TBAY: Lars is bright tonight (part 2 of 2)

[Susan Miller]

No: HPFGUIDX 87692

--- nkafkafi"  wrote:

> Nice theory, but that part about Quirrell still being alive is not 
> likely. We all saw him breaking into thousand pieces in the movie. 
It 
> didn't look like something unicorn blood or even the elixir of life 
> could fix. 

Constance (me):

Two problems with that. Movies are not canon. Movies also can violate 
canon. We saw the carriages being pulled by horses. Not invisible 
thestrals.

Secondly, when the movie makes a canon violation, they can come up 
with SOMETHING that fixes it. Or they can simply ignore it and make 
the audience make the leap. I'm eager to see how they handle the 
thestral problem. If the story requires that a burnt-to-dust Quirrell 
come back for a curtain call, the writers will figure out how to do 
it.

Thirdly (okay, three problems), I'm not convinced that JKR had 
absolute veto power over the movies. I think the movies would have 
been better if she had.

I'll quit now before I get a forbidden Movie post howler.

Thank you for the confidence otherwise. I stand by my conviction that 
Quirrell is alive and will reappear at a critical moment.

While I'm at it, now that we have linked the Hogwarts plumbing, the 
Lake and Durmstrang, there are lots of other exiting possibilities 
that may be explored. How about the giant squid throttling a sea 
invasion? Maybe there is now a job for Trevor - running through the 
pipes for some Noble Purpose?

Constance Vigilance, now risking a howler for fan fiction on the 
canon list, too.