Do you think the filmmakers didn't get the reference?

Yes. But that they thought they needed to substitute Irish for Greek - even if they didn't get that it was a wee joke, wtf? Is this some stupid 'we heart the Irish' thing? It seems like such a pointless change. I mean, I think you may be right about it being some kind of odd ethnic sensitivity - but WHAT ethnic sensitivity? Greeks can't be mentioned? There aren't enough mentions of the Irish? What?

t baffled

Maybe they thought it was like a Greek Stereotype, and worried about fielding letters from scads of touchy men named Nikos? Or maybe I just watch the Sopranos too much.(Because several of those characters are very rabid about portrayals of Italian characters. It's very meta.)

Maybe they thought it was like a Greek Stereotype

Hee. I like this. Those Greeks, flogging dodgy monsters (the ones we forgot to nick when we stole their antiquities) to half-giants in pubs. Yep.

Now if it had been in a kebab shop...

Those Greeks, flogging dodgy monsters (the ones we forgot to nick when we stole their antiquities) to half-giants in pubs.

Payback is a bitch.

Hermione's family bugs me.

We never hear about them. She sees them about two weeks a year and no one seems to care if she spends all her non-school time with the Weasleys. I'd love to have a chapter on what it was like for her in the Muggle world.

I think Harry should spend part of his summer with her -- because it is odd.

They're proud of her, but they don't want to see her.

I agree. They should spend some time at the Granger's. Arthur will be very very jealous.

I want to know more about the Potters. Maybe I missed it, but was James an orphan? Where are the Potters?

YEAH! Does DD say in SS?

The Potters were older when they had James who was an only child. I guess they didn't have living siblings either -- or none with offspring.