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i wasn’t able to read Leaky news for more than a week so i’m just happy to read about the trio again. =)

Rupert Grint doesnt interview well. To much use of ‘sort of’, ‘cool’, ‘wicked’ and giving non answers. Tends to annoy the hell out of interviewers. I wonder what the ‘real’ person that JKR based Ron on is like? Would he be daft in interviews as well or more cutting and biting in his remarks. I do like RG by the way – I’ve just noticed all interviewers tend to hate interviewing him.

Interviewers who dont like to be challenged tend to not like interviewing Rupert. But I think he said enough in one sentence. When you look at all that Dan and Emma had to say, you can actually compress everything to a short sentence because its a bit redundant and basically means just one thing.

I think the most EXCRUCIATING thing of all is to have to wait until November of NEXT YEAR to see the movie!!!

Me likey Emma’s sexy brain.

It’s hilarious that a small number of people indirectly suggest that Hermione plays no role in letting Harry learn the importance of friends/loved ones. XD

To much use of ‘sort of’, ‘cool’, ‘wicked’ and giving non answers is not enough in interviews, Rupert doesn’t really have the education to have a more elaborated answer, it is ok when you’re with your teen friends to talk to them that way, but when you’re talking to adults and in showbiz at least try to comunicate a bit better, by the way Rupert is not a teen anymore, he’s going to be 20 next year which makes him a man not a teen and as an adult he should “at least” try to be more open, I know the way he is now it’s OK to his die hard fans, but for the regular interviewers he can really make the media walk away from him if he doesn’t do something drastic about his lack of vocabulary.

After OotP, I have faith in Heyman as a director (tho not in Klove’s screenwriting abilities – it was such a delight to have a break from him).

I’m not worried about HBP being lighter, it always seemed to me that HBP was the first half of the last book. I think Jo herself said something about the story skidding off the end of six and into the beginning of seven. I just wish we could watch the movies that way – imagine, starting out with fun, laughter, romance; moving into darker action, the death of DD, Snape’s identity and apparenty perfidy revealed; (insert quick interval here) and Boom! into Snape arriving at the Malfoy Mansion with the suspended (upended?) Muggle studies teacher; crazy action; (insert brief breath-catcher here, while trio wander about assorted uk’r forests); wild action, death, dismay; crazy finale!!! Zowie! Would’ve been WICKED!

Sorry sorry sorry!! I meant David Yates has my confidence as a director. (insert caffeine here) :)

To those here saying that Emma Watson is trying to steal the ‘show’ for Hermione by suggesting that Hermione helps Harry realise the importance of friendship – GO BACK AND READ THE BOOKS AGAIN. Hermione DOES do this, along with other characters including Dumbledore, Ron, Neville and Luna. Emma talks about Hermione more because that is the character the interviewers ask her about.

As for Rupert, he is a man of few words and we should be used to it by now, but there’s no need for people to talk him down just becuase he isn’t as loquacious as Dan and Emma. With Rupert, you get what he thinks in a nutshell. I love him for it!

Ron wears his heart on his sleeves. Rupert on the other hand is a master at keeping his emotions neatly sealed. I think its ironic that on screen he is a master at facial expressions but in real life you wont even be able to tell just by looking at his face if he is excited or shocked or even sad or whatever. He seems very secretive and guarded of his thoughts and feelings.

All your comments make me remember the hilarious “Harry Potter and the Chamber Pot of Azerbaïdjan”, with the interveiws of the actors… (with Jeremy Irons). I understand better now the Rupert/Ron thing in that video!

It’s not the first time that Emma talks about Hermione as if she’s the main character and everything revolved around her, so I can understand what people are talking about. I love re-reading the books, to remind myself how our real Hermione really is, ‘cause in the films.. God, it’s such a disappointment. It’s sad that such an amazing character isn’t seen in her true form, with her qualities and flaws, that’s what makes her so amazing and so close to our hearts.

Apologies for this long post:

To be fair, very few of the characters are seen in their true form in the movies because Heyman keeps stressing that the main focus has got to be on Harry. So we get a mostly clownish/wimpish Ron, a Hermione who is either whimpering or being supergirl, and the other characters are mostly one-dimensional because they don’t get enough screen-time.

This is the fault of the screenplay writer(s), the directors, and the producers (and a little bit of JK who approves everything).

It’s not Emma’s fault that she is constantly asked about Hermione, but she hasn’t said anything that isn’t true about Hermione – you can find plenty of references in the books. Of course she is going to talk more about Hermione, in the same way that Dan will talk more about Harry, and Evanna Lynch talks mostly about Luna. It’s path of the course when answering the mundane questions of journalists who clearly don’t know the books and don’t do prior research.

But Emma has never once said that Hermione is the centre of the Harry Potter universe, she has just extolled the virtues of her character, which is what she’s supposed to do, especially when constantly asked.

