Its been established here that Tom Felton is coming back to play Draco, which is great news. But I really hope to see much more of Draco Malfoy in the sixth movie HBP than we've seen in the past few films.

He seems to be a highly underated character in OOTP and I'd hate to see the same thing happen in HBP, especially as Harry's obsession with him is extremely engaging in the book.

I was drawn more to the Harry vs Draco storyline than I was to the Tom Riddle pensieve history (though I'm not denying it was the next step in the saga to have Voldemorts history laid bare).

I sincerely hope HBP gives Harry's schoolyard nemesis the importance he deserves. After all, the majority of people who love the books because they care about Harry, are going to want to see Draco, the person they love to hate, struggle with his ill-fated mission.

I don't think I'm alone in admitting that by the end of HBP, I began to care for Draco far more than I thought possible. Jk seemed to take the character beyond what many of us expected.

I think Malfoy will be in this film quite a lot,

his story line is one of the major two from the book and he does and says a lot more in book six than any of the other books and of course he will get a big scene near the end.....

I think it would be very difficult to make a film that is similar to the book, without a large part for Malfoy

Yep. Plus Tom Felton plays Malfoy perfectly and has done since film one!
It would only be fair to him, the character and the books that there is plenty of Draco coverage!
The whole Draco thing in that book, especially him crying in the bathroom has GOT to be in, I can't wait!

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I agree, Draco definately needs to be in HBP. However, as much as I want to see the crying scene, and the Sectumsempra being used by harry, I think that might be one of the scenes that become 'choppy' and hard to understand. I guess it would be really hard for Tom Felton to not have more lines in this movie than the rest of the movies, because this one really focuses on Draco.

Yeah...I think the scene is really important. It shows just how evil this Half-Blood Prince fellow is (since at that point in the book we don't really know anything about him yet aside from the fact that he rocks at potion-making), and how vunerable Draco Malfoy is. And I really do fear that they'll get it all chopped up and rushy so that it's hard to fallow. If they don't give Felton that many scenes then he'll suddenly be up at the tower explaining everything and everyone who hasn't read the books will be all 'Woah! I didn't think he was THAT evil!'

I think that Draco Malfoy will be in this movie more than he has been in the others because of the whole Voldemorts task for him thing. Plus Harry is obsessed with finding out what hes up to, so I just think he'll be in this one alot.

A little bit of sympathy for Draco will go along way...
do you think they'll keep sectumsempra?? They may have to change the age rating??

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I think Draco will get more screen time in the Half blood Prince.. He deserves it as most of the plot involves him. Because he starts all this off like a chain of events. It would be silly not to include Tom - Draco in it alot. Because i his character is essintal to the Half Blood Prince because it's the first time you really sympathise with him. As he would not have killed DD.
So i hope that Tom Felton will appear more in it. Because like has been said hardly anytime in OOTP.

I hadn't really considered that before, but yeah.. I guess the sectumsempra scene does contain rather a lot of blood in the book.

Hmm, that's worrying.

I don't know. I guess I have faith in Yates to deliver something the majority of us will be happy with - he did with OOTP.

The sectumsempra scene in the book is, I think, Draco's biggest and best scene. I'm hoping that's how it is in the movie as well.

Tom Felton is great at playing Draco. He has been right from number one. I have no doubt that he'll do fantastic on this one too. The emotional scene ... that'll be interesting to see how he does that because it is one of the harder things to do in acting. It'll break my heart, that goes without saying. Haha.

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Draco DEFINATELY needs more screen time.

He is extremely important in the 6th book.

He barely had screen time in the 5th movie.

Even though he didn't have a major role in the 1st through 5th book, they should show the hatred between Harry and Draco.

That is key in the 6th book because it shows why harry is so suspicious of him.

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I'm really hoping that Draco gets plenty of screentime in Half-Blood Prince, otherwise I'll be extremely upset. I'm only looking forward to this movie because of the large roll that Draco plays, the book is great but I find that it gets a bit dull and Harry's obession for Draco spiced it up a notch.

