>VERBOSE

Sequel to "Severus Snape and the Marauders" from a couple of years ago.

Better or worse American accent than in Gracepoint? I can't decide. Either way it gives me the heebie-jeebies. As some commenters remark, you can still hear Scottish peeking through, just like in Gracepoint. It's like the uncanny valley of accents. And also like with Gracepoint, I find myself whispering "ohgoddavidpleasestoptalking", which is not something one says under many circumstances!

So, y'all* get a load of this? http://www.snitchseeker.com/harry-potter-news/video-j-k-rowling-admits-deathly-hallows-draft-had-snape-vs-harry-not-mcgonagall-86207/

I don’t like the marginalisation of women when the fighting breaks out. We get to fight too. I really wanted that. In fact, there was an earlier draft... I know there was at one point, it was Harry who took on Snape in that confrontation, and I really didn't want that to happen.

In the book Minerva McGonagall was the one who does it, and for me it was very important that she did that.

I agree very much that the women characters ought to fight as well and I think everyone reading this probably enjoyed seeing what a badass Minerva was, but on the other hand I've got to wonder what we'd have got if it had stayed Harry on the other end of that duel. (One hopes it would have been more than a repeat of the end of HBP where Severus hands the kid his arse on a platter!) It's not as simple as just the change in meaning from it being a female instead of a male; it being Harry (as opposed to another male teacher, like Flitwick) would have changed the whole ensuing action considerably.

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* I settled on just the pronoun here because I was getting way too caught up on how I might spell the mushed up contraction of "did you all" that I was actually thinking: j'y'all? d'j'y'all? djy'all?

A series of on-set interviews with cast and crew have been released; see http://dhmoviepics.livejournal.com/112160.html for a full list. Alan Rickman's may be interesting to Snapefen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJqejvcpJQw Interesting quotes and choices of words about Snape, such as "[playing the role is] not so much what you choose to do as not disobeying it", "concentrated", "solitary existence", something about him generally being soft-spoken, and "he's only got one set of clothes, clearly, which last quite well" (*chuckles*).