Hogwarts a nice place? (Was Re: The Movie vs. JKR?)

[jjpandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 100382

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Sara Dockery <yodamarie78 at y...> 
wrote:
>> 
> I really liked the new look of Hogwarts, it looks much more like 
what I'd always pictured.  And Dan said this better than I will, but 
even in PS Hogwarts is a wonderful magical place, but it is a little 
scary and definately difficult to navigate.  There are so many little 
pitfalls, like "doors that wouldn't open unless you asked politely, 
or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors that weren't 
really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending." (SS American 
131-132).  And that's just in the first book!  
> 
> Yoda (Who really thinks that the reason she loves the books so much 
is that she was reading POA for the first time when her husband 
proposed)


JJPandy's response:
I liked the new Hogwarts and the outdoorsiness of the POA movie.  I 
loved how magic was just there and not everyone stood around and 
gawked like they were so amazed at everything that happened.  (I 
loved how the Whomping Willow's change of season was not really 
witnessed by any of the characters.)  Harry is now accustomed to 
being in this wizard world once he is away from the Dursleys.  No 
need to stare in wonder when a "painting" asks you not to interrupt 
its sleep with a bright light.
People get upset over changes in the book too.  I remember hearing 
people complain about the "new" angry Harry in OotP (maybe not on 
this message board, but definitely on the local radio and in 
newspapers).  Some people couldn't handle the fact that Harry was 
growing up in these books and not being forever trapped as an 11 year 
old.  JKR handles Harry's growing up well -he is realistic to me- and 
so did the POA movie.

JJPandy (who loves that Harry FINALLY has messy hair all the time in 
a movie)