The Movie vs. JKR?

[snow15145]

No: HPFGUIDX 100318

I think people are misunderstanding why some of us, or at least me, 
felt a bit sick after viewing the POA movie. It isn't just about the 
facts that were changed or left out from the book version but the 
whole Hogwarts type feeling that we have become accustomed to in the 
first two movies that was totally gone.
 
Hogwarts was like a comfortable old shoe; it fit well. When you're 
tired and just want to escape to a magical world you could visually 
go there via the movies. Waiting for the POA movie to come out was 
much like becoming Harry anticipating leaving the Dursley's but when 
you finally, with much anticipation, got off the Hogwarts Express you 
found that everything was changed. (Change can be good when it is 
smoothly introduced, just like in the books, things change but at a 
growing pace not at a dramatic one.) What the heck happened, did 
Voldemort come and take over Hogwart's over the summer. No
 It was 
just the new director. The new director didn't just clean house he 
changed the house, the grounds, the lake, the quiddich match and even 
some of the characters that we knew like Professor Flitwick. But most 
of all he changed forever that almost tranquil non-existing world of 
refuge into a real non-existing world. He took the magicalness (new 
word means beyond magic) out of the magic.

I guess to some people they would not be upset by this version of POA 
because the above depiction was not what the movies represented to 
them. It would be the same type of feeling if they were to suddenly 
change every major actor that portrayed each character.  If there 
were no Alan Rickman as Snape, Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid, Maggie 
Smith as McGonagall, no Radcliffe, Grint or Watson. If all these 
actors were changed to new ones In The Same Movie, would you want to 
go? My guess would be that you would say No because you've became 
accustomed or conditioned to seeing these people play these parts and 
It wouldn't be the same without them. And it's not the same for me in 
this new movie in much the same way. 

To those of you who may be stuck in a mode of thinking that you need 
to stick up for this film for whatever reasons you feel, please do 
not feel insulted. I am not trying to insult anyone but I am asking 
that you respect the feelings of people who may feel like myself and 
give us an opportunity to be disappointed. 

Snow-who still has the uncontaminated versions of Hogwarts to watch 
until what is hopefully a return to what I feel is the real Hogwarts 
in GOF