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This scene sounds like it’ll be decent and will flow woth the movie. And as long as Jo is okay with it, I guess I am too. Although I really wish they weren’t making the Vanishing Cabinet business so obvious!

Oops, I meant ‘with the movie.’ :)

followthebutterflies, yes, I agree, I wish they didn`t make the Vanishing Cabinet so obvious ! It`d be better to find out @ the end, but oh well. :]

I’m sorry, but David Yates makes me absolutely livid. If you are going to make the time to make the movie, why make up a scene when you’re already leaving more than too much out from the actual book? They could take the time and money they are using on this made up scene and use it on the Weasley family they have made fall apart. They could have casted Fleur, Bill, and Charlie and brought back Fred, George, and Percy and had the right story all along. But he insists on adding in this scene that isn’t in the book, and making the whole movie seem like a completely different story. I could go on about it, but I’ll be kind. It just makes me furious. I’d love to see these movies done well, and do justice to the books, even though that probably isn’t possible.

@ kate That’s EXACTLY what i’m saying! :-)

I’m pretty sure the scene posted at IMDB is legit. The person who posted it has had real scoops in the past, and all the recent news has supported his claims. The best theory I’ve seen is that the source is someone who works in the special effects department, which is why he only has access to certain parts of the script. He definitely DOES NOT have the approval of WB to leak this stuff.

I think people are worrying too much about the dialogue. This is probably from an early draft of the screenplay. Kloves is an American, but there will be plenty of live British people on set to complain if the dialogue sounds phony. Plus, the director will make changes to some scenes while they’re filming. The finished scene will probably have a number of differences from what we see here.

I also wouldn’t worry too much about the plot of DH being ruined if the Burrow catches fire. The Weasleys know a thing or two about magic, you know. I expect they can put out a fire and clean up smoke damage a bit faster than muggles can.

oh i hope that isn’t the actual scene they’re going to use that john and lcbaseball22 posted. it would go against what j.k. rowling put in the book about the ministry giving the burrow every protection they know… plus wouldn’t dumbledore put his own protection on the burrow since that is where harry spends most his time outside of hogwarts?

Oh for goodness sake, are we back to bashing David Yates again? Listen very carefully everyone: David Yates is a DIRECTOR. The decision to add that scene is a SCRIPTWRITING decision, not a directing decision, and… ah, who cares, people have made Yates their handy scapegoat for all their sorrowful little woes about the movie, and nothing I say is going to make any difference.

Myself, I’m glad Bill and Fleur aren’t in the movie, as their storyline is pointless in HBP, and they’re easily replaceable (most obviously with Remus and Tonks) in DH.

And this new attack scene at the Burrow? I like it. I’m not worried about it being “pointless” or whatever, because (a) JKR has given her blessing, which is good enough for me, and (b) it sounds like a cool action sequence.

Oh, one other thing: I will admit that Hermione calling Mr. Weasley “Arthur” seems really out-of-character for her, but Hermione has been so wildly out of character in all of these movies (excepting the first one) that I think she’s beyond help or hope in the films, so I’m not too bothered by it. The “Arthur” nitpick is just that: a nitpick.

im excited!!! yay for hbp movie!

laura aggrees, :)

were in history, and this news brightened my (roses) day!

but if this is a script they can change some of it right? it doesn’t have to be EXACTLY like in here.

@danielle: Okay i have no idea what you’re talking because Hermione has never called Mr. Weasley, Arthur and I doubt she ever will. Not in the movies or in the books. And I think Hermione is great in the movies, so are all the characters, but that’s just my opinion. But anyways, I think if the new scene they added is an attack at the Burrow then that will be great. I always wanted that to happen in the books, but obviously it didn’t because the burrow was always protected by enchantments and secret keepers. I’m assuming that’s why they had to get JKR’s approval for the scene because if it is an attack scene then it would be breaking some “magical laws.” but then again the filmmakers don’t really care when it comes to that stuff anyways, so it makes sense. I just can’t wait for the movie!

@celia: I was referring to the moment at the end of the leaked scene from the movie (see page 1 of these comments, specifically john’s post and lcbaseball22’s post), when Harry and Hermione are in conversation, and Hermione refers to Mr. Weasley as “Arthur”.

I agree that Hermione has never called him Arthur in the books. In fact, that was EXACTLY my point. It’s out of character for her to call him that, so I (and many others who’ve commented here) didn’t care for her doing it in the movie.

And for the record, I don’t hate movie!Hermione (although I admittedly came close hating her during the last half of PoA… don’t get me started), I just think she’s not the same Hermione in the books. It’s book!Hermione I love, and it disappoints me not to see her onscreen.

But overall, I love the movies, and most of my complaints about them are really just small nitpicks.

Good point Danielle – I never realized that people who complain about the storyline of the movie not exactly following the book, really deep down do like the movies too. I mean obviously we must if the have grossed up to about 4 billion world wide. Besides authors of books adapted to screen always say they are separate in their own way. P.S. whoever has the posting name followthebutterflies- that is so funny , I laughed so hard at that part of COS, Ron is so funny!

Interesting…the scene mentioned above does sound pretty authentic, considering they even need to build up Harry and Ginny’s relationship, and I don’t think there’s much scope to do that in the movie, considering all the other more important stuff they’d have to show. About Hermione calling him Arthur, Loleia, you could be right. Maybe it’s just a placeholder and they’d substitute it with “Mr. Weasley” in the movie, because you cannot have Hermione saying “Arthur”. It’s too un – Hermione -Like.

I wish the people defending Phoenix would stop mentioning what his role in the movies is. You’re putting a target on his back.

Sounds like a good scene, but I agree Hermione would never call Ron’s father Arthur. Also in the book, it is Harry who notices how ill Draco looks and the one who is more suspicious of Draco rather than Ron and Hermione.

I don’t think that in this scene the defenses of the burrow were actually broken. It looks like Harry wandered too far outside it’s protective charm. That’s why Hermione is angry at him later on. The burrow is still a save haven. Harry just wasn’t carefull.

From the “supposed” scene from IMDB: If this takes place in the middle of the movie at the Burrow then it’s most likely holidays. And if so, why in the world would Hermione be at the Burrow during this Christmas??

Well, in the book Harry was careful. That’s why I don’t like them to add scenes, because they change the characters. Harry is the best in these dangerous situations so I hope they don’t make Ginny look like she is best or more intelligent, because they did that in OotP, when she that does huge spell at the Minitry, they made her look more powerfull than Harry and the others, and that’s not true. I hope they show how powerfull and intelligent Harry is, because until now they always give the good lines and good spells to everyone else. and now is Ginny saying to him it was a trap, well, Harry is enough intelligent to realise about these things alone, he is always the quickest to realize these things when they are in dangerous situations. So I hope the scriptwriter, director and producers stop understimating Harry. Look at that scene someone posted. Most of the lines are Ginny’s lines and Hermione’s lines, like always it is others. In the book it is Harry who notices Draco is different, Hermione and Ron think Harry is crazy and don’t listen to him. And in the movie Hermione is the one telling Harry that Draco is different… again Kloves is giving Hermione lines, thoughts and ideas that are not hers!!! It was only Harry who realized that something was going on with Draco that year, and the others didn’t believe Harry.