Snape - Casting, stills - Simon's sigs

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12911

Rebecca wrote:

>- Head of Slytherin House

Amy Z wrote:

>Not canon, but a common assumption by fans:  this means he was a
>Slytherin while in school.

Stephanie wrote:

>Ummm, it is so in canon, if that IS what you were talking about.

Oops, that was unclear punctuation on my part.  I meant that the idea 
that Snape himself was in Slytherin while a student isn't 
canon--it just seems likely to many of us that Heads of Houses were 
members of their houses.  Maybe someone who's actually gone to a 
school like that can weigh in.

Rachel asked:

>Also....Is anyone a bit scared of this movie?

Very.  But I'm confident that it can't ruin my experience of the book, 
just as Harriet the Spy (which was unwatchable, IMO) couldn't ruin 
that one for me.  I have such vivid mental pictures that I don't 
think they will be displaced.  So the worst that will happen is I 
won't like the movie.

E.g. I will always see Hermione's hair as very bushy even though they 
seem to have ignored that.  (Does this mean we won't get the 
va-va-voom Hermione at the Yule Ball?  The scene is a little too close 
to that Ally Sheedy "all made up and turned from a wild thing into a 
cute, normal, promgoing girl" thing in The Breakfast Club for my 
comfort, so I wouldn't miss it.)

LOVE the pic with the flying letters!  Harry smiles and makes my day 
(or should it be makes.my.day?)!

It's okay by me that it isn't in the kitchen.  These are the kinds of 
details that disappear, unfortunately but inevitably, in adaptations. 
 I look forward to many happy hours of running to the books to check 
on some detail or another and saying "aha! they changed that one 
too--quels idiots!"

I think we might just have to live with 4 Privet Drive having only one 
fireplace, which will have to serve as a real one in PS and an 
electric one in GF.  So the Dursleys put the electric one in sometime 
between 1 and 4--they're moving up in the world, right?  They probably 
got it done at the same time that Vernon got his new company car.

Twins casting:  the twins are being played by James and Oliver Phelps, 
according to Rames' site: 
http://www.redmailorder.com/potter/moviegallery.htm.  

Re: Simon's bottomless well of sigs:  And the winner of the prize for 
Most Fanfic Cameos goes to...Dr. Simon Branford!  You should demand 
royalties!  Oh yeah, fanfic can't get royalties, can it?  Oh well.

Amy Z

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  "Do you mean to tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that
this boy--this boy!--knows nothin' abou'--about ANYTHING?" 
  Harry thought this was going a bit far. 
                               -HP and the Philosopher's Stone 
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