Ginny and the unicorn tapestry

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 187370

Carol earlier:
 
> > However, none of this has anything to do with HBP, as far as I know. The medium that must not be named made up Ginny's unicorn Patronus, didn't they, or did JKR mention it in an interview? I don't remember its being mentioned in OoP (the DA chapters), and she doesn't cast it anywhere else.
> > 
> > So, sure, nice symbolism of innocence and virginity, but it's completely uncanonical. There's no such tapestry anywhere in the books.
> 
va32h responded:
> Ginny did not have a unicorn patronus in the OOTP film; it was a horse.
> 
> 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". 

Carol again:

Thanks for the correction. I was pretty sure that Ginny's Patronus wasn't specified in the book and I couldn't remember what is was in the film (not one of my favorites).

"The medium that must not be named" is a joke, yes. It's the way the way long-time list members refer to the films because this list is intended for discussion of the books (canon) and the movie list is for, er, the medium that must not be named. As I'm sure you figured out, yhat term (which I don't claim credit for--it was used here before I joined) is an allusion to or a play on "He Who Must Not Be Named" in the books. (I've always wondered whether JKR got it from Ryder Haggard's "She Who Must Be Obeyed" in the book "She," or maybe from a British sitcom that borrowed that epithet for the wife of one of the characters. Sorry that, not being British, I can't remember the name of the TV show.)

Carol, whose opinion of the films (most of which she rather likes) can be found on the Movie List if you care to look