JKR's involvement, was House Elves and Unforgivable Curses

[Amanda Geist]

Oradork, He Who Does Not Sign Posts, said

> 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.

This seems to be a pervasive rumor. Heidi Tandy, an editor of the Leaky
Cauldron, has been in a great position to actually have the scoop on this,
since they see just about all the articles quoting JKR about the films.
Here's a paraphrase of what Heidi told me:

1. JKR had script approval for both films. BUT
    (a) she didn't see PS/SS in final form until less than a month before
its release
    (b) while she made a number of set visits during PS/SS filming, she only
went on-set once for all of CoS.

2. Both Steve Kloves and Chris Columbus have said several times that she had
much less to do with CoS than with the first movie.

3. Unlike the first film, she did not write any additional scenes this time.

4. Even though she's spoken with moviemakers, video game people, the trading
card game people, etc., presumably to help them be faithful to her vision,
she has *not* gone back and added any additional information to the books
already out there (including the two schoolbooks).

So, she wasn't there for filming, she hasn't helped write the script, she
didn't add anything (other than that scene in the first movie), and she
didn't edit the film. True, she has not criticized it, but I don't consider
a lack of public complaint to be a positive confirmation that changed or
added things are correct.

The films are interpretations of JKR's work, not JKR's work itself.

~Amanda