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Oh see, now I don't remember where exactly I got that from.  Maybe I 
made it up in my head. hehe. But I did look again and remember part 
of the idea from that webcase was when Columbus was talking and said 
she had a lot of input in regards to the script.  I have heard that 
in multiple interviews and I have one snippet below as an example, 
but my basic point was that you can't say that "such and such from 
the movie" was all the director's fault or the writer's fault.  Even 
if Jo had involvement in a whole 3 lines of the script, you don't 
know exactly which ones.  She didn't let them run totally rampant 
with her story, just (from what I can tell) how to portray her story 
with the camera.  ie Costumes, sets, directing, camera work, etc.  
Anyway, enough of my rambling.  I swear I've been doing it too much 
today.  Must be bored.  :)
This one snip is from an interview with Kloves.  The whole shot you 
can find here:  http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/1101/Kloves/Kloves.html

Like any love, this is both a gift and an Achille's heel. Pruning 
someone else's work, shifting plot or dialogue to suit the differing 
needs of a screenplay, turned out to be harder than dealing with 
creatures of his own invention. "You're killing someone's little 
darlings, someone else's little darlings," he says, "and that was 
harder somehow." 

Not because he was afraid of Rowling's disapproval, but of his own. 
Rowling was his biggest asset, he says, available for any question, 
no matter how small, willing to read a draft, a page, a snip of 
dialogue. Not every screenwriter wants input from the author of the 
original book, especially when the author is still smack-dab in the 
middle of the creative process, still working with the characters 
and the themes, watching carefully their past as she propels them 
through their future, to their destiny. The only time Rowling said 
words like "don't" or "can't," Kloves says, is when he would tweak 
references made in book one to characters who would, or would not, 
appear in later stories. 

"I would get these intuitions," he says, "about certain 
conversations between the characters, about things that might turn 
out to be very important. And sometimes I would drop things into the 
script. I had added one reference about the character Sirius Black; 
Jo said 'No, you can't do that because something's going to happen 
that will show that's not possible.' But she was always very helpful 
and her knowledge of her characters, of this world, is just amazing. 
I'd ask her any question, and she'd never miss a beat--she knows 
about the development of the broom over the centuries, or of 
Quidditch, and this is before she put out those little books for 
fun. What she knows goes to the center of the Earth. The books are 
just the surface."