Harry Potter at Gloucester Cathedral

[Alix Petty]

No: HPFGUIDX 4935

Actually, there was an article about the filming at one of the Cathedrals in
a magazine the other week.  A lot of it's background info about the
location, but it's quite interesting (interesting enough for me to keep it
with my Harry Potter cuttings anyway) and there are some opinions of various
inhabitants of Gloucester on the merits and demerits of filming Harry Potter
at the Cathedral - most of the objectors haven't even read the books but
proclaim that they know all about their evil content - clever, that.  If
anyone's interested, I'll type up the article, though bear with me, as it's
quite long and may take me some time.  There's also quite a nice shot of one
of the classrooms.

Alix

----- Original Message -----
From: Amanda Lewanski <editor at texas.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 12:11 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] [Fwd: Found the article]


> Hi, list. Sally of the Rickman newsletter found the article she got the
> Satanist reference from; here it is. FWIW.

> Slurs of evil content seem to be plaguing poor Harry
> after the film shoot was forced to abandon its
> proposed filming at Gloucester Cathedral amid a sea of
> similar accusations. Parishioners, concerned about the
> book's promotion of 'pagan ideals', staged protests
> which forced the crew to relocate to Durham instead.
> However, with excitement over the upcoming film of
> Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone growing
> exponentially and fresh converts picking up his books
> every day, it would seem that the threat of hell and
> damnation is simply not what it used to be.