As some of you may know, there have been rumors floating around on the net for sometime now regarding a new scene added to the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film. In a new interview with Australia’s Herald Sun, producer David Barron confirmed that there will indeed be one new “pivotal” scene added for the sixth Harry Potter film “set at Ron Weasley’s family home (aka The Burrow), that wasn’t in the book.” In the interview, David Barron does not give away details of this scene, but says it was added with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s full blessing.
David Barron’s full quotage is as follows:
“We don’t often have things that aren’t in the book,” producer David Barron told The Back Room.”But this was brought in because Jo (Rowling) was able throughout the quite lengthy book to keep dropping little snippets of what was happening in the outside world-there’d be people reading newspapers and talking about how somebody’s parents had been killed or somebody had been withdrawn from school because their parents didn’t think it was safe. And we’re made aware that the Muggle world is also experiencing these disasters, but thinks they are disasters rather than the work of Voldemort. The book is peppered with those moments, but we couldn’t do that quite so easily in the film. So (the extra scene) comes in the middle of the film and it just reminds us the world is no longer a safe place. Even in what would normally be considered the safe haven of the Burrow, nobody’s safe. I think you’ll like it. It’s quite effective.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is currently in production, and is due in theaters November 21, 2008. Thanks to the Snitchseeker for emailing!
Where is Nico? You were right. Tell your friend he gets a chocolate frog on me. I guess I understand why WB would do it, but I wish I knew more about the scene and its context in the plot. Obviously it would definitely show that the world is no longer safe. However, if Death Eaters just attack the Burrow, it would seem weird. I hope they go to the Burrow for a particular purpose, other than just trying to kill Harry. I just don’t know what that purpose is.
I think that’s ok. As long it’s not something invented. with J.K. blessing everything will be good!!!
But I’m still so angry about Cho/Harry relationship. Now it seems that she’s the poor girl and that it’s not her fault about anything. Do you remember how she was jelaous in the book and that hilarious chapter in Hogesmeade? and nothing of that in OOTP!grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I was wondering how WB were gonna include the effects of the DE’s on the outside world. I imagined that this kind of info from the first chapter (which is probably the most dispensable chapter in the book) would be grouped with info convayed by the order or harry’s friends or DD into another scene at hogwarts or the burrow, so I’m pretty happy with this move by WB
Matea,don’t worry.Katie Leung comes back in HBP in order to fix the plotholes of OotP and show that Harry is moving on now and Katie said that her part is brief because they want to show that Harry does like Ginny and not Cho from this film.
Now, I guess that except for the Burrow scene from what David Barros has said…there WILL be some scenes with disasters in the Muggle World from Death Etaers and Voldemort. Right? He just seems to mean that…And it seems great.It will give a darker tone in the film except for the lessons with Dumbledore and the whole Snape/Draco plotline.
It’s definitely necessary in film to create new ways of conveying information, as a lot of devices that work in books just don’t work in movies. It’s great they’re making an such effort to keep all of these ideas in the film though I hope its not at the expense of key plot points. We’re all going to be dying to find out what the scene is now!
I was very scared when I saw the little snippet of this on the home page, but reading David Barron’s quote, I don’t think it’s going to be bad anymore. It sounds like it’s going to be okay.
I can’t really imagine they’ll send DEs to attack because that’s a book 7 moment, but who knows. If it’s ‘pivotal’, maybe some disaster hits the village that the Weasley’s live at? And do we think that Scrimgeour is not in HBP (?), so the Christmas scene at the Burrow would be pointless otherwise?
I can also imagine them listening to the wizarding wireless news over Christmas dinner or something, maybe a news flash interrupting that singer that Mrs Weasley likes (actually that would be really cool of they could get a singer to do a jazzy ‘hot cauldron full of love’ number!). The wireless is a good way of conveying information about the effects of DEs. I liked how they put the wireless into OotP in the common room. I really liked all the common room stuff in OotP, with the music, it made it more of a real environment :)
Clearly, adding additional scenes to a film of this kind isn’t something they ought to do lightly, but if it’s in keeping with the tone of the source material and is done intelligently, I have no problem with it. One of my absolute favourite scenes of the series so far was the sequence they added to Prisoner of Azkaban of Harry tracking Pettigrew on the Marauder’s Map; it really helped deepen the mystery of the Pettigrew/Black story in a way that was concise, tense and unexpected, yet felt totally in keeping with the books, reminding me a lot of “The Egg and the Eye” from GoF. If the scene they add to HBP can match that for quality (if the script extract above is legit, it seems to read OK), then I’ll be fine with it. :)
Maybe this scene is supposed to be one of the incidences later reported in teh news where the ruckus in the “West country” is thought to be a hurricane? Of course I thought the hurricane activity was supposed to be a bit more toward the Wiltshire area of England.
The scene given above (thanks, John & Icbaseball) not only adds the element of danger (and introduces Fenrir!) but develops the relationship between Harry and Ginny, which is also needed. However, I cannot imagine Hermione referring to Mr. Weasley as “Arthur”; she’s quite a bit too proper for that, isn’t she?
The vanishing cabinet reference seems pretty obvious, but, given the restrictions of film, is probably unavoidable.
Yeah, I thought Hermione calling him Arthur was odd too and when I saw this on IMDB last month I thought it was fake. However with Fenrir being cast now and this story confirming this piece of leaked script we know the guy on IMDB is 100% legit.
I think it might look good actually. It sounds good at least.
What I read in the imdb boards was okay and there was some Harry/Ginny action and everything so at least that sounded pretty good :)
But I’m always weary of additional scenes because they usually mean that something from the book is left out. Oh well, there is no point in getting upset at this stuff I guess.
I think it sounds interesting and if Jo gave her blessing then that is all that matters to me, she is the one I trust when it comes to this stuff. Besides we did know that she reads through the scripts to make sure nothing is completely out of wack.
Where is Nico? You were right. Tell your friend he gets a chocolate frog on me. I guess I understand why WB would do it, but I wish I knew more about the scene and its context in the plot. Obviously it would definitely show that the world is no longer safe. However, if Death Eaters just attack the Burrow, it would seem weird. I hope they go to the Burrow for a particular purpose, other than just trying to kill Harry. I just don’t know what that purpose is.