[HPforGrownups] Flesh-eating slug repellent

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 47391

I said (about Hagrid using the flesh-eating slug repellent for the
mandrakes):

> *sirens go off* L.O.O.N. alert! Movie poisoning! I may be wrong (given
that
> I haven't read the books start-to-finish in a rather long time and I'm
short
> on sleep with sick kids), but I *think* this comes from a side mention in
> the movie, and is not in the books.

Jazmyn answered:

> Well, Rowling approved it. You know as well as I that she oversees the
> script changes.  You know shes explaining more details to the studio
> then we ever get from her books.

Me:

I know nothing of the sort.

There is a vast gulf between active and tacit approval; the former involves
consultation and input, and the latter can be many things, even unto looking
at a nigh-finished product and thinking, "oh, well, it doesn't hurt
anything." I have seen nothing that said she was involved with CoS on an
active level; and on the tacit level, it simply may not have been important
enough to raise a fuss over, even if it's incorrect. Please provide the
source for your certainty--as soon as I read for myself a reliable citation
where it is stated with authority that JKR oversaw CoS script changes or
gave additional information to the studio on this film, I will give you your
point. Until then, I think you're jumping to conclusions.

Now, EVERYONE PLEASE NOTE: Further discussion of this point, *in and of
itself,* should move to the Movie list where it belongs. This list is about
the *books.* As I understand the current policy (and ListMods, please
correct me if I'm off), when details of the movies are reliably traceable
back to JKR (such as the extra scene in the first), and mention of them may
help make a canon point, such movie mentions are allowed. But only then, and
only in reference to a canon point. Reliable, to me, means trackable,
citable statements made by trustworthy sources.

To get back to the point, it was a clarification of a mistaken cite, and
still stands--the flesh-eating slug repellent had *nothing* to do with the
mandrakes in the book, all these entertaining ideas about the age of
Hogwarts, the state of its greenhouses, the insect life that may feast on
magical plants, or the wizarding pest control service employed
notwithstanding.

So, can we bring this back to redandgoldlion (sorry if I got that wrong)'s
original question? Why is Hagrid buying a repellent to keep something that
eats flesh, away from cabbages? Isn't that just slightly fishy? Is there
perhaps another, more sinister and unrevealed reason he was in Knockturn
Alley? (menacing chords build) I would think the "Hagrid is Ever So Evil"
people would have jumped on this by now.....

~Amanda