ADMIN: Movie discussion reminder and first introductions to HP

[Ali]

No: HPFGUIDX 100574

Greetings from Hexquarters!

Movie mania has hit HPfGU and three of our public lists are now
discussing PoA.

For the benefit of our newer members who may be getting slightly
confused about what is allowed on this list, we would like to clarify
that Main List posts should be canon based. We don't ban reference to
the movies, but we do ask that they are not the prime focus of
messages.

This particular movie with Alfonso Cuaron's new vision of the
Potterverse has stirred up a fair degree of controversy and we
recognise that many posters who do not normally take part in Movie
discussions have felt that they wish to express their feelings.
Messages which reference the new movie in this way in the context of
a discussion of how individual readers interpret JKR's imaginary
world are quite within the scope of this list. On the other hand,
posts which discuss individual viewer's likes and dislikes regarding
the movie or points which have no canon relevance whatsoever (e.g.
the identification of characters in the movie) belong, under our
current conventions, on the Movie List:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Movie/

A grey area is that inspired by JKR's quote,

"I really got goose bumps when I saw a couple of those things, and I
thought, people are going to look back on the film and think that
those were put in deliberately as clues,"

Obviously, we do allow posters to make their own predictions about
future developments, but please try to ground these within canon. If
you wish to suggest that a particular feature of the movie is one of
these "deliberate clues", then please try to demonstrate how it
would fit in with existing canon as we would expect of one of your
own original predictions, rather that treating the movie as canon
evidence itself.

As this movie has stimulated so much discussion we have decided to
call an amnesty on movie discussion until midnight, Sunday night BST
(that's UK time). Please try to keep to keep the thrust of messages
canon based until that point and divert completely movie related
posts to the movie List, or to OTC

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/

where discussion is also taking place. From Monday, we will be
deleting any movie related messages which are not canon-based and
returning them for posting to the appropriate list.

Personal experiences relating to posters first introduction to HP
are very interesting. However, they are rarely about the canon of
HP, and for this reason, we would be grateful if the "First Found
HP" thread be transferred to the OTC list, where such discussions
are welcomed.

Thank you for your attention!

The List Elves