Love the angry Snape pic <3

There needs to be a SPOILER warning on this.

^Agreed.

Also, I've read the spoilers for the second half and didn't see this anywhere...

??? He did? what?

No, Severus did not teach Voldemort his spell. He wouldn't have to; he didn't teach Harry, yet Harry was able to use it quite well on Draco in HBP. Severus and Voldemort have a history together; I'm sure he saw Severus use the spell on someone at least once in all those years. Harry only read about the spell in Sev's old potions book and he was able to use it.

Another of Yates' funny ideas to avoid Nagini ? What about the symbolism of the snake used to kill the Head of the Snake House ? Apparently they will avoid the Shrieking Shack - grrrr... - and now, this ?

No, we're not avoiding the snake...

Well..Yates is disgusting....he loves to abuse Snape..
Does he dislike or hate Alan Rickman?Probably not ,but i really wonder why he cut many scenes on Snape & change the original Snape plot and makes everybody hate Severus Snape !
i just couldn't go to sleep when i heard the news of the trade-show
,it freaks me up...> <.Snape died a pathetic death...i really don't like the "Sectumsempra+Nagini"way for snape.:( It's unfair, unfair...Ummmmm...can't express more..it's the thing that only snape fans understand..
Ha!i should say something brighter..I hope Snape will show us his best performance in July!

Ecco, lo sapevo! lo sapevo che Yates sarebbe riuscito a manomettere anche la morte di Snape! ma dico io,lo ha letto o non lo ha letto il libro sto deficiente?

We can't blame Yates for all of the changes. Rowling approved them, remember. I've read the spoiler in question, LeakyCauldron had it up as part of their spoiler blog; it was in their "bullet point breakdown" of the details, and that was the part that WB asked them to take it down. It won't be pretty, but over all it's more for dramatic effect. Apparently Nagini hits him more than once, but that bit of info has been floating around on line for a while now.

Yeah, I'm back to being a bit...um...sick to my stomach about all of this. I listened to the new edition of Mugglecast last night. There's quite a lot of details from the final battle we're not going to get to see, and I'm not surprised that we don't. I'm PISSED, but not surprised.

What I do want to say is that honestly, at least I feel this way right now, we shouldn't harsh too much on Yates. Everything I have heard and read about The Prince's Tale indicate that it's going to be spec-fking-tacular. It's been described as the finest moments in the entire series, and brought grown men on the set to tears. We should all be grateful we even get it, because if they had "done Deathly Hallows as a single film, The Prince's Tale would have been cut." That's from David Hayman himself. So I know there's certain details in the book that were dear to me but if I'm trading them for The Prince's Tale, I'm alright with it. And as for his "death"?





Come now, Ladies. We all know he isn't REALLY dead. Right?

^Haha! That is true ;)

I take most of the spoilers with a grain of salt. Not in a 'they might not happen' way, but in a 'I'm happy/not happy' way. JK approved the changes, but she also approved changes in the past movies that I didn't like. I won't know until I see it.

The only thing I'm not worried about is Alan's performance.

You always hit it spot on, bri-marie. :D

I want to add two things.

1) Helen McCrory (Narcissa) said that there were four endings shot for the Malfoy family, but if they use the one I heard last night it's not going to make any fking sense.

2) Here's a bit of funny. Four months ago I got a spoiler that said Gregory Goyle dies in the Room of Requirement scene, instead of Vincent Crabbe, as in the book. I was pissed. I know why now. Jamie Waylett, who played Crabbe, was arrested on drug charges. So Goyle (Josh Herdman) gets to die. I laughed at the image that stuck in my head: "Hey Goyle, your buddy's in da slammah, you gonna die." Louis Cordice, who plays Blaise Zabini, gets some extra screen time here.

I know the film makers and probably Rowling herself wish we'd stop bitching about changes and whatnot, but we bitch because it means so much to us. If we stop bitching, we stop caring, and she/they stop making money. Funny how that works. :p

I couldn't agree with you more, BlackHound...

Reading your comments makes me nervous guys! I'm already deeply depressed by the change from Shrieking Shack to a fricking boat house, this doesn't make me feel better at all. I'm cheering myself up with the knowledge that Prince's Tale is said to be amazing (though the comment about it not being there if DH were made into one movie pissed me off) and I hope that'll be enough to last me till July.

Yeah, I wasn't happy about it either. But it was important to them to present The Prince's Tale and to give Alan his chance to really shine, so we got DH in two parts. Hayman's statement I've seen in print, and it was also in the Mugglecast I listened to last night. Kinda made my stomach roll, right along with the description of something else that set my teeth on edge.

But there are some great things we DO get to see, in addition to Alan's stunning preformance.


I don't know if this'll make anyone laugh, but since I feel bad now, I'll share something that made me giggle like an idiot. I saw a short "series wrap" interview with Tom Felton, and he was asked the same question that Dan was, that being, "if they remake the Harry Potter series 30 years from now, which character would you want to play?" Tom said, "Dan could play Snape, and I could play Dumbledore!" He's such a neat guy...Dan, though, said he could never play Snape, because in his mind, the only Snape is Alan. He said he would like to play Sirius, if they did do a remake. I'd like to see that myself. Maybe we could get Rupert and Bonnie back as Arthur and Molly, and Emma back as Minerva. :p :))

Haha, that would be hilarious :) And Dan is right, there's only one Snape and that's Alan Rickman.

And I'm curious about what set your teeth on edge. Mind dropping me a PM? I'm such a spoiler whore :P

^Done. :D

Agreed with blackhound...xD Its just a movie; we're only angered that Severus is angered that they keep switching his character's death around u___u

I just about fell over when I read the comments about The Prince's Tale not being included if DH were only one movie. I don't generally follow the HP sites that have this info, but I should!

Over winter break, my sister was speculating on whether DH2 would contain The Prince's Tale. I was outraged by the mere notion that it wouldn't be included, but I guess her reasoning was that so many of Snape's other scenes were omitted in the movies--such as, as many of you have noted, no Snape teaching DADA in HBP.

Anyway, I half-dread watching DH2 b/c of all the talk of what a wrenching performance we'll see.

Well, if it had been a single film, it would have been cut for time. I had a similar issue with Return of the King, regarding Saruman's death being reworked in favor of an extended backstory on how Smeagol became Gollum. I was furious at first that some of Christopher Lee's best moments ended up on the cutting room floor, but in the end, I was alright with it. Mostly.

I'm probably off the mark here, but I think that there has been so much reaction from Snape's fandom that they had to give us (well, and Alan too) these priceless moments. Rowling said that he was a gift of a character to write; for us he's a gift too, to watch, to love, to admire and respect, to lust after, and we demand he be given what is due him. I think they realized that they couldn't afford to fail Snape's fans. They'd lose way too much money in the long run.

^^^ well said my friend, well said. He definitely needs to have his shining moment, especially since he's such an important part of the story, even if he's working from behind the curtain. Not to mention Alan/Snape fans would go ballistic if Prince's Tale wasn't in the movie :P