I don’t understand why some people are so upset with her. She has a much bigger role in Nanny McPhee than she had even in POA. In DH, she would throw crystal balls. Not exactly something that inspires an actor.

nooooooooooooooooo lol no one can ever replace her she was so perfect! im ok as long as they just leave her part out of the movies. seriously no one else could play that part.

I loved the movie Nanny McPhee! I’m glad they’re making another one. I don’t mind that she’s leaving Trelawney, even though she was BRILLIANT in that role. I doubt they’ll put her in DH anyway.

Please, they don’t have the time to include that character’s one-page cameo, when I’m sure the lot of you want everything else in the books to make it in. One must think of the expense, also, since I’m sure Ms. Thompson is not a particularly cheaply-hired actress; to have her on set for a few hours, and maybe five seconds of film, is wasted money on the WB’s part.

@Hermione, thanks for that tidbit. Fingers crossed then that Dawn Treader gets made as the previous films were pretty good so far. Though I really wish someone can make the elusive Magician’s Nephew. My favourite book of the series.

Well, they can always have Lucius Malfoy throwing the crystal balls since Jason Isaacs wants as much screen time as he can get!

shame but of course the reporter is going to choose fans who “didn’t get it”

that makes me sad but i totally respect her choices. i just wish she could have come back to dh for like 3 days to shoot one scene as trelawney.

Oh who cares, really? If the woman doesn’t want to be in “Potter,” she doesn’t deserve to be in it. Her relevancy to the final film is minimal (roughly comparable to the appeal of the Nanny McPhee movies to anyone over 6).

Well, if she goes ahead and says all sorts of rude stuff about not being interested, how does she think she won’t be upsetting the fans? Honestly, how could you not be offended by her previous comments?

as Samwise says on page 3 of the comments, Trelawny’s part in DH is nowhere near as important as those of Sprout and Flitwick. (Unfortunately, as Flitwick has been reduced to a music teacher in the films I don’t hold out hope for his character being in it either!)

Personally, I thought the crystal ball throwing a pretty ridiculous part of the battle scene and I won’t miss its not being in the last film. It’s more of a pity that she won’t be in HBP where there is more important stuff for her to do. I wonder how Harry is going to find out about Snape’s part in the prophesy without her.

It will be sad that Emma Thompson won’t be able to make it back to film the final Harry Potters. A good replacement who looks a lot like Emma, is Caroline Goodall (played Mandy Moore’s mom in Chasing Liberty). I just hope the people who recast Professor Trelawney doesn’t pick someone who looks completely different, like they did with Dumbledore.

How very arrogant those comments are. I remember her being a good Trelawny, but her attitude seems to dismiss Harry Potter as something she would not deign to act in.

why are some people taking this so seriously, like it’s a major upheaval of the world? calm it down, rabid fans.

geez, fandom is worse than the paparazzi.

As much as I adore her I’m just glad she’s working on a project she’s so passionate. I love her as Trelawney and wasn’t too keen on Nanny McPhee (it was fun but not great) but I admire her greatly as a person and an actress and just want her happy. The HP films disappoint me a lot and subplots and smaller characters such as Trelawney are usually sidelined for additional material usually totally unrelated (Kloves trying for a childish gag or mush usually) so I doubt they’d have done a lot with her even if it had been her choice to return and by the sound of it she wasn’t written into it anyway.