House Elves and Unforgivable Curses

[Nia]

 "oradork" wrote:
 Just as a side note, JKR helped write the script and she was 
heavily 
> involved in that process, just not the filming process.  Who 
knows, 
> maybe she was the one that added that bit.  Like in hind sight, 
she 
> wanted to change some bits about her books but alas, its too late 
> now.  So, she added or changed some bits in the movies to her 
liking.

Now me:

JKR herself has stated on more than one occasion that she was not 
involved in CoS since she "felt it was in good hands after the job 
Columbus and Kloves did on PS/SS."  I think I read somewhere that 
she had visited the set only once, if that.  I do know that Jason 
Issacs was heavily involved in his character's development. He 
designed the marvelous serpent-headed walking stick with its hidden 
wand and asked for long blonde hair. The bit where he says "Let us 
hope Mr. Potter will always be around to save the day." was his 
idea.  This AK could have been his idea too.  Given the fact that 
JKR has so carefully planned out the events of her books, I 
seriously doubt that she would have altered her master plan to bring 
in AK here, two books early--especially with no explanation. (To 
someone who had not read the books, this film scene would make no 
sense.)  The scene she wrote for PS/SS was designed to help the 
exposition of the film story and fit perfectly.  In CoS it is 
totally irrational of Malfoy to try to kill Harry right outside 
Dumbledore's office.  It would mean a certain sentence in Azkaban.  
Also, since he is not privy to how Harry repelled AK in the first 
place, it would be foolish and totally against character for him to 
risk having the spell rebound upon him.  Malfoy is, if anything, 
calculating. ;-)
--  Nia