My biggest fear is that all of Draco's parts will be rushed and choppy - especially the Sectumsempra scene. Also, I never thought of the rating situation...One of the things that this scene is meant to show is how evil the Half-Blood Prince's spells were but I bet it'll be modified to something more suitable for children.

i highly doubt draco malfoy will play a lot in this movie because he is always stuck inside the room of requirements i think he will show up mostly in the end

Malfoy will probably play more roles than other movies, but he would only show up in Diagon Alley and then mostly towards the end.

For the sectumsempra maybe it would be Harry casting the spell then awhile later we heard Draco Malfoy screaming and see blood flow along the floor. This mean we don't have to see the body in the film but we know what happen. The rating won't be really bad in this case, as there are blood flows in the Chamber Of Secrets.

yeah i think that without Malfoy the movie will lose parts of how J.K. intinded it to be, because Harry is obcessed with Malfoy in this movie. He should indeed be more of a part in this movie than what hes usualy been.

To be honest Sectumsempra is a very important subject in HBP and the spell itself is definately not NC-17 or XXX level because I'm a rated R obsessie and I've seen much worse things then things such as the Sectumsempra cursse. If they want to keep the movie PG-13 they must not make it very graphic. If they do, it's rated R material (U.S. ratings of course)
But I hope he plays a huge role in HBP because he's a huge part in the plot of the book.

It is never gonna be rated R as long as they don't make it like Kill Bill.

I think they would probably find a way to make the scene less bloody and milder to fit into atleast PG-15.

In my opinion Harry Potter scene is never going to be rated R.

I'm thinking though that the scene would be filmed away from the body when the sectumsempra is being used, and we saw blood flowing across the floor and hear Draco malfoy screaming and so on. There would be no0 need to see him cover in blood and bleed everywhere.

Draco has a major part in this book, so there is no doubt that he will get more screen time. I feel that he's been taken out much to often these past 3 more movies.

In HBP the character of Draco Malfoy grows from a rich, spoiled, brat,and a bully that he was from book one upto book five to a more emotional and humane person because here he disovered the misery of being the bully instead.
So i think Draco Malfoy will definitely have more exposure here; he is the one that has the task of killing dumbledore and in the book it ended in dumbledore's death.

Draco will have a lot more screen time PERIOD.. and I know why. Every movie they make one of the main plots gigantic, not that thats a bad thing...In the fifth movie they made the Umbridge plot more important than the dreaming, and Sirius plot. So I almost know that they will make the Malfoy plot more bigger than the Learning about Voldy's Past Plot, because Harry obsessing over Malfoy is more interesting in a film version than watching flashback scenes.

yeah he played too small a part in the OoTP, but I think he'll play a much bigger role in HBP because he had such an important job in the book. The directiors cant really ignore how important he was, the bond between him and snape is crucial to developing snape's character.

Not only Draco, but other characters do need more screen time. I came to the conclusion that the screenplay is done in order to highlight Harry, Hermione and Ron. It doesn't matter if other important characters are left behind. This is the impression I have every time I watch a HP movie. I watched all of them several times, and after watching HPOoP, that iswhat I figured out. Minerva, Dumby, Snape and others do need more screen time, and I do hope they do not do with the Half-blood Prince what they did with the fifth movie.

I really hope Draco gets more screen time... I think that they need to give him that, because otherwise everyone who doesn't read the books will be like, huh?

I also hope that they include the crying in the bathroom/sectumsempra scene.

Draco has a major part in this book, so there is no doubt that he will get more screen time. I feel that he's been taken out much to often these past 3 more movies

I think that he was in POA enough, but in GOF he only in the beginning bragging and the he gets turned into a ferret.
then in Ootp he seen on the Hogwarts xpress, and trying to bust the DA

I think Draco will get his largest role out of all the movies so far...simply because he is in one of the main plots.. He is a plot, Harry's obsession to Draco is very important, and the filmakers will make Malfoy as importatant as, let's say Umbridge in OOTP

Oh I do hope Draco will get more screen time! The movies have always seemed to play down his role. I think they'll give him a bigger part, because he is a main character in the book and he has a crucial scene at the end. But, hey, I've always been a Draco/Tom fan, so I'd probably want him to have more screen time even if he didn't have a larger part to play!

