparently want to make it clear from the outset that Harry is right. (I may change my view, of course, after I've seen the film, but I've read so much about it that I feel as if I've already seen it. BTW, the film actually fell below number 1--first time that's happened to a Harry Potter film, I think. Must be because readers of the books don't like all the changes.)

With regard to DD's Muggle domination ideas, I think they *will* be in there since Rita Skeeter is back in DH 1 and young Gellert Grindelwald has been cast.

Carol, who would love to attend the HBP film with someone who hasn't read the books to see whether that person can follow the plot