COS Puppet Theatre/ films as canon

[Tina]

 HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com wrote:

Message: 10
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:01:29 -0600
From: "Richelle Votaw" 
Subject: Re: Re: COS Puppet Theatre/ films as canon

Ali writes:

> In general, I would have to say, that no, the films are not 
> canonical. For me, they are somebody elses representation of canon, 
> albeit an informed person. There are slightly grey areas though. 
> The "extra scene" in PS/SS was written by JKR especially for the 
> film. This is sufficient for me to think that Voldemort (or one 
> person) went to the Potter's House, by himself, at night. In fact 
> though, what we actually see is very limited so it could be even here 
> that only part of the events that night are being shown giving us a 
> false understanding.

And we have a limited view of what happens. Once Voldemort's in the house, we only see Lily and Harry. And some green light. There could easily have been a DE (or two or more) following at a distance behind Voldemort as a sort of, I don't know, guard? Just in case something went wrong? Or to watch for muggles? Or good wizards and witches?

Richelle

I have a two (sorta) questions about that scene: 1) Is it completely accurate to what JKR wrote originally, then scrapped? I mean, was LV really alone, or did he have his followers with him but placed somewhere else? 2) I heard that JKR was "ADAMANT" with not having James showing up in that scene also... meaning she didn't want him to be there or seen at all... can anyone speculate why? I'm so curious as to why we didn't get to see James fight LV to his death... Thanks in advance. :)

~Tina



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