[HPforGrownups] Re: Dahl and HP Soundtrack

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 478



> 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!)