I know it's not that important but I think they could have at least kept it bushy.

Haha, this is a funny topic..but in a way I agree with you because that is how Hermione was portrayed since book 1..so they should respect that and keep it that way..but do you really think that Emma Watson would like to act looking messy? Nope, didn't think so. =)

it would be okay if it would be the same (in every movie)
SS: its just bushy and it looks like a bird's nest
CoS: It's slightly wavy
PoA: it's very curly

What will she look like in GoF? may be something like jimmy hendrix?!

haha..jimmy hendrix.
they have to keep her hair bushy for GoF because she has to spend like 5 hours trying to make it look nice for the yule ball...remember?

Can't wait to see that in GoF. I am so waiting just for the Yule Ball scene in that movie. Cause that was like one of my favorite chapters in book 4. It's just a great thing cause everyone had to get all dressed up and it was so cute how Ron and Hermione had that fight about it. Even though that chapter does nothing for the overall book. Other than telling us that Hagrid was half giant. (Big surprise there)

OMG i hate hermoinie's hair in the third movie. it looks to wet and short. and she was never supposed to care about her hair ("is that really what my hair looks like from the back?")

i know, i hated that part. my friend and I think that it's just their way of foreshadowing the 4th movie when she fixes her hair for the Yule Ball.

That line was almost as retarded as the bird flying into the whomping willow (It was only funny once, people..), I think their making her look too pretty. Now theres nothing wrong with that, but Hermione is suppose to look..more..Hermioneish, like more intelligent. Now she just looks like every other girl..

Aye, I mean, there's supposed to be a kind of irony in GoF where Rita Skeeter writes "A stunningly pretty muggle girl...*...and obviously, Emma Watson IS a beautiful girl, but Hermione's supposed to look rather more bookish, which could easily be acheived.......in a *why, Miss Jones, you're BEAUTIFUL!* way....
You know, you can tell she's pretty, but keeps it kinda...hidden...Oh well...

I just wish that they had kept her buck teeth. Cause my favorite part in the 4th book is where she get's beaver teeth and then gets them fixed. Oh, well...

i thought her hair was really well calaborated in the third film. all light and curly, and definetly not as long!!! spidey!

Hair shmair, big deal... No, but really, I read some stuff from J.K. Rowling or someone that she is supposed to be a pretty girl, but her bushy hair sort of masks that. Get what I'm saying? And I thought the line was amusing...

It does say in the 4th book that Harry saw her (when he didn't know it was her) at the Yule ball and said that Viktor had brought a pretty girl in a blue dress. So we knew she was pretty at that moment.
It was her hair and teeth that made her seem not so pretty. But her hair was OK in the 3rd movie.

The movies are ruining everything! Don't get me wrong I do like them but they are changing EVERYTHING!! Hermione is supposed to look like a geek with big bushy hair and big teeth but they are making her look prettier by each movie! No people no! It's like with Ron, in the movies they are making him look like a wimp, always being scared and stuff! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

They make Ron look like a dork with all his stupid faces and stuff. I LOVE Ron he's my fav. character, and the movies to cut out a bunch of his lines and give them to Hermione and they do play on his weaknesses alot. But Rupert is so cute so I'm happy with any scene that he's in.

Yeh, they DO give Hermione half of Ron's lines!

Uglyness doesnt sell.

I think Hermione is supposed to be evolving... book one, she was extremely bookish yes... same with CoS... but in each book she becomes a little less-so... a little less uptight and her hair is morphing with that. *shrugs* Girls generally do get more attractive as they get older too... and I liked Hermione's new hairstyle, and I'm sure the Yule Ball scene won't suffer too too much because of it. (I'm looking forward to that quite a lot myself )

i hated that part. it's like they're desperately trying to make the movie funny. it was just too random.

emma's hair is pretty, i can give it that. but they should have made it a little messier and bushier for the movie. yes, uglyness doesnt sell (ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so shallow...sorry) but it's supposed to follow the book! i really dont like it when movies do that.

but anyway, i think hermione in the book is a pretty girl. harry wouldn't have called her pretty, well because he's only 11. (my sister who's the same age as that still thinks boys are icky; same here! haha jk) you dont really see 11 yr old boys checking out girls now do you?

