What the hell are they up to now?

[erinellii]

 "arrowsmithbt"  wrote:
>  Not content with a school choir with toad accompaniment, 
> further perversions of the canon should be expected in the
> film version of PoA.
> 
> A report (in the Daily Telegraph at the end of last week) stated
> that a steam roundabout (trans. fairground carousel) had been
> purchased and would feature in the film.
> 
> Why am I getting a bad feeling about this?
> 
> Kneasy


Oh, Kneasy, you're gonna love this, then.  This is from an interview 
with the director posted at the Leaky cauldron a couple dys ago:

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Re: whether JKR is cool with him the cosmetic of her world):

C: Really cool. She actually encouraged me: ''Please don't be 
literal.'' At the same time, we wrote a scene where there was this 
organ, and tiny people were jumping on the keyboards. She 
said, ''Nope, no tiny people at Hogwarts.''
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I read that and went "Huh?" 

They wrote a scene with tiny people jumping on a keyboard?

Why in the hell would you want to...

Oh, never mind, at least it was stopped.

But, all in all, I'm cautiously optimistic.  I just won't *expect* it 
to be literal, and won't waste mental energy grumbling over what they 
change.  In fact, maybe I'll pretend I've never read the book, and 
that this is a totally new story to me.  Then I'll judge on whether 
it is a good movie or not, and not how faithful it is to the book.  I 
don't consider the movies canon anyways.  And hopefully it will be, 
as they've stated they want it to, faithful to the "spirit" of the 
book.

But, boy, am I ever glad we won't be subjected to little people 
jumping on keyboards :-)

Erin