Consolidating All the Groups Into One

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Carol:
 
> I've already given my reasons for disagreeing, especially since we have two more films coming and the Movie group will become active again when trailers and movie news, especially still shots, start popping up all over the Internet. The films are so different from the books (burning the Burrow, for example) that they're almost an alternate HP universe. Where was the Half-Blood Prince (Snape and Teen!Severus) in the so-called HBP film? They're two separate subjects, as different as the book "Oliver Twist" and the musical "Oliver!"

Geoff:
The following is a message I posted on Feedback, repeated here for reference.

I came to the HP books via the films andso  am familiar with both. There 
have been times in the past when I have tried to bring forward comparisons 
for the sake of pointing up canon and having to resort to the hackneyed 
phrasing"If I might be allowed to refer to 'the medium which dare not 
speak its name'.

I agree that some of the film "modifications" are questionable. For example, 
what has considerably irritated me in HBP is the elevation of Ginny to a kind of 
Wonderwoman figure leaping to Harry's aid which on occasions makes the 
latter guy look a bit of a wuss as well as creating storyline distortions out of
which the last two films will have to wriggle. Plus the pointless extra scenes 
such as the well-discussed attack on The Burrow and the episode at the 
railway station when Dumbledore appears to take Harry to Slughorn's.

However, I would think that in a combined group, context would indicate to 
the well-rounded HP fan which medium was being referred to. As I have said 
more than once, anything which does not refer to canon of the actual films 
should be passed to OTC.

Changing tack slightly, it has been suggested that there might be a poll of
members about this. If there was such an event, we wold then have to decide
whether sufficient of the membership had voted to give a clear view and 
whether any such poll, if it were to take place, would be mandatory or 
merely advisory. So, we have a number of different and conflicting paths 
to consider.

"Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes",
(Frodo, "Three is Company" LOTR:FOTR)
:-(