It's a good question: how different are the canons? I've seen the movie more recently- but when I've got to write futurefic, not really that big a help. I suppose if I call it movie canon, any mistakes I make out of ignorance can be put down to the....

I should try and find a way to bring Harry and Snape to Sunnydale, and slash them there, shouldn't I?

Is there a difference between HP movief fanfic and HP book fanfic?

I don't think so, not really. The difference might be seen in visualizations of the characters. Rickman is older than Snape is, canonically.

In fact, if anything, the movies fail from being too slavishly faithful to the books.

I've read that the movies were as literal adaptations of the books as possible because the producers felt that was what kids wanted.

As a kid, I would have been seriously peeved by anything that wasn't a blow-by-blow adaptation of the book. I feel that the way Peter Jackson & Co. edited, adapted, and shuffled LotR was close to perfect. It acknowledged that film and book are two completely different media with different strengths and weaknesses.

Shrug. Maybe it is what they wanted. Maybe it's what they want not knowing what the alternative is. (I mean, there are plenty of grumbly Tolkein geeks out there, but having re-read FOTR since seeing the movie, I'll admit that Jackson's a better storyteller than JRR was.) For me, though, the combination of the extremely literal adaptation and Chris Columbus's plodding directorial style made the movies into very lovely, very well-acted snores.

Kids are incredibly picky. I know when I was a kid and I used to see adaptations of books I'd read over and over and over I would freak out "That's not how it goes. That's not right. They left that out. This is WRONG!"

And I think it comes down to the decision of who they wanted to please more with the Harry Potter movies---the kids who wanted to see everything as close to the book as humanly possible or the adults who wanted to see the best adaptation, even if that meant making more changes to the movie.

Kids are incredibly picky. I know when I was a kid and I used to see adaptations of books I'd read over and over and over I would freak out "That's not how it goes. That's not right. They left that out. This is WRONG!"

I still do that...

I have to admit I did it a bit during FoTR. "but..but...that's not how Merry and Pippin ACT...they aren't so...but...they are more..."

"where is the poetry. Where is Sam's love for the elves? How can he leave out that. Sam's journey and character development is key to the story!"

Um, I'm a little too invested in Samwise Gamgee. But not in a porny way.

askye, I just noticed your tag. Yaaaaaay!