About the Movie (spoiler)

[maginker at yahoo.com]

Okay guys this is about a specific scene in the movie, so if you have 
not seen it, then you should not read this.  

I have read a ton of fics in which Harry is physically abused by 
Vernon, Petunia, or both of them.  I guess that I can see why people 
make this jump from cannon, afterall they are horrible to him.  
Making him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs, barely feeding him 
anything, and talking about him badly while he is in the room.  In my 
opinion, this is a form of child abuse, but its mental abuse, not 
physical.  As far as I can remember however there as been no physical 
abuse. I never thought that it would turn physical in cannon, so I 
was really shocked about one scene in the movie.  Right after the zoo 
incident when they got back to Privet Drive, Vernon grabbed Harry by 
the hair and shook him around, rather violently.  Granted this is 
fairly mild, but still IMO, a form of child abuse.

Now my questions.

Did JK approve this, or just dismiss it as not important?

Does this tell us something more than cannon, or did I miss it in the 
books?

Or is this just something unimportant added by Steve Kloves?

Or is this not child abuse?  Maybe this is acceptable behavior while 
punishing someone, and I am making too big a deal out of it.

Also, Chris Columbus said that they shot a scene for the movie that 
wasn't in the books, that JK wrote, but cut it out.  She gave her 
permission for them to use it.  He said that the scene shed some 
light on Harry's past. Did he mean that the scene wasn't in any of 
the books, or just not in the first book?

What scene did he mean?  Was it the flashback scene to Godrics 
Hollow?  Because I felt that scene wasn't what really happened, but 
was Hagrid opinion of what happened.


I am very curious to get your opionions on the matter.

Bryce

By the way, I really like the part where Dudley got stuck on the 
other side of the vanishing glass, while Harry laughed at him.  Very 
nice twist, that I don't think was in the books.