A lot of this stems from people believing that the character of Hermione has been made more important in the movies than Ron. If that is true, it’s still not Emma’s fault. But people use the movie posters as an example. If you look at 4 of the 5 movie posters, Hermione is only more prominent on one of them – the GOF poster. On the rest she’s actually less prominent or equal. In terms of the script – blame Kloves and Heyman. But don’t forget that Ron gets lines that were supposed to be for Neville or other minor characters. It’s all about a Hollywood formula where everything has to fit into neat little boxes of a male lead, a female lead, eye candy, comic relief, a side kick and a wise old codger.

So I guess what I’m saying in my overlong post is that if you want to blame someone for these movies not fitting the books, blame Warner Brothers and their insistence on using a Hollywood…one that has actually worked for them.

After reading HBP again, I really hope they include Hermione trying to get revenge on Ron by going with McClagen (or however its spelled) to the party. I love the icy tone of “I like REALLY GOOD quidditch players” paraphrasing.

If this bloody film’s main theme is gonna be Ron/ Hermione/ Lavender then I’m giving it a miss. I’m with Dan, give me darkness over comedy any time.

Some great comments about Dan too. I agree with El caz, Dan will probably do darker stuff which is why I’m really interested in his post HP career. This film will probably bore him after doing Equus, MBJ etc…

I agree with whoever pointed out that, until the end of the book, HBP was one of the lightest books of the series and the only book since PS/SS really where Harry has actually been happy and care-free. I’m starting to wonder if everyone has read the same book.

The end is terrible, really dark, and heart-breaking ( I cried and cried ). But, the rest? Nope, it’s mostly fun and games with a few dark Riddle moments thrown into the mix. We get love potions, people making out left and right, lucky potions, a lot of Quittich antics, we get teenage hormonal angst and fighting, we get jealous monsters trying to claw their way out of young men’s chests, we get the character of Slughorn who is the definition of a comedic character, and most importantly we get our most whimsical Dumbledore since PS/SS.

They haven’t ignored the dark parts. We’ve heard Dan talk about the tragic side to Slughorn’s character, we’ve heard Yates talk about the relationship between Harry and Dumbledore, his poignant funeral, and the inferi and cave, and Snape’s ambiguity, we’ve seen their designs for the orphanage, and we’ve heard Heyman talk about people breaking apart and learning the importance of their relationship (I think he may be referring to Ron and Hermione’s split here, I can’t think of what else it would be).

They are exploring the deeper parts of the book, and they are exploring the lighter parts of the book. The movie wouldn’t be representative of the book if it didn’t include both the light and the dark. OOTP was a much much darker book, with a depressive aura throughout, and HBP is nothing like OOTP in tone. Even the fighting and death in HBP has a different tone than in OOTP. I certainly wouldn’t expect HBP to be as dark and depressive as OOTP was because the book isn’t. The real person who is responsible for all this romance, comedy, and fun is J.K. Rowling.

I also suspect that each actor and crew member is discussing what is most relevant to their role and what they are most excited about. Dan said Rupert and Emma prefer lighter storylines, so of course that’s what they will talk about, plus it makes up a majority of their roles in this book. Dan has talked about the cave and Slughorn when he was filming those scenes and he prefers dark material. Yates seems to be excited about the romance because it’s a fresh change from all the darkness and angst of OOTP, and people are always excited about what’s new. Plus he may also like the challenge of pushing other actors besides Dan. He said in an interview that it would be much less Dan’s story this time, that Dumbledore, Snape, and Ron and Hermione get more focus in this film than they had in OOTP. He might find that new and challenging. Heyman seems to like the character and relationship development that occurs in the book with ” characters growing apart as well as realizing the importance of one another”; he’s said that a few times. I think the focus on character and relationship development (not the romances necessarily but all the main characters) is a good thing in my book, since I love the series because of the characters and mostly because of the trio relationship, the Dumbledore/Harry relationship, and Snape’s character.

Sorry for the long post.

Sectumsempra please.

Exactly how it was written in the books, and I shall be happy with the entire movie 0.0

I loved those interviews. I was actually laughing during that last bit of the second interview (Dumbledore’s wand). Oh, I’m going to love this movie.

I’m feeling a bit wary about the fluffy adjesctives being used in all the interviews:

“Steve Kloves submitted a fun script” “Ootp was about politics, HBP will be about sexual politics…” “Ron gets a girlfriend in this one. hehehehehehe”

These interviews all say the same thing over and over. mostly pandering to the non HP readers… ugh

new content is very very minimal. So I’m beginning to question the point of reading them at all…

Fantastic post, T_D_O.

The split you refer to I think is that of Harry and Ginny at the end. Ron and Hermione can’t split because they haven’t actually got together yet. But I agree with you that up until the last few chapters, the books IS much less darker than the previous two books. There IS comedy there – just look at Slughorn’s party, and the antics of Ron and Hermione, and even Harry’s fumbling attempts to understand his feelings for Ginny. I’m looking forward to getting different angles on the HBP film adaptation, especially if there is more of Dumbledore in it (I think we have to understand the people around Harry in order to understand Harry).