[HPFGU-Movie] Re: House colors

[Amanda Geist]

Thanks to Manda for the pic that shows the scarves!

Judging by this, the liveries (for the scarves, at least) are

Gryffindor - maroon and golden yellow
Slytherin - dark green and white
Ravenclaw - light blue and light gray (interesting departure from their
armory colors)
Hufflepuff - black and golden yellow

On the armory (coats of arms) - I have a set of House coat-of-arms candles,
about 2" high each--is this what you have? Because they show the armory
developed for the movie--the ones with divided fields and just the heads of
the animals.

The only armory officially illustrated in the books is the combined Hogwarts
coat, the quartered coat that has a full animal in each quadrant, with
undivided fields, and the H on the inescutcheon over all. That was a drawing
that appeared in the UK editions. Descriptions of the Houses' banners in the
text sound like each House's coat of arms is simply their quarter, which
would make sense. Any other designs were developed for the movie, pretty
much all depart from heraldic rules of contrast, and a few of them truly
suck (the ones with lozengy backgrounds).

I think the little appliqueed coats of arms on their robes *do* have the
entire animal, but over a divided field. These also have a helm and mantling
(the helmet at the top of the shield, with its mantling coming down on each
side of the shield).

I like the liveries they developed for the scarves. I think they went with
the light gray for Ravenclaw, rather than any shade of gold, to balance it
out visually--two of the houses' lighter color is a shade of yellow, two of
them have a shade of white.

--Amanda, always happy to waste bandlength discussing heraldry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Pressnell" <manda at qx.net>
To: <HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:55 PM
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: House colors


"Amanda Geist" <editor at texas.net> wrote:
>
> Hufflepuff, for no reason I can fathom, was altered. If you look
> closely at the Hogwarts coat of arms (which combines all four Houses'
> coats), you'll see that for some obscure reason they have changed the
> badger to white/silver. ?? Ugh. They took this lovely design of a
> black badger on a gold field, and made it white on gold. This is
> called Low Contrast--hard to see from any distance away--and if their
> scarves are similarly white and yellow, I repeat, Ugh. They *should*
> be black and yellow, but I don't know that we saw any Hufflepuff
> students close up enough to know what they did with them in the movie.

There's a photo at Rex Features of some of the student extras:

http://www.rexfeatures.com/cgi-bin/rppshimg0?i=379885L

Hufflepuff is yellow and black. The yellow appears to be lighter than
Gryffindor's gold.
Ravenclaw appears to be light blue and white.

A friend who works at the Wal-Mart bakery swiped four little cake toppers
for me (don't laugh!),
each with a house coat of arms on them. They say  2001 Warner Bros. They're
all pretty
much accurate to the book descriptions as far as I can remember. Ravenclaw's
bronze is even
a bit darker than Gryffindor's gold. Hufflepuff's badger is black with a
sort of yellow face (or
yellow highlighting).

Manda
who thinks she'll be getting a Star Wars cake for her birthday this week
since she already has
all the pieces of the Harry Potter one. heheh.
--
http://www.mandamia.com


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