A couple of OotP puzzles for me

[Lizzie Mae Lilly]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at ... wrote:
>
> I was browsing in Borders the other day and saw a new SF magazine 
called  
> "Death Ray" with Harry on the cover.  The article inside had some  
new quotes and 
> insights, so I bought it.  It's the August 2007 issue,  only the 
third issue 
> of the magazine, and they have a very fun style of  writing (It's 
British, so 
> they have that lovely cheeky attitude in the  writing style that I 
enjoy so 
> much).
>  
> The reason I'm telling you about this is a quote from David Heyman 
I've  
> never seen before.  When the article talks about JKR's input to the 
movies,  
> Heyman tells the writer that they send every idea for a cut to JKR 
for her to  
> approve or disapprove.  The one thing she told them they couldn't 
cut from  OOtP 
> was - are you ready? - not Grawp, nor Kreacher (which is what I'd 
read  
> before).  This is a quote from Heyman:  "It was a Snape thing."   
Now what do you 
> suppose that meant???  Hmmm.  
>  
> The floor is open for speculation!
>  
>  
> Lynda
> 

Of course the obvious 'Snape thing' IMO is SWM, which *was* filmed 
but cut drastically.  Sev calling Lily 'mudblood' turned out to be 
very important to the entire HP story.

Lizzie