third time notes/list of errors

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., hp_lexicon at y... wrote:

> I'd like to put together a list of errors in the movie for the 
> Lexicon. I'm not talking about continuity errors, since I don't give 
> a hoot about those, and I'm not talking about honest artistic 
> decisions and edits that have to be made to convert a novel to 
a 2-
> 1/2 hour movie. I'm talking about things that are inexplicably 
> different, things like Hagrid getting Fluffy from an "Irish chap" 
> instead of a Greek chap,

   It turns out there *is* a legendary Irish gate-keeping dog 
guardian...the Dormarth. Read about it here:
http://members.tripod.com/~Moonpfyr/celticdeity.html

JKR has been known to combine mythologies before.  Maybe 
she just wanted someone to notice.
    
Someone mentioned Shakespeare as an example of how canon 
should be regarded. But Shakespeare in performance is given  
nowhere near the reverence paid to  Shakespeare  as literature. 
Directors  cut, reinterpret, reassign lines, etc. to their heart's 
content. 
    
Pippin