Consolidating All the Groups into One
Geoff
gbannister10 at geoff_bannister.yahoo.invalid
Sun Jan 24 21:02:23 UTC 2010
--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
Carol:
> Wasn't the whole point of having a separate Movie group in the first place to avoid "film contamination"? I don't want to have to distinguish between Rickman!Snape and Book!Snape, for example, and I don't want to encounter posts that talk about Harry "killing" Quirrell with his bare hands, for example, and have to point out in my response that that happened only in the movie version.
Geoff:
I came to the HP books via the films andso am familiar with both. There
have been times in the past when I have tried to bring forward comparisons
for the sake of pointing up canon and having to resort to the hackneyed
phrasing"If I might be allowed to refer to 'the medium which dare not
speak its name'.
I agree that some of the film "modifications" are questionable. For example,
what has considerably irritated me in HBP is the elevation of Ginny to a kind of
Wonderwoman figure leaping to Harry's aid which on occasions makes the
latter guy look a bit of a wuss as well as creating storyline distortions out of
which the last two films will have to wriggle. Plus the pointless extra scenes
such as the well-discussed attack on The Burrow and the episode at the
railway station when Dumbledore appears to take Harry to Slughorn's.
However, I would think that in a combined group, context would indicate to
the well-rounded HP fan which medium was being referred to. As I have said
more than once, anything which does not refer to canon of the actual films
should be passed to OTC.
Changing tack slightly, it has been suggested that there might be a poll of
members about this. If there was such an event, we wold then have to decide
whether sufficient of the membership had voted to give a clear view and
whether any such poll, if it were to take place, would be mandatory or
merely advisory. So, we have a number of different and conflicting paths
to consider.
"Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes",
(Frodo, "Three is Company" LOTR:FOTR)
:-(
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