Movie Contamination

[heiditandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 51677

I'm working on a longer-form response to a few things that have been
posted in the past day or so, but I do need to do a shout-out about two
bits of movie contamination that have ended up on this list: 


R. Penar wrote: 

> When 
> Malfoy fell off his broom and Daddy was at the Quidditch match, 
> nothing came of that. If Daddy hadn't been there, what would have 
> happened? Draco would send an owl "Daddy, daddy, that Harry Potter 
> knocked me off my broom and Madam Hooch didn't call the foul and we 
> lost the match!" Perhaps Lucius would have sent a nastygram to Madam 
> Hooch demanding a rematch or something. Would this have 
> been "coddling" Draco? Sure!

Well, none of your background for this argument ever happened in the
books. Lucius is not mentioned in the books as attending any Quidditch
match. Does that mean he was or he wasn't? We don't know - we don't know
one way or the other at all. In the *movie* he was there. In the *movie*
Draco fell off his broom while Lucius watched. 

Not in the books. 

Diana wrote: 

> I don't think Professor Sprout was in danger of Neville 
> Longbottom trying to get her fired just because she left him on the 
> floor after fainted out in class.  

He did not faint in the books. He fainted in the movie. So she
wouldn't've been in any such danger in the books, because it didn't
happen. 

Heidi, being LOONy