Emma is so sweet
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I want to see the Hermione/Lavendar scene now! As well as the Ron/Quidditch scenes too! Both Dan and now Emma have commented on it. I bet Rupert'll say they were his favourite scenes to film!

I LOVED IT!
YAY FOR
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Encouraging interview from Emma. I do hope that it's not tooooo adapted. ^___^

Those Lavender/Hermione scene's are gonna be EPIC.

Do you think the fans of the book will find "Half-Blood Prince" to be a faithful adaptation?
WATSON: I hope so. I think we've stuck as close as we possibly can without making a ten-hour movie. We've never had that complaint before, and I personally am such a big fan of the books. I've read them each of them three or four times so I think that's a really good focus for us.

Hang on, did she work on the same movie that we read about, with the characters and story lines and plot points chopped away?

I like Emma's politeness about the director.

Personally, I don't really like him. There are many little things he overlooks completely about the characters, like Harry's hair.

Awesomeness, she is always a sweet girl...

amen!

Hahah. I loved seeing the canaries in one of the trailers. I agree the Hermione/Lavender part of the story will be good. It must have been fun for her to play such a girly girl after the last five movies.

Love her!!! Three more months to see her and Lavendar fight over RON!

Aww, Ron's Quidditch scene is her most memorable time from the HBP set XD

great interview

The Hermione/Lavender scene should be quite interesting.

Great interview! She's the second one to mention the Quidditch tryouts scene...I really want to see it!!!! But Emma has always been my Hermione, since the beginning. You can tell she really loves the series as a whole and does her best to bring the character to life. I can't wait to see what she does in the future, whether it's acting or not.

I could do everything for a different ending of the DH book....I want to see that girl fight but its actually sad....all we can get is jealousy....did somebody noticed that Emma didnt actually said "love" between Ron and Hermione?......

It's interesting

"There's this great scene where Hermione and Lavender are fighting over Ron, and we had a bit of fun with that."

"It's leaked in the beginning of the film that Hermione and Ron are finally going to get it together"

Haha...that's freaking AWESOME!

I'm beyond excited!

That's been a complaint since the very beginning.

I don't see Lavender as 'mean' tbh.

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'WATSON: I hope so. I think we've stuck as close as we possibly can without making a ten-hour movie. We've never had that complaint before,....'

WHAT? That can't be true! That doesn't even apply to HBP on its own, never mind across the entire series. I'm better than some at accepting that things have to be dropped, but they're frequently replaced by new scenes that add nothing but confusion and cliches.

For example, things like Harry flirting with the waitress in this film. I'm not complaining because the scene is new, (much), but because we don't see Harry behaving like that in the books. Ever. If they want that scene, why not just have him waiting and secretly reading a Wizarding Paper with one of those whirling headlines they overuse? They won't save one microsecond of time with out of character behaviour. The 'we can't film everything' excuse, is totally irrelevant in these situations.

Also, when Emma reads the books, does she not see the discrepancies between her generic, two-dimensional Hollywood Hermione and the three-dimensional book Hermione? I'm not talking about the different appearance (well, not this very moment) but the fact she comes across as a different, far less complex person. Not even on the third reading?

Film Ron is barely two-dimensional, just a collection of reaction shots (shame, because Rupert's a good actor) and dull prat-falls. In the book, his humour is witty, in the films it's slap-stick and far less funny. Think "I am the chosen one" for the scriptwriter's idea of amusing. I mean, even before you'd seen it too many times in various trailers.

Harry has escaped much of this character change for the most part, but the leering at Romilda the above scene, fits in 'nicely' with this waitress flirtation. Dumbledore has probably been mentioned before....

I don't think Emma knows what many fans of the book really think of the films, not if she can come out with that comment . She obviously doesn't read the forums on sites like this.

I absolutely agree. How can Emma say that they've stayed as close as possible to the canon without shooting a long movie. That is bologna! Not to mention I would much rather see a 3.5 hr. long movie that was closer to the canon of the books. Whatever! I'm tired of these movies. I guess I'm just going to have to wait until someone else redoes the movie series. Hopefully it's in my lifetime

Lavender in the book isn't the mean girl at all!
She's the girly, popular one who knows what she wants & gets it.
Spoilt? possibly, who knows..
Mean, no...

I guess they didn't see anything wrong with changing a minor characters personality to make the whole love/hate triangle more interesting..

That's just completely my opinion though

Totally agree with you....Lavender is NOT mean....she is giggly and immature, maybe, but not mean or vicious.

I agree.Shes not mean but people say that couse shes with Ron -_- and I noticed that their relationship is working very well! Hermione is a bookworm,shes too serious for Ron who is kinda silly but witted.Lavender likes to talk a lot and shes cheerful! They should stay together! Hermione should be with Harry.She likes inteligent and brave guys and she realy cares for him and Harry cares for Hermione.I know that people are saying " but they're like brother and sister!" THATS RIGHT.A great friendship is a beginning of a serious relationship and a true love!

Hey They have time constraints and have to "chop" certain scenes for it to work. Like I say every time I see these comments, they gotta do what they gotta do. For example the Battle of Hogwarts: they had to make a choice because there are two battles at Hogwarts and they cannot keep them both, for this movie they decided to move that pivital scene to the Burrow so we don't have a conflict of interest. I mean I would love to see both battles take place at the school, but you can't please everyone. And that is my opinion on the subject.