New poll /J.K. infuenced by movie?

[sophiamcl]

> Anne U:
> (still scratching her head at Mike Newell directing GoF...)

Scratching your head? Really? What do you know about Mike Newell that 
makes you do that? I don't know the first thing about him, so I'm interested 
in your opinion of his previous work.

BTW: Do you think there is any chance whatsoever that the movies have had 
any influence whatsoever on J.K. Rowling? (I'm not sure on which list this post 
belongs--it deals with the books but includes the Cos movie, so...)

I know her vision of WW is strong and vivid--after all, it's her creation, but do 
you wonder whether seeing the films had any effect on her at all? Do you 
think those images affected her to make them part (even if it's a minuscule, 
microsopic part) of the world of her imagination, somewhere?

My comment rises from something that made me do a double-take while 
reading OotP the third time (yep, only the third...I suspect I'm way behind 
most of you).  (The first time I was most definitely  too caught up in the 
moment of such a powerful scene.) But let me start at the beginning.

I remember, on re-reading CoS after having seen the movie, remarking to 
myself that book-Fawkes landed in a heap of ashes on the floor after burning, 
rather than in a convenient little "ashtray" (ha!) such as the movie people 
designed for him. I quote:

(Bloomsbury  p.155): The bird, meanwhile, had become a fireball; it gave one 
loud shriek and next second there was nothing but a smouldering pile of ash 
on the floor.

As you recall, in COS the movie, the ashtray becomes a little nest for 
new-born baby Fawkes which allows Dumbledore to conviently display him to 
Harry while for purposes of the screenplay explaining some of Fawkes' 
magical powers.

This is why I did a double-take on reading the following in OotP (Bloomsbury 
p.725): He did not look at Harry at first, but walked over to the perch beside 
the door and withdrew from an inside pocket of his robes, the tiny, ugly, 
featherless Fawkes, whom he placed gently on the tray of soft ashes 
beneath the golden post where the full-grown Fawkes usually stood.

OK. so there could be a number of explanations--I could probably come up 
with a couple--that have nothing to do with the movie, but it would be fun to 
hear if anyone else thinks there is anything to my theory that there has been 
som cross-fertilization going on.

Sophia