MODERATORS: can someone please get in here and clean up this comment thread? I didn’t come on here to read about world politics, no matter how well-intentioned the posts.

Amina, it’s funny how you can change the subject so quickly… you have just showed all of us what you really meant writting all those comments. It’s just, you don’t want people to be happy for Daniel!

First of all, I’ll tell you: I’m not American. So you didn’t even got that right. I live in Spain, but my mother is from South Africa and my father was from Algelia, and I don’t like when some people like you are so “outraged” for things that actually can be helpful for us, like this movie.

It’s obvious you like to take things out of contest, because if you read the article, Kathy doesn’t say he chose Dan because of that. She says Dan shares many things with his son, and one of them is that one, just that. Using that as an excuse to write about politics doesn’t make sense.

It’s not that I don’t like your intervetion, it’s that I think it’s very off topic and you have not documented yourself well before writting. You didn’t know who Dan Eldon really was, you thought he was American. You haven’t read his diaries. You didn’t read his mothers words before writing. You were talking about a movie you haven’t even seen yet.

What I understand reading your comments is you don’t like American movies who tell stories from their ponit of view, often very patriotic and too “heroic”. Well, I’m sure this movie is not going to be like those. First, because he lived most of his life in Africa, so when he died, it was an African dying, so if you are really from there, you should feel this, like I feel it. Second, reading her mother’s words, it’s obvious the movie will be very different of that. And if you’d know Daniel Radcliffe just a little, that’s not the type of movies he want to be part of.

Basically, you are prejudicing, and the only reason I find to that here, is that: you are just a basher, and this is your way to try to dirty this news. I’ve been reading Leaky since many years ago, I know HP fandom too well, I know how it works, and the extrems some people reach in order to bash…

If you really are from Somalia and you have internet access that means you come from one of the rich familes, and the ways those familes use to get money… that’s more shameless that what those you criticize do. So either you are lying, or you are not the better person to be judging.

Amina, again, you are changing my words. I didn’t say 6 millions were saved, I know that was nothing at all like that! My father was there helping, that’s an aproximation of the nunmer of people who were dying because of hunger. Thanks to Dan Eldon the world learned about that, and food was sent there, I think that’s better than nothing.

I’m sorry, but I agree with Kelly all our posts should be deleted, it’s too offtopic. Look Amina, if you want to continue talking about this, please send me an email: leoleo_ds@hotmail.com I would be more than happy to share with you my father’s pictures and expiriences, and talk about what you wrote in those sites.

Leonard

“If you really are from Somalia and you have internet access that means you come from one of the rich familes, and the ways those familes use to get money… that’s more shameless that what those you criticize do. So either you are lying, or you are not the better person to be judging”.

that is a stupid commet, firstly I am from North somalia which is relatively safe, and internet access is in abundance. the are literally thousands of internet cafes. Also my i remind you that somalia has one of the best internet connection in East africa, even though it has no fuctioning government.

I just hope the movie shows the suffering of the somalis and not just focus on the journalist. and turn it into some rose-tinted hero worship movie.

Ok, I think everyone has had their say. Now its time to get back to what this site is really for. I am glad the actors of the HP films are getting other movies. I am reallly looking forward to the JK A Year In The Life. I hope it comes to the US soon:)

ALi hirsi, I’m sorry if I offended you, I have my own reasons to say that, like I said before, send me an email and we can talk more about it. Basically, I think it’s not fair the ones who live in the “rich” part of a country are the ones criticizing certain things, but if you don’t agree, I’d like to talk about it using emails.

The true is we don’t even know if the movie will be based in that time of Dan Eldon’s life or the time when he was in Kenya for example. And he was not a journalist, he worked as a photojournalist for Reuters, and focusing on his life they would be focusing in the lives of my other people he knew. That was exactly my point, I think everyone could learn a little bit about this young man before prejudicing. That’s all.

