[HPFGU-Movie] films as canon

[Richelle Votaw]

Tina writes:

> 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? 

I don't know.  I mean, we don't have anything to compare the movie footage with.  And we don't really see that far behind Voldemort.  At all.  A little when he's walking up to the house, once he's in there someone could be standing right beside him and we'd never know it.

> 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. :)

At the risk of getting close to book discussion (but I guess I'm safe with movie discussion above), I, again, don't know.  But my wildest speculation is that Snape was standing with or near Voldemort and James when he died. Thus JKR didn't want us to see that bit of spoiler.  Or not. :)  One way or another, I am convinced there was a missing spell in the priori incantatum from Voldemort's wand.  The bounced AK should have shown up as something.  A lightning bolt?  A flash of light?  But there's nothing between Bertha Jorkins and Lily Potter (in the corrected version, of course).  There were screams of pain (cruciatus?) and so on. Okay, I'll stop now.

Deidre writes:

> I like the idea that has been set forth, that of the movies being an 
> alternative canon. That being said, I am one who came to the Potterverse 
> through the first movie. As a life-long fantasy fan I should have read the 
> novels long ago, but hadn't, mostly because the over-hyping, esp. from 

Me too.  Although I was half way through Sorcerer's Stone when I saw the movie.  It had taken me maybe two weeks to get half way.  Then after the movie it took me two weeks to read all the rest of the books!

Anyway, that aside, I have a friend at school who's in her late forties, who couldn't stand hearing my friend and I rave over the HP books without finding out what it was all about.  She read them all, I gave her the schoolbooks for Christmas.  Loved them.  Over the holidays she saw the first movie for the first time.  She came to me today and told me she'd watched it.  "Then I watched it again.  And again."  She loved it, loved the kids, etc.  I was actually surprised at such a positive view of it from someone who started with the books.  All of them, not just the first half of the first book like me. :)

Richelle


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