Movie as canon? (was notes on the trailer frame-by-frame)

[dfrankis at dial.pipex.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 21664

Steve Vander Ark wrote:

> Madam Hooch wears falconers gauntlets.  Her eyes are yellow in the 
book, but apparently they aren't in the film.  Her whistle is shaped 
like a feather.

and then:

> I know the movie isn't  canon, but I think it can be counted on to 
interpret visually what JKR wants, since she's given so much input. 
And I think she visualized it like this.

Thank you, Steve!  As usual, a few words paint a thousand pictures.  
You have raised an issue that has been bothering me.  You can imagine 
JKR saying to WB: "It's very important that Hooch wears gauntlets and 
has a whistle shaped like a feather, but I can't tell you why, and 
you mustn't breathe a word to a SOUL."  In the book, she can get away 
with just not describing things that she wants to conceal for now - 
eg no whomping willow in PS.  In the movie things like Hooch's 
whistle have to be given definition.  Of course another author might 
just let a whole lot of stuff slide that would be inconsistent 
between later movies (will they keep the same cast over 7 movies?), 
but not our Jo.

What might we be able to deduce and what status will it have?

Will there be (have there been) rumours from the set that might 
originate in a JKR instruction of some sort?

BTW, we sat on benches at meals in our Hall at college - I hadn't 
imagined anything different, so the movie is anyway a good spur to 
sorting out matters of intepretation.

David, wondering whether we will be allowed to see Alan Rickman's 
canines.