JKR hints at secret

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No: HPFGUIDX 72920

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jakedjensen" 
<jakejensen at h...> wrote:
> It is possible that this has been discussed already (searched 
archive 
> and could not find anything...but still could be there).  I just 
> watched the special features for the Harry Potter and the Chamber 
of 
> Secrets DVD in which JKR and the screenwriter talk about 
converting 
> the script to screen.  At one point, the screenwriter says 
something 
> like, "well there was something I wanted to take out and I went to 
Jo 
> and asked her if it was important and she said yes, that needs to 
> stay because it is important for the whole series."

ME:  That is interesting, because the Screenwriter, at that point, 
caimed to have read all of the books to date (1-4, OotP wasn't out 
yet.).


> I just watched the movie again and I was trying to think what the 
> screenwriter wanted to cut.  Here are a couple of criteria I have 
> come up with:
> 1) it is probably a scene/character not significant to the plot of 
> the Chamber of Secrets.  Something that can be taken out without 
> impacting the immediate story.
> 2)  it is something that would not seem to be important (or why 
would 
> the screenwriter consider cutting it).
> 
> Here are a couple of possibilities:
> 1) was Hagrid really in knockturn alley to by slug repellent?

ME:  True...that never was resolved.  Maybe.


> 2) the polyjuice potion stuff (really they don't find out much 
there)

This we know becomes important in book 4, but he would have already 
known it was important.  I don't think it is this one, but who knows.


> 3) Dobby regaining his freedom

ME:  True...we haven't heard the last of S.P.E.W.


> 4) Gilderoy Lockhart losing his memory

ME:  Why else, other than him being important, would we meet him 
again in OotP?  Why bring him back at all?

> Any other ideas?
> Jake

I'll look for more.