House-badges/devices

[prince_galrion at yahoo.no]

No: HPFGUIDX 13539

If you go to 

http://www.hpgalleries.com/mgallery22.htm

you can see the house-badges/devices designed for the school-uniforms 
in the movie.  Now, if some-one can lend me a larg sail-ship and some 
cable-lengths of rope, so I can properly keelhaul the artist(s) who 
was (were) responsible for this mess (after frocefeeding him/her 
lutefisk, smalahove and codfish-tongue), I would feel much better.  

As far as the devices go (they are not crests, but they do have 
crests, barely visible on top of the helms), we have already seen the 
Gryffindor device.  I still don't like it - the lion is facing the 
wrong way, for goodness' sake.  The crest may be a lion-head, but it 
is very difficult to see clearly.

The Ravenclaw device, for some reason, does not show a bronze eagle 
displayed - it shows a black crow perched on a twig (at least it 
looks more like a crow, or sparrow, or magpie, than a rawen or 
eagle).  At least most of the field is blue (though the part below 
the twig, for some odd reason, is white).  I will expect the crest is 
supposed to have some connection with the birdie on the chield, but 
it looks more like a horse's head in profile.  

The Hufflepuff-device shows a grey and black badger on a field that 
is quarterly of black and yellow.  This means that from a distance 
more than a few inches, it will be impossible to see what the device 
shows, lest you know what is supposed to be there - this problem is 
similar for the Gryffindor-badge.  The crest is a badger passant.

The Slytherin-device has been mauled to the least degree.  The field, 
which should have been green, appears black on the picture, but it 
may just be a rather dark green.  The crest is a snake.

If they spent 80 mio USD on the movie, they could at least have had 
soemone with a passing knowledge of heraldry device the badges, or 
simply stick to what was already in the books.  It is not that hard 
to do

Now, if someone could please pass the ship and the rope...