McGonagall and Snape a tad OT

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118535


potioncat wrote:
> 
> > I just read an interview with the actress who plays Ginny in GoF.  
> > Ginny and Neville will be dancing the tango at the Yule Ball.  And 
> > so will Snape and McGonagall.
> > 
> > I'd really like to see Snape and McGonagall doing the 
> > tango....perhaps on the deleted scene section of the  GoF DVD.
> 
> 
Magda responded with admirable calmness: (;-) )

> PLOT ATROCITY!!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!
> 
> *sigh*  Damned scriptwriters.
> 
> They'd better include Snape blasting the rose bushes apart - that is
> one of my favourite moments in the entire series.  Although they
> probably won't - the prats.  


Carol agrees, sort of:
I don't think they *can* remove that scene because it involves Snape
talking to "Igor" (Karkaroff), which prepares us for the later
scene(s) involving the Dark Mark. IOW, it's too important to omit.
Also, they've cut Percy's role, which may leave room for expanding, or
at least not reducing, Karkaroff's. And the Karkaroff/Snape connection
is of course crucial there. (The scene with Crouch!Moody alluding to
Snape's Dark Mark also had better not be cut. Or the Foe Glass, or
Snape's dangerous mission at the end. Altogether, he's a key player in
GoF and I hope the new director makes better use of him than Cuaron did.)

I do think it would be fun to see Rickman!Snape and Smith!McGonagall
dancing the tango, though it's way too Muggleish and un-British for my
idea of the WW, not to mention out of character for both teachers. (I
had a similar reaction to the slide projectors and Victrolas in the
Azkaban film, and Lupin's Muggle clothes and Hitler mustache. Sorry.
Wrong list!)

I do think there's a friendly rivalry and mutual respect between Snape
and McGonagall (who is old enough to be his mother and *was* his
teacher) throughout the series, and I'd love to see more interaction
between them, but nothing so uncanonical as a tango and not at the
expense of the rosebush scene!

Carol, hoping she's made this post sufficiently canon related despite
the second paragraph