Ginny and the unicorn tapestry

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 187368

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
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> > va32h writes:
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> > I don't know if the "medium that must not be named" is a joke or if you really have utter contempt for the films, but I do feel that the movies are a part of the HP universe, and thus worthy of discussion, even if they are not the precious "canon". 
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> Potioncat:
> It is a sort of joke on ourselves and is sometimes written as TMTMNBN. Generally on this site, posts are supposed to be canon based. So a movie would only be discussed here when there is some canon connection--otherwise, it should not be named.
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> Most of us do not have contempt for the movies at all. In fact, we're usually discussing them just as eagerly at the HPfGU sister site for HP-movies.

Geoff:
I might add that I coined the phrase "the medium that dare not speak its 
name" several years ago - and I hope that is recognised as a nod in the 
direction of Oscar Wilde.
:-)

Many of us enjoy the films as much as the books - I came to the books via 
the films as it happens.

I think Potioncat has outlined our views very clearly....