thats coool!

Were you a fan of the Harry Potter series before you signed onto writing the screenplay?

i have just one question…
how come, if harry saw his parents die, that he can only see thestrals until he sees voldemort murder cedric??

How did you manage to convert Harry’s possession by Voldemort into a visual narrative?

How did you decide how to shape Harry’s growing anger?

How many drafts did you have to write before you felt that the script was perfect?
Do the producers and director have any say as to what makes it into the script? (and if so… how much?)
In the film we see that Cho ratted out the D.A. to Umbridge (not intentionally, of course, but under the influence of Veritaserum). Was this written to clearly show Harry and Cho’s relationship coming to end, or was there, perhaps, another meaning?
In books, we as readers can go inside character’s heads in the sense that we can read their thoughts. Do you have a certain approach to translate the character’s thoughts onto the screen?
-Taylor from Grand Rapids, Michigan

hi,, me again, could someone tell me (please) why harry potter can only see thestrals after he sees cedric murdered?? (if he saw his mom die?)

^^ J.K. Rowling explained this in an interview I believe. It had something to do with the death “sinking in.” Although Harry’s parents died, this is not an event that he can still picture or recall, since he was only a baby. And as far as Cedric, I believe that it wasn’t until after the summer when he had finally processed it from reliving that graveyard scene over and over in his dreams, at which point he has come to accept the death. Hope that helps… :)

Mr. Goldenberg, was there any point in writing Order of the Pheonix in which Jo said to keep something in. If so, when?

How was it coming into the middle of the series after the first four films had been written by the same scriptwriter?

What made you pick and use only Nargles as Luna’s peculiar creature reference, rather than also using or strictly using one of her other many mentions like say crumple-horned snorcaks, or blibbering humdingers? :)

I wish I could go….

:(

What do you wish you could have left in the screenplay from the book?

was the battle scene hard to scale down to size?
unrelated-will peeps that aren’t able to go still be able to watch/read a transcription of Michael answering all of these questions? And what about the other keynote speakers? God I HATE not being able to go!!!

What was the pressure like working on this project? Did you have a whole staff working with you to adapt the book to the screen, or was all up to you? How difficult was it deciding what stayed in the script, and what went? Did the directors and producers tell you ahead of time what scenes would be cut, or were those decisions up to you?