JKR hints at secret

[ereturtle18]

No: HPFGUIDX 73550

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com,
> > 
> > Jake wrote:
> > 
> > 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."

 
 And Laikokae responded:
> Me: It's the hand-thing in Borgin and Burkes when Harry comes out 
> the wrong floo. It's the only otherwise completely pointless scene 
> in the movie. It has abosolutely nothing to with COS at all and 
yet 
> they still kept in.
> 
> Plus, while they butchered everything else out of that scene 
(Malfoy 
> Snr and Jnr, misusing magical artefacts, "under the floorboards of 
> drawing room" etc), they kept that scene and they kept the hand.
> 
> Laik

Now me, ereturtle18:
          In the book, the fact that the Malfoys had Dark Arts stuff 
hidden under the floorboards was never brought up in Borgin & Burkes.
Lucious merely stated, "I have a few -- ah -- items at home that 
might embarrass me, if the Ministry were to call." The Trio found 
out about the floorboards from Dobby, if memory serves in a later 
book when they were nicking food from the kitchens. In any case, Ron 
commented that he would tell Mr. Weasley about it, so Harry couldn't 
have heard it at Borgin & Burkes because Ron wasn't there. Sorry for 
the minor quibble.

ereturtle18 the quoting quibbler