Nagini

[John]

No: HPFGUIDX 192406



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <geoffbannister123 at ...> wrote:
> 
> Geoff:
> Just to be picky and set the record straight:
> 
> 'The snake jabbed its tail at a little sign next to the glass. Harry peered
> at it.
> Boa Constrictor. Brazil.
> "Was it nice there?"
> The boa constrictor jabbed its tail at the sign again and Harry read on:
> This specimen was bred in the zoo.....
> 
> ...As the snake slid swiftly past him, Harry could have sworn a low hissing
> voice said, "Brazil, here I come... Thanksss amigo."
> (PS "The Vanishing Glass" p.26 UK edition)
> 
> Obviously, although the snake was born outside the country, its parentage
> allowed it to hold a Brazilian passport.
>

Hi Geoff.
Thanks for that correction, of course you are right, it is the usual problem of book story versus movie story. Sometimes my poor old brain can't remember which is which, somedays I feel older than Dr Who! :o)

For some reason the scriptwriter for the films just seemed to be compelled to make small and often irrelevant changes to the canon text in the screenplay. Why this was done in such a minor matter I have no idea. Maybe it's an ego thing, equivalent to 'marking his own territory', whatever it's damn silly and pointless. :o(

Later reworking of the books by Steve Kloves were generally not to bad, allowing for the fact that the story needs to be 'compressed' to make it fit a film, because as we all know no matter what they say, sometimes 'A word is worth a thousand pictures.' ;o)

However when it comes to the utterly unrecognisable mutation of the storyline in DH2 that's where Kloves and I part company. As I always say it is a total 'dogs breakfast' of a movie and so AU (Alternate Universe), it has little in common with the canon text, or Jo's intent when she wrote it. :o(

Anyway, thanks again for taking us back into the 'real' JKR. :o)
Many Blessings.
John, (Oriondruid).