OMG IM SO HAPPY!!! that's on my birthday too, so yay! i also love luna with all of my heart, and hope they don't cut any of her

Excellent, the wedding scene I was looking forward to, because lots of characters come back. I hope they include a lot of them!

WoW! I am excited to see how the wedding looks like.

that is one of my fav parts in DH, so im glad that they kept it in

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David Heyman confirmed the wedding will take place at the Burrow when I interviewed him.

You can read the entire interview here.

Exactcly. Both of you have it right. It truly made things more dramatic. Those who were bothered by the destruction of the Burrow in the film seem to miss how that scene added dramatically to the film. For Harry, the Burrow was a real home unlike with the Dursleys. And it's true that Death Eater members like Bellatrix Lestrange loathe the Weasleys. Well, if you are as insane as Mrs. Bella Lestrange, then the idea of burning down the house of a family of dubbed "blood traitors" would certainly be amusing.

Well they got something right.

Love that scence,so glad they kept it! cant wait for DH!! hopefully they dont cut out as much as they did in HBP though.

cool love the wedding bit DH is going to rock

Yaaaaaaay!
That's going to be great!

I agree!

Oww it's a great news !! I'm so excited !!

Honestly, you're far from being on your own.

It's basic film language; showing instead of telling. Books can get away with exposition, moreso than movies. Which is why I hope that scene with Neville, in DH, where he's guiding the trio, doesn't just include him telling them what they've been up to. They should show Ginny, Luna and Neville's shenanigans in a montage, at the very least, especially with two films to fill!

i'm glad that there is wedding scene , so excited for the 7th movie

I really hope it's going to be at the Burrow! I just can't wait for the movie anymore!

So Awesome!! I hope we get some pictures! I have a feeling it's going to be a GORGEOUS wedding. The set design people always do an amazing job when it comes to designing sets!

So cool!!!!

And it's definitely going to be at the Burrow! I mean they're wizards...they can rebuild a house with a simple flick of their wand.

Arrrgghhhhhh!
We get to see the wedding,we get to see the wedding!!

I'm looking forward to seeing Xeno and Luna's outfits.

Sorry, I have to disagree (there's always one!) I'm not about to shout though - everyone sees things differently. I felt that the scene was poor for several reasons.

1. For an action scene, it had no action. Harry, then Ginny ran towards the Death Eaters. There was some running through the long grass. Ginny was disarmed and Harry jumped in. Flashing lights and shakycam were followed by a shot of the Order etc standing in a circle wands pointing out, but at who? There were no duels worth mentioning - it was dull to watch.

Why not have Greyback go for Ginny's temptingly exposed throat and Harry really have to fight him off? Why not have the already stressed Remus completely lose it? He obviously hates Greyback. Nope, the Death Eaters turned away and burnt down the Burrow instead of trying to kill the occupants. Not as shocking as you'd hope from cold blooded murderers. In fact, they should have waited an hour till the lights were out, indicating the family were asleep, then just set fire to it (and them). Why on earth mess about with a ring around the Burrow which looked cool, but ensured that everyone had time to get out safely? If you can fly, don't run through the grass! If the Burrow is so easy to access all of a sudden, why not KILL Harry's closest family substitutes - getting Harry himself would be a bonus - instead of a silly warning shot? The Wizarding World would have really been in trouble if they had done that. Sorry their behaviour wasn't menacing at all!

2. As you said, they could rebuild the Burrow with magic in time for the wedding, so why NO attempts to put out the fire with magic while it was still burning? Why no attempts to summon key possessions? Or their brooms to at least try to use some water spells from above? (Aren't the brooms kept outside?) OK, the Weasleys were in shock, but Remus has bad times every month and Tonks is an Auror. They could surely try to salvage the situation, and help the Weasleys to snap out of their shock and join in.

3. Maybe worst of all, no-one ever mentioned it ever again. Ron and Ginny were fine afterwards, no sign of depression or shock. How can you grieve for someone when they're not in the slightest bit distraught? It was badly concieved and carried out.

4. The film was quite slow - having dull action in the middle wasn't the answer. A big finale with a betrayal, action, a revelation and a funeral would have made up for the rest of the film - building to a climax is nothing new. Instead it just fizzled to a close. An anti-climax is not a good idea for a film, if there's been no real action since the beginning of the 2.5 hours, then it's really bad.

5. They can't put everything that's in the book in the film, but please don't try to 'improve' the story with sub-par additions. Yates said he didn't want two battles at Hogwarts in subsequent films. Other franchises have had similar battles in more than one film, so can HP. The battle at the end of DH would be a lot bigger with a far bigger range of people fighting. He could have used different venues in the castle. Instead he used the idea of an attack on the Burrow, which is also in DH - except it'll be in the first DH film so we'll see it a lot sooner, unlike the final Battle of Hogwarts which will be in the second film.

Woot Woot!

A scene was scripted, though IDK if it was shot, where Greyback paws over Ginny, going on about how she smells and Harry rescues her, much like in the video game. I can only think they thought it too creepy to keep in.

In terms of menace, that criticism also applies to the books - like how they always wait until the end of the school year to really go for it.

That would've lessened the impact. The whole point was that they were constantly under the threat of danger and everything could be ruined in a heartbeat. Fixing it in the next moment would've undone that.

"That would've lessened the impact. The whole point was that they were constantly under the threat of danger and everything could be ruined in a heartbeat. Fixing it in the next moment would've undone that."

I do get your point EmmaRiddle, and you're right about the effect that fixing it on the spot would have had. However what I meant was that if they really wanted to show that they were under constant threat of danger, it should be illustrated with something that couldn't be easily fixed. My friend asked why they didn't try to put the fire out as we watched the film. Their standing around not trying to fix things, wasn't as effective as a situation where there's genuinely no way of fixing things.

Say Bill was in this film - if he'd been mauled by Greyback, as in the book, the audience would know that Ron's brother might be a werewolf and there was nothing anyone could do, no matter how magical. They'd just have to wait, totally powerless. That this young man with everything to live for had had his life permanently changed in one moment would be far more moving. Especially as the best case scenario was that his good looking face was now seriously scarred. That was the sort of example that would really have demonstrated how something could be permanently ruined in a heartbeat, not something that can be easily fixed by magic - and probably will be unless Bill and Fleur get married by a smoking ruin!

I just don't think this scene demonstrated the dangers of war in the way they meant it to. Destruction of property/things is easily rectified in this world, so it had less of an impact - especially as it was immediately forgotten. If George had lost his ear here, it could have made a difference - the twins would never be identical again, after one shock event, it would be a permanent reminder. Sadly they decided to skip using a valid piece of canon to add weight to their rather average invention.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree though, this scene is quite polarizing!

omg this is so exciting!! I can't wait to see pics and/or videos from the set!!
To HannahLongbtottom, I totally agree with you about the scene, I guess I didn't see it before. And, yeh, they are wizards and they can rebiuld, so it didn't really mess up DH at all, but the emotional and dramatic effect was perfect. Thanks!

Amen, Amen, Amen, AMen, Amen, A THOUSAND TIMES AMEN!

I find it quite strange that in the 4th film Fleur was at school and Ron asked her to the dance and now three years later shes getting married to Bill, Rons older brother.