Harry Potter: Anti-American clarification

[sharon]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "laurenmcoakley" 
<laurenmcoakley at y...> wrote:
>
> SNIP It never had occured to 
> me that JK Rowling or Harry Potter could be Anti-american prior to 
> this conversation with my brother in law.  And while I wholeheartedly 
> disagree with him, I don't know much about this debate, and was just 
> looking to the group for some facts to throw in his face.  SNIP SNIP> 
> Lauren
>

As someone already said, Verne Troyer was in the first film.  Also, let 
your brother-in-law know that Chris Columbus, who directed the first 2 
films is American.  He had his daughter play Susan Bones in the these 2 
films also.  Even though she didn't have a speaking part, she did get a 
fair amount of camera shots.  So there's a second American in the films.

Also, a few people talked about the accents.  I saw a film that Alan 
Rickman was in where played a doctor who did the first heart transplant 
in the US.  I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head, but 
I do remember him having an AWFUL, HORRIBLE US southern accent.
Sharon