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12-06-2007, 12:07 AM
| | No Prime Minister, Gaunts or Hepzibah Smith in Half-Blood Prince
As with every Harry Potter adaptation, given the size of the books, some subplots have to be sacrificed in order to transfer the story to the screen. Half-Blood Prince is no different.
W.B. have confirmed that the following will not be present in the sixth film;
- Muggle Prime Minister
- The Gaunts
- Hepzibah Smith
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12-06-2007, 05:47 AM
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| Sphinx
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: GMT +8
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Nikolai Vannacutt | Nabs!Ama | | The Happy Hufflepuff No Gaunts?
I'm losing interest in this movie. |
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12-06-2007, 06:10 AM
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| Billywig
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Vienna, Austria
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I always thought that the HAD to keep the Gaunts and Hepzibah in. I wonder how they'll do the Horcruxes now ...
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12-06-2007, 06:26 AM
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| Puffskein
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Forest of Dean
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Oh ok....nothing we can do bout it......
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12-06-2007, 08:14 AM
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| Dugbog
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Dancing with Care Bears!
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Aurora Dolohov Sixth | How can they not put in the Gaunts? Doesn't that throw off the whole plot? Gah!!! How disappointing. |
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12-06-2007, 08:52 AM
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| Home of the Aussie Nogtail
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No Gaunts? Nope. Not gonna work. With David Yates, he always cuts out the interesting, informative and somewhat essential subplots.
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12-06-2007, 09:12 AM
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| Imp
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: diagon ally
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Ariana Sixth | No Gaunts or Smith, Thats a disgrace it really is and i cant understand why JK have agreed to this as they both have a very importent roles in the movie.
Like why bring Cho back when she is not even a big role in the book. They seem to do stuff back word's ie. bring back small character and leave out big ones. There going to slaughter the book cutting it down.
Just imagine the 7th flim the whloe book will be cut out.
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12-06-2007, 09:20 AM
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| Firecrab
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: On My Own Bubble :-)
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First Year | No Gaunts?! It was a very importent part in the book! I can't believe they're cutting it. |
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12-06-2007, 10:26 AM
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| Blast-Ended Skrewt
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: scotland, the counry
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| Keeper of Mr Tennant's specs Quote:
Originally Posted by hpfan4eva WHAT?!?! ARRRGH...the movies gonna be HORRRRIBLE! urgh that makes mee SO MAD! They cut a lot of things ot of all the films, like SPEW! Kreacher essentialy in OOTP. However it is a massive book (not as big as ootp) but still large. they cant kep everything in sadly but that dosent make the movie horrible!
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12-06-2007, 10:31 AM
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| Graphorn
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fangtasia.
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Teagan Skye Corliss Fifth Year | Chris Cookie Siriusly In Love Seriously, no Gaunts?
But praise the heavens, Cho Chang is in! I don't know how I would've survived without seeing her in HBP.
This probably is the HP movie I'm least looking forward to. |
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12-06-2007, 10:46 AM
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| Puffskein
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: HERE
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what??!!! YOUR KIDDING ME!!! I had already imagined in my head what they would look like...god...i was looking forward to them so bad..
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12-06-2007, 11:49 AM
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| Ashwinder
Join Date: May 2004 Location: USA
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| Ultimate Potterite Original original WHOA! I mean, I could understand the Prime Minister because he's not so important to the plot. But no Gaunts or Hepzibah Smith? How are they going to explain Voldemort's family history then? Where is he going to get the Gaunt's ring from? And what about Hepzibah? Where's he going to get the cup and locket? They're really messing this up already! I'm so frustrated with this. The Gaunts and Smith especially showed how evil Voldemort was in his adolescence as well...taking them away will ruin the plot. I'm upset. |
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12-06-2007, 12:01 PM
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| Keeper of the G/H snog Puffskein
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This is not fair...The GAUNTS are out. How??? they are so important as through them we can see Voldemort's family?? I don't agree..May be for Prime Minister and Smith, I can go with it but for Gaunts
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12-06-2007, 12:16 PM
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| Puffskein
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How they gonna start the film then if the prime minister isnt in it and the gaunts a vital bit to the plot so thats just stupid x
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12-06-2007, 12:35 PM
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| Crup
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^ I think Spinner's End is a better starting point anyway. The two ministers would be a boring way to open a film.
