Hagrid Death Question

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 57076

Steve (bboy_mn), (quoting Troels?): "As I understand it much weight is
put on the fact that Mr Coltrane  apparently only has a contract
covering the first five movies.
Question: Is Coltrane signed up for a 5 YEAR contact or a five MOVIE
contract. Does anyone know for sure? "

This is just one reason we should *completely* ignore the movie while
trying to figure out canon. Even if we did know what Robbie Coltrane's
contract says, there's about a zillion reasons why he might have a
five year/movie/whatever contract that don't involve him being whacked
in book five. I wouldn't sign on for that long unless I knew that if
the movie series was a huge smash and my character was really popular
then *I* could get some more money out of it.

I think we oughta calm down about the Coltrane contract.  There's
plenty of reasons why Hagrid's death would serve JKR's thematic and
dramatic purposes.

Jim Ferer