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

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 104838

Snow wrote:
> 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.

Eustace_Scrubb:
But in the Scholastic interview of 16 OCT 2000 
( http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript2.htm ),
Rowling said "James was Chaser."  In other words, that sequence in the
movie doesn't add something that Rowling left out of the first book,
it just contradicts what she has said herself (in plain, unqualified
language, too).  I would also argue
that if Columbus was correct in saying that the scene gives us "a key
to something that happened in Harry's past," that means something that
happened after Harry's birth.  I think we're back to the Godric's
Hollow scene, which does not occur in the PS/SS book...where Lily is
shown and James isn't.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb