Rowlingss write hand man

Adapting the stories for film has been a delicate process,as faithfulness to books adored by millions has always had to be balanced with the conventions and length of Hollywood blockbusters. Kloves is the screenwriter for all but one of the movies,Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix But Deathly Hallows was perhaps the most difficult of all. More than 700 pages long,the book ultimately proved too dense to make into a single film. So it has been split into two.

Part 1 covers the first half of the novel,a kind of prolonged road trip in which Harry,Ron and Hermione become nomads in hiding and search for magical objects that must be destroyed before Voldemort Ralph Fiennes can die. Part 2,which builds to a final battle between good and evil inside the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,will be released in the summer of 2011.

I was uncertain, said David Heyman,one of the producers,speaking of the decision to make two movies from one book. But as Steve began to break the book down,it became clear that there was no way to tell this story in one film.

The filmmakers say their approach has essentially stayed the same throughout the series.

I took my cues from Jo, Kloves said,speaking of Rowling. The first day I met her,she said: I know the movies cant be the books. All that I ask is that you be true to the characters. I believe Ive fulfilled that request.

Writing the script for Deathly Hallows was in some ways easier than writing the earlier scripts,Kloves said,because it was the first time he knew how Rowlings epic would end. Rowling always vetted his scripts,stepping in when she could see Kloves veering off course. For instance,she redirected his approach to Dobby,the downtrodden house-elf. I had elected to slightly de-emphasise him,and she said,Dobbys going to be important,and so you want to revisit the scene, Kloves said. Dobby plays a pivotal role in the new movie.

After a while,Kloves said,I had a remarkable ability to anticipate events. For example,he said,he always suspected that behind the oily nastiness of Severus Snape Alan Rickman lurked a man of deep bravery with his own lonely integrity. There was no question in my mind that Snape was going to be heroic,and I wrote him that way from the start.

Similarly,he always suspected that Dumbledore was gay Rowling publicly announced that Dumbledore was gay in 2007. When you live within a narrative,you can tell, Kloves said.

But he admitted to a spectacular misjudgment: He thought that Hermoine would be killed. When I read the book,I thought,Bloody hellhow could you do that to me?

Rowling has always said the series would end with Deathly Hallows. But years of back-and-forth correspondence with her,Kloves said,have revealed that the material in the books is just the barest surface of what she knows about that world.

If you can get her to talk about it,its so remarkable what she knows, he said. I once asked her what were the 12 uses of dragons blood and she wrote back in 30 seconds what they all were.

I cant tell you how great this stuff is, he added. Its almost a crime for it not to be published. SARAH LYALL