THE CURIOSITY OF ANTON

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Cross posted @ http://community.livejournal.com/harry_potter/4585135.html

WARNING: This entry may contain a bit of Deathly Hallows spoilers for The Prince's Tale so if you have not read the final book of the Harry Potter series, please proceed with caution.

Out of the entire much anticipated Deathly Hallows, the scene I am probably most eager to see is The Prince's Tale, however, it is only a matter of whether or not WB or David Yates in that respect will let Alan Rickman do his stuff, especially in one of the most treacherous scenes where we probably see for the first time of Snape's real torment:

The hilltop faded, and Harry stood in Dumbledore’s office, and something was making a terrible sound, like a wounded animal. Snape was slumped forward in a chair and Dumbledore was standing over him, looking grim. After a moment or two, Snape raised his face, and he looked like a man who had lived a hundred years of misery since leaving the wild hilltop...''I wish...I wish I were dead...'' (DH, pgs. 357-358. PDF format.)

The two most important aspects of this scene is that Snape is supposed to be ''making a terrible sound, like a wounded animal'' whilst his face is supposed to give off the impression of ''a man who had lived a hundred years of misery'' hence Rickman's older age compared to Snape's.

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As read about at this link: http://www.snitchseeker.com/harry-potter-news/live-post-bd-live-half-blood-prince-screening-dan-radcliffe-david-barron-69604/, during the BD-Live screening event of the Half-Blood Prince Blu-Ray DVD with David Barron (acting as a replacement for David Yates due to a flu) and Daniel Radcliffe in which is taking place today, I found this comment they made about Alan Rickman rather funny:

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On Alan Rickman, David said he loved his eyebrows, while Dan loves his dry sense of humour.

Honestly, who CANNOT love this man's eyebrows. *yum*

(First it was David Heyman fan-boying Alan/Snape in the HBO Preview of Half-Blood Prince, and now David Barron?)

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