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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jotwo2003" <jsummerill at s...> 
wrote:
> 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

Snow:
I found part of the interview at:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/2002/harry/potold2.htm

- 14th October 2001 -
Empire Online interviewed Director Chris Columbus yesterday who said 
that "[JK Rowling] did a little piece for us that wasn't in the first 
book but she had written it and she authorised it and it's in there 
and it's a little secret that you won't expect to see. It's in the 
first film because she originally wrote it for the first book and 
decided to take it out. So you'll see that when you see the 
film...one little sequence where we get a key into something that 
happened in Harry's past"...

The only little thing, referencing Harry's past, that I found in the 
movie that wasn't in the book was where you see Hermione tell and 
show Harry that his father was a seeker. The seeker reference along 
with seeing James playing with the snitch in the pencieve scene has 
already been discussed and basically desided on that James fortune, 
along with the snitch/seeker reference, has lead many to the proposal 
that James is the heir of the originator of the snitch, 
FantasticBeastsAWTFT, Bowman Wright.