as the books continued, harry doesnt really say hermione is pretty because she's one of his best friends. you dont really have an opinion whether or not your best friend of the opposite sex is cute. one of my best friends is a guy, and i can't really say if he's cute or not, because i dont have an opinion.

the movie is making ron seem like some class clown kinda person, and he's just not like in the books (even considering he does have several accidents, and jokes around sometimes). in my point of view, the movies are making ron less noticable subtlely [sp?] and hermione more noticable. it's as if they are trying to make harry and hermione become a couple indirectly. ehh okay, sorta off topic, but i just had to say it =\

i noticed her hair changing too- why did they do that?! i no that emma would obviously wna look pretty but i wish theyd stick to the book more!

Mmm... I think a big part of it is that Emma wanted to change her hair, just like they wanted to wear more normal clothes.

yeh but theyr gettin paid for it so if they wnt her hair to be bushy she should live with it!

well, i think her hair was great but HERMIONIE never cared about her hair until the day of the ball, right?




i don't know much english so i don't know if this message is right

yeh that was gd english, and gd point, she didnt care.

The thing is that emma is more sophisticated to Hermione's character.

Oh, I had horrible teeth just like Hermione, thank God for braces they saved my teeth they look as if I had putted a spell on them. lol

Hermione looks hot like that. But, she's not supposed to. xD

They should've at least attempted to make her look like she had buck teeth and her hair bushy. That way, when she DOES go to the Yule Ball, it'll be like this extreme transformation.

omg i know!!!!!! i loved how hermionie was when she didn't care about how she looked and the stupid movie changed all that!

I so wanted her to have the buck teeth! It would have been so great to have that scene in the 4th movie where Snape says, "I so no difference" About her teeth being really really long. That wouldn've been so great. Everyone would hate Snape even more. I know I did when I read that part.
Yeah, she's gonna look really pretty at the Yule Ball and it's not gonna be that big of a shock, oh well.

They still could put that line in, we don't really see Emma's teeth to much. And I liked Hermione's hair, both in Cos and in PoA. It's just character delovpement ::shurg:: And I think that Emma should be allowed to look at little pretty.

Yes, but she should look a bit more...Hermionish. I mean, Harry doesn't really notice that she's pretty until the Yule Ball. I'm SO looking forward to that! But I can understand Emma too. I mean, who'd want to appear with really bushy hair in front of millions of people? I know I wouldn't. And Hermione IS becoming less of a "know-it-all" now. So maybe they wanted to show it with her hair? Ah well. I just know that I found her extremely cute in the first movie lol. And as long as their's Tom Felton is the movies, I won't complain about a thing!

Yeah, I think her hair in PS was horiable. I couldn't get over how bad her hair looked.

well i dont think it looks right

They should of found a happy medium. It not looking like birds nested in it, but not to styleized.

Thats makes me so mad they did that. They should have at least kept it down. It has to be special when her hair is up for the yule ball.

I thought that her hair looked the worst in COS. No ones hair looks like they spend hours upon hours crimping it before they get up in the morning... It was bad in the first one, but it still looked slightly hermione-ish. I actually liked it best in the third becasue she actually looked like a normal person. Her hair may have been more curly than it was frizzy, but her hair in the first two was just so... unrealistic....

Huh, interesting thought Kreacher, I never saw it that way.

well i kinda agree, they kind off overdid they way hermione looks. she does look like everyone else instead of the nerd who knows everything and cares about grades and not about looks.

Or unless they want her to have that natural beauty look.

Hermione turn Emma?
The whole thing was worth while, but one thing was bugging me...
Emma Watson didn't look like Hermione at all... In the book, she was described: "She had a bossy sort of voice, lots of bushy hair, and rather large front teeth." (SS, page, 105.) Emma doesn't fit any of this description in the third movie. She had light brown hair, and no bushy hair, but that's not what's really bugging me, what's really bugging me is that Emma puts her behavior into Hermione a tad too much. The Hermione we know doesn't care about her hair, but in the movie, Emma playing Hermione said,"Is that how my hair really look?" I think that Alfronso had added too much of the feminine side into the Hermione character making it distract the readers' mind after watching this film.

