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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Any of you who have read the Harry Potter books (more than once) know that J.K. Rowling does an amazing job at dropping hints and small suggestions that are usually not that small. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince we are quickly introduced to the Muggle side of the story, with an opening greeting to England's Prime Minister.
With a wizard war raging, it is impossible for the Muggle community to not feel the effects from that. To make this point known, producer David Barron discussed the addition of some new content to the upcoming film.
Half-Blood Prince Talk
While talking with Australia's Herald Sun, reposted at SnitchSeeker, Barron admits that a new burrow scene had been added to Half-Blood Prince.
"But this was brought in because Jo (Rowling) was able throughout the quite lengthy book to keep dropping little snippets of what was happening in the outside world - there'd be people reading newspapers and talking about how somebody's parents had been killed, or somebody had been withdrawn from school because their parents didn't think it was safe.
And we're making aware that the Muggle world is also experiencing these disasters, but thinks they are disasters rather than the work of Voldemort.
The book is peppered with those moments, but we couldn't do that quite so easily in the film.
So (the extra scene) comes in the middle of the film and it just reminds us the world is no longer a safe place. Even in what would normally be considered the safe haven of the Burrow, nobody's safe.
I think you'll like it. It's quite effective."
Like it? I love it! While you're at it, how about we continue dropping hints that Ginny Weasley is a super-powerful witch? The seventh-born usually is...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens to theaters November 21st, 2008.
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