Yearbooks/Harry Potter TV series

[Zarleycat at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 28226

Okay, everyone calm down - there is no Harry Potter TV series that I 
know of.  I only put that as a subject because a friend of mine 
suggested it.  I wonder what others think.  My friend, who has not 
read any of the Potter books and really has no interest in doing so 
(I'm doing the best I can to browbeat her into the realization that 
she is depriving herself of Nirvava) wonders why JKR opted for a 
movie instead of a TV series.  Yes, a movie is BIG, SPLASHY, 
ATTENTION-GRABBING, and worth a lot of $$$....but my friend's thought 
centered on the Star Trek phenonenom.  She thought "Why not run the 
Potter books as a serial TV program?  The producers could do a 
chapter a week/a book a season and not run into the problem of having 
the child actors grow up too fast.  Plus, like Star Trek, there would 
be the syndication possibilities.  Harry could run forever on TV.

Any thoughts?

Yearbooks - do schools in the UK have yearbooks?  In the US, high 
schools (grades 9-12) have books that record the events of the year.  
Usually, there are individual head shots of the seniors/graduating 
class, plus group shots of the lower grades.  Plus, there is 
information provided on sports teams, clubs - drama, debate, chess, 
French, Spanish etc. and various photos of daily school life.  
Granted the norm in the US is that students go to a local school 
until the time that they go to university.  Most do not go to a 
boarding school, like Hogwarts.  

We haven't seen any evidence that Hogwarts school yearbooks exist. I 
think that this could be a handy method for JKR to impart some 
information to us about the MWPP era if Harry should stumble across 
yearbooks of his parents generation.  Who is in what house?  What 
students got the best grades? Who is on the various Quidditch teams?  
Where did James/Severus/SiriusLily/Remus fall on the academic ladder 
in relation to each other?  Was Sirius on a Quidditch team, only to 
be replaced sometime in his sixth year - which would correspond to 
the time of the send-Snape-to-discover-Remus-the-werewolf prank.  

Anyway, I think a yearbook would be a handy device to reveal past 
happenings and could direct Harry to some rather pointed questions.

Marianne