I'm thinking that Al... brought in a more contempory approach to the series. Whereas Columbus wanted to make the films as if they could have been made 50 or more years ago and had the same feel. (depite alot of scenes being impossible back then).

I'm pretty sure most young ladies nowdays would before thinking about their state of afairs, check to make sure that their hair was ok. There is many exceptions, and Hermione in the first books probably fitted that group. But Al... wanted her to seem more like a normal girl and not a characture.

Even Dudley should be a huge heffalump my PoA shouldn't he? But they left him in his smaller fat suite instead, to make him seem more normal.

Sorry if i'm really out of touch with everything making those points.

Spelling check: Alfonso Guaran? - I really can't spell.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I liked Emma's portrayal of Hermione. You have to remember that it's not really Emma's fault anyway, it's down to the director how her character is - and the screenwriter, of course. I thought Hermione seemed sassy, which is just the way she should be. And there is the suggestion in canon that Hermione is concerned over the way she looks - if she wasn't, she wouldn't have spent so much time straightening her hair for the yule ball or wouldn't have been so upset over the teeth-elongation incident - she had them reduced down to less than they were before.

So I don't find it so strange that she punched Malfoy rather than slapped him or that she seemed concerned over how her hair looked. Perhaps that's all that JKR meant by foreshadowing - the emphasis on Hermione breaking out of the bookish mould she had been cast in up to GoF.

What's that annoying feministic phase that only the spice girls are aloud to use. Oh yeah "Girl Power".

I don't believe that was the best way for Emma to take the films interpretation of the character. It's not girl power at all, in the sence that I've understood "girl power".

It's as Dana just said (i won't bother quoting). The fact that in the books, Hermione is portayed as a book loner with few friends, not the most popular natural hair style and having not so normal teeth. But the beautiful Emma doesn't pull off those last traites, what girl would? (although they could have if it was warranted with prophetics i guess)

So Alfonso/Knowles tried to show her growing in confidence in a different light. Having slightly more stronger willed characteristics and showing concern for her appearance being two of them


I think it will fit in nicely with GoF as they don't have the time to show off secondary characters as well as they are in the books.

[I apologise for spelling and not making any sence in adavance, i' off to bed to ponder over my 5000 words left project thats due in monday]

I cant really understand why everyone has a problem with emma's performance in PoA... maybe I'm alone in my point of view (well not entirely, right Dana ) But I think Emma's done fine.. and i dont want her to change in GoF..

okay. I have to agree with most here. I hated Emma in POA. I mean, i didn't hate her, per se, but i hated what her and Alfonso C. (someone needs to figure out how to spelll that. ha ha) did to Hermione. She is one of my favorite characters in the books, but when i went to see the film i was torn. The first time i watched it I was with a bunch of non-HP-Readers so they thought the movie rocked, but I, on the other hand, thought there were many things 'wrong' with it. The Emma-Hermione Issue (as i like to call it) and the Slap-Turned-To-Punch thing among others. I think that the future directors will keep this idea od Hermione, so most likely we will not escape it. I'm just amazed that J.K. Rowling was okay with them *butchering* her wonderful characters. I think they did Ron and Harry fairly well in POA, so why change Hermione? And I will ask this once again: why not just let the movie be 4 hours long (if it needs to be) in order to keep cannon. I swear, it's getting as bad as some of the fanfiction out ther. Okay, now I am just rambling. Pfft!

Y NaffiT?

With note to a four hour film possibility...

It would not be advantageous for them to spend twice as long filming a film that has actors that are over the required age already, nor would any dragged along parent wish to watch a two parter or one extremely long film.

Even when it comes to DVD's they have trouble getting 2 and half hours onto a disc, so anything longer would require 2 discs. (Like Schindlers List)

Then it comes back to money.

I am a fan on Emma but I must admit that in POA she isn't Hermione, she is herself.Since she is like one of the main caracter, they should keep her true to the books.

I watched the movie before I read the book, so I actually really liked the film from a film point of view. So I think that the people who have a problem with Emma's performance or whatever really has a problem with whoever wrote the screenplay. The person who did the adaptation itself. But yes, I understand how people want it to be true to the book. I mean just like I love Xenosaga and I want the anime to be true to the game (which it isn't) I understand how you guys want it to be true to the book.