Interview with HP screenwriter

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 11796

Hi --

keith.fraser at st-annes.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> Follow this link to read it, it's very encouraging.
>
> http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=8111
>
> Wonder what the thing that couldn't be put in because something in
> book 5 would make it impossible was?

Yes, believe it or not, I actually did read this story (I have a habit
of skipping casting posts & the like).  Anyway, I read it mainly because
I'd heard somewhere before that when they first met, JKR asked Kloves
who his favorite character was.  She said that she just melted &
instantly took to him when he said, "Hermione."  So, of course, I love
him too!

Anyway, I thought this interview was full of very interesting
information.  One of the things that really interested me (aside from
wondering what couldn't be put in b/c of Book 5 and wondering what it
was that he wrote into the SS/PS script that made her say, "Aha.  You
sense something that's going on."  Wonder what *that* might be??!) was
the following statement that Kloves said JKR said to him with respect to
the increasingly dark tone of the series:

> She just said to me, “Man, they haven’t seen anything yet.
>
> Wait until they get to last book.” The series is going dark.
>
To all those people who say that this series is just a "childrens'
series" after all and JKR is aware of her children readers and she won't
go too dark and blah, blah, blah -- take a look at that.  She's said it
before, but the above statement really reinforces what she's maintained
all along.  She isn't going to "tone it down" -- I can't wait!  Kloves
said she is "fearless," and I think that's a great thing for this
series.  Yay!

There was also lots of good (and comforting) information about the
upcoming movie and the cast and how it's all being handled.  I feel
better ... (sending the link to a friend who was just telling me this
weekend that she wasn't sure if she would see the movie)

Penny


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