JKR requested bat shot in PS/SS film was Re: JKR's input on film scene at GH

[jotwo2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 104681

Do either of these interviews confirm that JKR requested a shot of a 
bat be included, which is another rumour I've heard about the first 
film?

I hope this isn't OT - bats get mentioned in canon in QTTA so I 
wondered if JKR is going to give them some significance.  Plus there 
is the Batanimagus!Snape theory.

JoTwo

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "carin_in_oh" <aldhelm at e...> 
wrote:
> > Carolina:
> > 
> > Look in the PS/DVD. There's an interview with Rowling where she 
talks
> > about that scene. At least in the spanish edition. 
> > 
> > That's why I consider those few seconds canon (or very close to) 
and I
> > find interesting the 'You heard James?' line combined with James
> > specifically not appearing in the scene.
> 
> Thanks! Since I posted my original query, I've discovered that 
JKR's authorship of that 
> scene was also mentioned by Chris Columbus in an October 10, 2001 
interview with 
> Empire Online. The Columbus interview itself seems not to be 
archived, but reports of 
> the interview mention that the scene was from one of the discarded 
1st chapter drafts 
> of PS/SS - which, in light of what she's now told us about the 
first chapter of HPB, is 
> even more interesting than it would otherwise be. I'd bet if she 
brought back a 
> snippet of the discarded chapter for the PS/SS film, there's a very 
good chance it's the 
> same discarded chapter she's planning to use in bk. 6.
> 
> Carin