I hope Malfoy has a bigger role in HBP, he's a main character in the book, but I'm afraid they will focus on the relationships too much. In the book, Harry is obsessed with what Malfoy is doing, so they should spent a lot of time on it. I really hope they show Malfoy crying in the bathroom, it's such an important scene for his character, it shows that he is only human.

I agree, Mrs Longbottom81. The focus has always been on Harry's relationships, well, I guess the main focus has always been Harry, as it should be. But it also means that many of our other favorite characters get short shrift when it comes to the films.

The thing is, I think that in HBP especially, it's so important to give time to Draco! Not just because of Harry's obsession with him and what he's up to, but to sharply outline the division between one schoolboy who fights for good, compared to the fearful fate of another schoolboy who chooses the dark. It's all coming down to most witches and wizards having to make a decision about which side they will be on, so Draco simply has to be given screen time! We must see that contrast!

That and I simply love Tom as Draco. I want him to get this chance to show off his skills, instead of being comic relief as usual. People do love to see a bully 'get his,' but that joke has worn thin in the HP films, I feel.

Okay. I so agree with most of you. We saw ‘enough’ of him in the first three movies, but it’s like his character have gotten to little screen time in both GOF and OOTP. But book six is different as it’s him whose fault everything is and there need to be focus on the PLOT itself. I mean. If we don’t see enough of him, then the people who do not read the books won’t be able to follow the whole MAIN PLOT (plus the horcruxes of course).
But not giving him a lot of screen time is stupid and I don’t think they’ll cut him out as much as in the two previously movies…

draco simply has to be in HBP much more than he was in OotP! the amount of time he was in that film was pitiful!
they need to show more of draco to show that sometimes harry is right when he comes to those far-fetched conclusions of his...
and if they don't put draco in the film enough no-one would understand the sectumsempra scene, which i also believe they have to put in otherwise we won't see the moment harry suddenly doubts how wonderful his potions book is and snape would never find out that harry has that book, and then harry won't ever hide it.

so if they are going to put that scene in (which i believe they are going to have to) they are going to have to have a reason why they want to show draco crying aren't they? and we aren't going to have a reason unless harry spy's on him!

I think will see a lot more of malfoy in this movie because he is important to the plot. The other movie there was enough of him to fit just right. But in HAlf blood prince we WILL see more of him.

I agree there needs to be a lot more Draco!!!!! I don't think they have much choice in HBP. I think they will have to include him a lot more since he is a big part of the book. There are a lot of things that happen that involve Draco that they could not leave out. I would love to see more of him in the 6th movie. I was sad to see that they had cut a lot of him out in the 5th one.

Well,yeah,of course we will see more of Draco in the 6th movie.It is necessary and important according to the plot.His role in the previous books wasn't that big anyway so it was easier to cut him out a lot and keep others that mattered more. I hope we will see the Sectumsempra scene and I say that because I want to see Snape in it.But not too much blood!

I agree we will definitely see more of Draco in Half-Blood Prince which we'll have to anyway as he does play a very big role in the plot and Harry becomes a bit obsessed with finding out what he's doing all the time. But he also didn't have a very big role in the 5th book so it makes sense he wasn't in the movie as often.

Draco was extremely underplayed in OOTP, but I have a feeling that he will be in HBP more. In OOTP, he wasn't that important, but in HBP, he will be. He now has an important job to do, and will therefore be in here as a more important character. He is supposed to fix the two-way mirror, and kill Dumbledore.

Two way mirror? I thought he fixed the vanishing cupboard and snuck the Death Eaters in that way... or am I going crazy???

I do think Draco Malfoy needs more screen time. Not only Draco, but Snape, and so on. I've already written several times that most characters that appear more often in the books should have more screen time. I think that Warner Bros. is so concerned about showing only Harry, that other characters are left behind. The excuse they give is that they have to cut several scenes in order not to have a very long film. I'd like to remind them that Gone with the Wind, was a 4-hour film, with a break after the first two hours, and nobody got tired or bored. I do hope they will show Draco and Snape in film 6 all the way.

