PS. I was talking about the Secumsemptra scene. Hollywood can easily delete that without spoiling a film of Book 6, plotwise. And they can change a spell that people like Sirius die from forFilm 5. But if Jo has people die in particularily gruesome magical ways, esp someone like Snape (I have some idea what might be going on with the graphic Snape scene you printed? Let's hope it's not true--Snape might be a jerk bit there are less horrible ways to die! and if this is his way of repentance there should be less painful ways!) How could Hollywood omit-change something like that??
Come to think of it, if even half the rumors on the sheer numbers of deaths are true, they won't be able to tone down Film 7 at all as the filmmkers have spent the last 3 films getting audiences to know these characters and to skip over their stories in 7 would make no cinematic sense! Deaths of characters that have gotten lots of screen time, even in one film, is not somthing you can skip over and if they all die in different ways in different chapters it'll be difficult to, say, rewrite the plot to have them all safely blasted away in one big battle , to lessen the imapact for the kiddies. Not only would you have to rewite the whole book,which would be VERY difficult, I'm guessing, but Jo would be pissed, not to mention the fans. They'll have to do it very similar to the way Jo has them die. Esp if they are knocked off b/c of the various ways they are magical threats to Voldy's plan.
It'll be interesting to guage Warner Bros.'s reaction... Even though I haven't read it of course, yet, if even half the chapter titles are true, Book 7 sounds like a bloody SHAKESPEAREAN EPIC and they'll have to make it 5 times as dramatic as Film 5. Film 7 will have to be a drama and not a Return of the Jedi flick--though ROTJ is great.
In fact, DH is sounding like it's a lot darker than even Return of the King. Face it, in ROTK, the worst things that happen are Frodo is tortured (but that was SIGNIFIGANTLY toned down in Jackson's film--not to mention in the book he was naked in that Tower scene--there was lots of fun on the Net wishing Elijah Wood would be seen naked in that scene, with maybe a strategically placed orc in the foreground, but alas, no go!
), Sam is tempted by the Ring (again, Jackson changed this for the film), the battle of Minas Tirith where Merry was wounded, Theoden dies, (this was a long and downright gory scene in the book that gave me the willies wheh I first read it, but again, Jackson toned it WAAAY down) and Frodo passes gracefully to the Grey Havens. Of course Frodo's and Aragorn and Arwen's stories are sad but I'm talking violence, death and gore. And oh yeah, Gollum bites off Frodo's finger and falls into the molten pit of Orodruin (Mount Doom) .
But other than a couple of deaths and the sad but beautiful stuff, ROTK wasn't TOO Bad. But this? If the rumors are true, this is going to be like freaking WWII of the wizarding world. HOW will they tone this down???