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Bonnie Wright — Eyes
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I’m in the middle of writing my dissertation on love in Harry Potter, but I remembered this and just wanted to take a moment to talk about my favourite shot in the entire film series.
Hermione has just said that Cho couldn’t keep her eyes off Harry while they were at the Hog’s Head. Ok, so Harry’s grinning, Fred and George are making faces to each other, but I want to focus on Ginny. Any time anyone says she’s a bad actress (rather than being directed poorly and written even worse), I’d want to point them to this scene.
In the book we find out just before this moment that Ginny has a boyfriend now, having fancied Harry for years but getting over him “a few months ago”, according to Hermione, though she seemed to be showing signs of it since at least the beginning of Goblet of Fire. We learn at the end of Half-Blood Prince, however, that Ginny never actually got over Harry, despite trying to by dating other boys.
I feel the look on her face here perfectly encapsulates how Ginny would have felt in that moment, overhearing Hermione say that. She’s torn. She knows Harry likes Cho, and she’s trying to get over Harry, going out with other people. But she just can’t shut off her feelings. She’s trying to follow Hermione’s advice though, that the only way Harry would ever pay her any attention is if she backs off, cools down, and acts normal around him. So she can’t react. She can’t let anyone else know, for fear it will make its way back to Harry. She has to bottle it up and keep going like she didn’t hear anything worth hearing.
Bonnie Wright conveys all that to me in a single expression. I don’t know of any other actor who could ever do something like that, not without at least being a huge focus of the scene. Obviously this is a very deliberate, well-planned shot, from Harry, to the twins, right down to Ginny, but despite how good the other elements are (Daniel, James, and Oliver are also great here, even if we can’t see one of them; it’s a fantastically directed shot remembering it’s part of a longer scene), it’s Ginny that really stands out to me. It fully encapsulates Ginny at this point in the series for me.
So don’t be saying to me Bonnie Wright can’t act. Maybe she has been responsible for a few mistakes (though seriously, the writing for her after Order of the Phoenix is horrendous, I doubt anyone could have made it work), but in this moment she portrayed her character more effectively to me than anyone else in the series.
tl;dr: This is a really good shot and Bonnie Wright does a really good job in it.
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