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12-06-2007, 12:49 PM
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| Pygmy Puff
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In a pineapple. <3
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Emerson Gray. Fourth Year | G1GGL3R! *giggles* My GarBear Aww, no Gaunts? But they were pretty important, weren't they? |
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12-06-2007, 01:25 PM
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| Puffskein
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What about the twins? are they gonna be in it?
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12-06-2007, 02:48 PM
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| Mackled Malaclaw
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Nooooooo! That's horrible |
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12-06-2007, 04:01 PM
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| SS Featured Author Snidget
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I understand the Prime Minister and Hepzibah being absent. If anything, Hepzibah can be simply mentioned, and the Prime Minister bit, as interesting as that chapter was, is not that important.
THE GAUNTS are missing? That upsets me. Is the orphanage the only scene we're going to see of Voldemort's past. I wouldn't put it past them to cut Slughorn's memory and Voldemort returning to Hogwarts. I'm upset. I don't know how they justify it, to be honest.
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12-06-2007, 05:22 PM
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| Chizpurfle
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Wherever
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Bethany Marie Dumont Magical Law Enforcement | Ok somebody at WB needs to be slapped! OBVIOUSLY somebody in their little writers department never read the book! I mean come on how can you tell the story of Voldemort's life, his early childhood and how he became a Parselmouth without the Gaunts! You can't tell the story without Voldemort's mummy! You just cant! And how the h-e-double hockeysticks are they going to do the whole Horcrux thing without them and Ms. Smith anyway???? I swear WB needs to be slapped! I'll be glad when in the future someone decides to do a remake and tells the story right!
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12-06-2007, 07:29 PM
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| Crup
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Marcella Riddle Graduated | Kaplinski Rival Sorting Hat Machine Quote:
What about the twins? are they gonna be in it?
I'm not sure.
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12-06-2007, 08:47 PM
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| Romanian Longhorn
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I just cannot believe they're taking out these characters. If this keeps on, then soon enough they'll cut out Voldemort's story from the plot! *snorts* Or even find a way to not include the Horcruxes
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12-06-2007, 09:21 PM
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| Plimpy
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: In the TARDIS
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| I can't see how it can work without the Gaunts. Hepzibah is relatively important, but I can see how they can get around that, they shouldn't have cut the Gaunts though. |
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12-06-2007, 10:41 PM
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| Chizpurfle
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Thats a shame. I so thought that they would need the Gaunts to be in it.
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12-07-2007, 01:52 AM
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| Puffskein
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Pompano Beach, FL
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how can the gaunts and hephzibah smith not be in this movie? they are important coz of the things. omg!!!
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12-07-2007, 02:25 AM
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| Puffskein
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wherever Snape is!
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I'd say we start a petition, but those of us who signed the "Cast Jason Carter as Sirius Black" petition know how well THAT went. This quote I found online sums it all up for me personally:
They better do a tremendous job of fixing their little tinkering here or I'm going to be royally ticked with Rowling too for letting them turn this film into a "rom com" when it seriously is NOT. After DH, it's the darkest in the series and has some of the most important and substantial themes, and making it all fall into place just for the Trio's skipping along merrily love moments is not the way to go. And sorry to that one guy who was reporting this already. It seemed like such a far-fetched thing. But now hats off to him for reporting it early and being just as peeved as we are now that it's official. Uggghhh!!! What are they thinking?!! It better be really long and make up for it with other roles. If Snape has only six scenes and a total of twelves minutes and it's all boiled down, I might shoot someone at WB.
Couldn't have put it better myself. And I agree with everyone who has made comments about CHO being back, but not these fairly essential characters, and I agree with whizzybubbles for what she said about David Yates, AND I especially agree with Dan when he said he'll miss being broody. It seems the audience will have to miss it too.
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