I would hope that if the script follows the book in a sensible manner, then Draco will have the screen time he needs. Ultimately, HBP is about Harry's suspicions about Draco's activities and him being a DE, so one would imagine that since that is a major part of the plot, it will be kept that way. But knowing the way these film makers work, I wouldn't put it past them to glaze over the Harry following Draco thing and concentrate on the Harry?Dumbledore thing. This will also mean glossing over any time given to Snape as well and I think that would have dia consequences for getting things back on track for DH.

They need to put Dracos dilemmas in this movie, it will be stupid without it.

Sorry, I made a mistake. It was the vanishing cupboard that Draco Malfoy fixed, and not the two way mirror! Don't worry No.1_HarryPotterFan, your not going crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope he gets a lot more time on screen as well, I don't think that the movies really capture howmuch Draco and Harry hate each other. The part of HBP where Draco discovers Harry hiding in thier cabin under the cloak. Draco really gives it to him. I'd like to see that "dislike" played up a bit more, which would entail more screen time for Draco.

I agree. They show that Draco and Harry don't like eachother, but they don't show how they LOATHE eachother!
He definitely needs more screen time...but I'm pretty sure he will get a lot in HBP because of the vanishing cupboard and the fact that he kinda needs to murder Dumbledore.

If the film makers aren't stupid, they should have more of Draco in the 6th movie, since his parts are actually connected to the main plot of the story this time... he should be in the HBP as much Umbridge was in the OTP.

I can't wait to see more of Tom Felton's acting... I really liked him in the 2nd movie, and back then I thought he was a much better than Dan Radcliffe. But back then Tom had much more experience in films than Dan... Now it is quite the opposite, since Dan has really improved his acting since the 4th film and is also doing other acting projects besides Harry Potter movies.

I hope Tom Felton hasn't lost his touch in acting and portrays all of Draco's emotions well. This movie will be a big step for Draco's character which always was portrayed as an one-dimensional character... always mean, confident and a bully...

Whereas the 6th movie must shows the different sides to his personality, like his sadness, confusion, vulnerability, etc. I really hope Tom doesn't disappoint his fans and does a great job of portraying those other sides of Draco's character.

I think Sectumsempra could be used in the movie. If a large amount of blood would change the film's rating, then perhaps it could be done more as a ripping apart of the person, but without blood (sort of like it did to the inferi, since they have no blood). It would still be cool.

I think he's really important! Definitely ALOT of him, please! AND we just need to see him anyway, he's just so gorgeous . Yeah, well I think that the Sectusempra curse should be done, because it's an important moment between the two. I mean, they definitely have to make him cry, too! It'd be adorable . They could make it happen really fast or just cover it up, like they do in a lot of movies. They just don't show those parts to keep the rating down without cutting off the bad parts. They could make the room dark, or make something cover him... I don't know. Just get him in that movie!!

Draco is an important character but wasn't Tom Felton going to quit after a certain number of movies?
I remember reading that years ago.
I think there'll be alot of Draco in the sixth movie as he has a much more important role.

I'm dying to see Tom's proformence in this film. He's my fave character and I loved the HPB Book!
He should have a big part in this film, cause he was very important in the book. Though we'll probley see him more towards the end.

Well, Draco is not one of my favorite characters in this series however, I do think that this is the movie for him to shine. He should have a substantial part to play with not only Snape but the tower scene with Dumbledore as well. I look forward to seeing the strain that Draco goes through trying to fulfill the Dark Lords task and I hope to goodness they keep the scene with Moaning Myrtle in it and not just skip to the fight between Draco and Harry.

Well I'm sure that he'll have a much larger role in this movie since his role is also much larger in this book. However, on the other hand, while Draco is in the book more much of that is Harry thinking about what he's up to or talking about his suspicions of him not actually physically seeing that much of him but we definitely do see more of him than we have in past books and I'm sure we'll get to watch more of him in this movie as a result!

I am so hoping that they give Dracio the screen time he so deserves in the last 2 movies, considering he plays such a big role in HBP it would only be fair if they put him onscreen as much as he is in the book it would make so much more sense for the movies sake...

Marcey

I really hope that Malfoy gets a larger role, but the only problem is that I feel he hasn't done well with the role since the first two movies. I hate the way he has been portraying him since them. The first two were exactly as I had imagined him and then he just started to change and do a terrible job. Hopefully Tom Felton won't ruin the movie.

~Filius