It cannot be an accident that at a moment in history when the US might face international community’s critical gaze for sponsoring the illegal invasion of Somalia by proxy that have caused unmitigated death and destruction in Somalia, a caring young journalist, whose life was cut short by brutal and unjust killing by angry mob in Somalia, is being enlisted to turn a potentially story of genocide and shame to one of America’s heroism. Now, as how many Somalia lives have been saved as a result of US shock and Awe “operation restore hope” saved in 1993? According the UN: “The humanitarian garb of Operation Restore Hope was superficial from the start. Launched in December 1992 just as the famine was waning, the dispatch of troops had more to do with testing the newly emerging doctrine of ‘humanitarian intervention’ than saving Somalis. An independent review by the U.S. Refugee Policy Group concluded that the operation saved between 10,000 and 25,000 lives rather than the two million initially advertised.3 This sober reality was noted at the time, though few chose to listen amidst the hype generated among the media, the UN and the Pentagon. Much more modest forms of relief aid could have achieved exactly the same result.” http://hornofafrica.ssrc.org/de_Waal3/

Amina, really, why don’t you read? He was not American! And his mother has been trying to do this movie since 2003! But they were waiting for the right actor! You can google about it and find many articles from 2003 and 2004. You don’t know if the ones producing this movie are Americas. We got your point, you don’t like America, repeating it won’t make you been right. You are so blind you don’t see all the good things this movie can bring, you don’t see all the love this young man had for Africa, you just want to think it’ll be another typical American movie… whatever, I think you just are just another typical basher. I just can not understand how Leaky always delete these kind of comments, but when it is related with Daniel people can say whatever they want, no matter how offensive it is, or it is based in right facts or not.

Another tragic death of a young man???!!! Is Dan trying to follow Alan Rickman in his early movie reputation as a dying man? Is this the ultimate thrill for a young actor; to die on stage? What is going on in the head of that boy? I don’t know how much influence he has on the enscenering, but I think that when he has his way the scene of “the forest again” will be much more spectaculair then the rather prosaic line in the book.

Amina, I can respect that these are your personal and political opinions, and that you want to get them out there. However, I do not feel that your comments address what we were meant to talk about on this particular comments board: Daniel Radcliffe’s new role. When we speak of Dan Eldon, it is on topic - but you are bringing another level to it. I don’t want to sound unfeeling - I’m very, very sorry for your loss and pain. But truly, this Harry Potter site isn’t the place for it.

Ooops….I didn’t mean for that all to be crossed out! Sorry. Hopefully it’s easy to still read it.

This piece of news is the best I could receive as a movie lover and a Dan fan. This young man makes me so proud of him that sometimes I feel I am going to explode. He has made my year with his excellent performances first in ‘Equus’ and then in ‘December Boys’ and ‘My Boy Jack’ and of course in ‘OotP’. This new project looks fantastic and I am sure he is going to excell again. It seems people involved in the film industry are really eager to have him in their projects. Go Dan!!! We are eager to see you portraying a new character. Best of luck in your new project!

quoted from DeathlyH on December 30, 2007 @ 11:53 AM

Ooh I hope this is confirmed. Finally Dan will be able to show his Jewishness on the big screen! That’s a reason i love Dan: he’s Jewish, and proud of it!

euh, did he not already did that in Equus? Maybe those who have seen the play life on stage can verify if that part of the Jewish tradiotion was followed.

Sorry, but althrough I know his mother is Jewish, and he therefor by definition too, I am still searching for the intervieuw where he speaks about being raised in a Jewish tradition. I got the impression that it was not a main issue in the Radcliffe-family.

I think we should all make a Herculean effort to keep the Leaky as a place to discuss all things Potter. I am sure that is what the Webmistress would want as well:)

Perhaps because Leaky sees that there are other voices and others whose lives and loss are worthy of mourning. Ahmed, one of my 3 nephews, killed by the US helicopter gunship ,in October 1993, was planning to come to Canada to complete his studies in chemistry. It must in our blood for my first degree was also in Chemistry. He was the only child for his mother. His mother has unique genetic marker in the blood RH factor which attack s unborn child[male only] by passing bad genetic material through the pleasanta. The child would born perfectly healthy and would die suddenly within 2-3 week. Then a doctor figured this out. While she was pregnant with Ahmed, she was kept under constant medical supervision so that her bad RH (-) could be suppressed. Ahmed was born healthy and remained to be the pride and joy of his mother. He studied hard and passed his A level equivalence with flying colours. He enrolled in the Gahar national university and was in his 3 year when the civil war came to Somalia’s capital city. I went to a Catholic Church here in Canada asking for help, they were happy to sponsor him. We were planning to bring him to Rome and to Canada when he was killed. He was one of close to ten thousand Somalis killed by the United States during their short stay 1992-993. many also do not know that US was the main backer of Somali dictator Siyad Barre and in fact the US was not coming to Somalia to ‘save;’ it but more like returning to the scene of its political crime. Now, how it’s that Daniel’s mother can receive Hollywood backing but our dead cannot receive justice? And some are asking that my comments be deleted and that I shut up and go away?