Movie Changing Book Perceptions

[blpurdom]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "catorman" <catherine at c...> wrote:
[snipped gripes about the movie--many of which I share <g>] 

> Finally, I loved Diagon Alley, although was disappointed with the 
> Leaky Cauldron scene, and I am having to revisualise Hagrid's 
> house.  I have to keep repeating Hermione's classic line - "But 
> Hagrid, you live in a wooden house!"

Diagon Alley did look lovely, but not the Leaky Cauldron, I agree.  
The funny thing about Hagrid's house, though, is that the stone 
house in the film made more sense.  In northern Scotland, when you 
see really old croft houses, they're made of stone with rather small 
windows.  Hagrid's house in the film is smaller than a croft house, 
though, almost like a traditional but-and-ben Scottish coalminer's 
house.  However, that would actually be luxurious, since the "but" 
was the public room and the "ben" was the bedroom, and Hagrid was 
supposed to live in a one-room hut.  But still, in northern 
Scotland, a stone house is much more usual, especially as an adjunct 
to a large (stone) castle and residence for a gamekeeper.  It's just 
too bad it ruins Hermione's line.

--Barb
(who wishes they'd kept Ron's line to Hermione, "Are you a witch or 
not?")