[HPforGrownups] Re: Dahl and HP Soundtrack

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 446



Ebony Elizabeth wrote:

> ---"Rob Usdin" <robusdin at h...> wrote:
> > It makes me think back to when I saw "Willy Wonka and the CHocolate
> Factory" - which happens to be my all time favorite movie.  While
> some license was taken in bringing the movie to life in a "pseudo
> American/ENglish town" with AMerican actors, it absolutely is a
> wonderful interpretation of the book.
>
> I remember now that first author that came to mind when I first read
> HP was Roald Dahl.  I loved reading his books as a child and can
> still remember the school librarian reading "The Twits" to my first
> grade class.  I'd like to do some Dahl this year, but the fourth
> grade teachers pretty much cover him

My husband is firmly convinved that James Potter is the grown up version of
James of the Giant Peach, and that's why Harry has no grandparents (or
great-aunts!) on his father's side.
I'm firmly convinved that he's wrong, more or less, but it would make sense
for James' parents to have passed away early in his life - it would explain
the lack of grandparents & other family on his father's side, and explain
why he & sirius were "like brothers"...

(btw - Elizabeth - congrats on the appointment!)

(OT - do any of you live in the Washington DC area? If they ever play Willy
Wonka at a Cinema Drafthouse on a weekend afternoon again, go, sit in the
back, and order a chocolate sundae (or knickerbocker glory) to eat while
watching the film!)