Unless...

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 21634

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rodeodangerqueen at y... wrote:
> Unless they deviate from the main ideas in the books to a 
> significant...and I REPEAT....SIGNIFICANT....extent...I'm just 
going 
> to go and enjoy the movie unless the movie ITSELF is not good.  
Just 
> my two cents.

I just *love* the idea of closing down Hogwarts the educational 
facility and reopening it as a Muggles Theme Park ("Not Just for the 
Literate Anymore!").  I just get goose pimples imagining Harry Potter 
as the Warner Brothers house-elf. It will be so thrilling to use the 
TM symbol every time we type Quidditch, Platform Nine 3/4, or Sorting 
Hat.  Hopefully, the movie version will correct the sentimental JKR 
and put Harry in Slytherin House, where WB so clearly feels their elf 
belongs. 

HP the Motion Picture will stand in relation to the Canon where Space 
Jam the Motion Picture stands in relation to the Termite Terrace (if 
you have the wit to concieve me). 

...doesn't the fact that Book Five is being significantly delayed 
because of this dreadful cinematographication of HP scare the holy 
You-Know-What of anyone besides me?  The late novelist Jerzy Kosinski 
said that when he was involved in the filming of his novel Being 
There,  he felt his creative novelistic powers being literaly drained 
from his psyche (like cheerful thoughts in the presence of a 
Dementor). And Kosinski went through a hell of a lot rougher 
experiences than (thank goodness!) JKR or you or I will ever be 
compelled to meet.  

   - CMC (who likes movies, but likes books better)