[HPFGU-OTChatter] Books to movies to books was Re: What should we do next?.

[Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

| --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Cabal" <md at ...> wrote:
| 
| > The experience of reading a book, of becoming personally 
| > and deeply involved with characters and stories in the 
| > sort of detail you simply can't have with a film. 
| 
| 
| zanooda:
| 
| You are sooo right, nothing can stir your imagination better than a
| well-written book :-)! Being a very character-oriented reader, I
| especially love HP books because JKR's characters really come to life
| for me. I know that the story is important too, but, if a writer
| failed to create believable characters, I won't reread the book even
| with the most interesting plot. 
| 
| I must say that JKR practically never failed me in this respect. Of
| course, there are characters that I didn't get (James Potter, for
| instance :-)), but mostly I see JKR's creations practically as real
| people. That's why I can read and reread those books many times,
| without getting bored - every time it's like visiting old friends :-).

[Lee]:
Here! Here!  And it's not just her characters but the way she gives even
minor characters a good bit of depth.  One example I can think of is
Professor Tofty in OOTP.  Now, how big or important a character is he? He's
not, but from how he was described and how he showed compassion and kindness
to Harry when he had his collapse in the Great Hall...those were things that
made him memorable to me and I remember saying to Art (My better half) that
I would have loved a teacher like Tofty. :-)  Even Wilkie Twycross was well
done.

Smiles,

Lee
(Who follows the three Ds: Desperation, Destructification,
and--and--and--uh--Oh, Whatever.) :-)

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