[Fwd: Re: Hogwarts crests (sic)]

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 6446

Inevitably, discussion of the deplorable heraldry of the movie-version
(what's in the books themselves is rather nice) hit my heraldry group.
To echo the question phrased below, does anyone know if JKR *did* retain
any rights to the character names, etc.? Are they entirely Warners' now?

--Amanda

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Hogwarts crests (sic)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:00:50 -0500
From: Joel Polowin <jpolowin at sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: Discussions of SCA Heraldry <SCAHRLDS at LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
To: SCAHRLDS at LISTSERV.AOL.COM

At 09:04 AM 12/7/00 -0900, Bjarni wrote:
>This squares fairly well with what's on my cup, which has a quarterly
>emblazon of all four: 1. Gules, a lion (more or less) rampant to sinister

The new Harry Potter calendar shows what I assume is supposed to be
a Gryffindor device.  Roughly: Quarterly lozengy gules and argent
and gules semy of lozenges azure, a lion rampant to sinister Or
maned and tufted brown.

What I find even more startling is the notice that the characters
are copyrighted by Warner.  I wonder what kind of contract Joanne
Rowling signed with them.

Joel / Evan Little
jpolowin at sympatico.ca