Susan Bones as a metaphor for movie contamination

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 90966

Jim Ferer (me):" Reason to Fight Movie Contamination #6:

The girl who played Susan Bones is Chris Columbus's daughter."

Sawsan:" UMM, yes Jim, we've established that. We were also saying 
how she has
been mentioned in the book a few times and later, her Auntie Amelia
Bones (who is part of the Wizengamot and was at Harry's hearing in
OotP) told Susan that Harry could produce a corpreal Patronus, which
excited her and she joined the DA. We were speculating that perhaps
she will get a bigger role in later books, now that she has joined the
DA and now that Voldie's return has been proven."

Agreed, but the post I was responding to speculated that JKR had 
asked Steven Kloves to include Susan more. Too much has been made of 
JKR and Kloves's collaboration.  Kloves isn't the director, and a lot 
can happen between his hand and the screen; so we can't infer that 
much from the inclusion or otherwise of elements in the movies.  It's 
like the speculation that was going around that Hagrid was the one to 
die in OotP because Robbie Coltrane's contract was running out.  We 
know the answer to that one.

We saw more of several characters; in fact, the number of significant 
characters expanded dramatically.

Jim Ferer