Ok....thanks Bammo....though you didn't answer my question on where "Wotcher" came from....
and I just want to share:
ONE PART OF MY DREAM HAS COME TRUE:
*NEWS FLASH* JOHN WILLIAMS IS DOING THE SCORE FOR "DEATHLY HALLOWS'!!! It's been confirmed on Aint It Cool News....he gave a talk at Berkshire Uni and basically confirmed it.
I had a supreme geek moment and literally jumped up and down reading this today.....I figured that since David Yates is confirmed for Film 6 and Yate's composer is the esteemed Mr. Hooper....(nd all around decent bloke, but nothing brilliant..he had some inspired flashes in OOTP though..such as the Possession scene at the end...) Williams thought that he'd better rush to get his paws on Film 7 before Hooper or someone else claimed it. Really, there are only 2 people IMO worthy to do the music for DH..Williams, and failing that, Howard Shore. Ennio Morricone would have done a fantastic job if he were still with us but sadly he isn't, and Hans Zimmer could have done a passable job, BUT...
it's not just that at 75 Mr Williams in his dotage is still better than most people out there,-- (consider his "throwaway" scores: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade--specifically the Grail Theme; Jurassic Park; Hook; War of the Worlds; Superman; the themes for Tom Riddle in the first 2 HP fims, as well as the Sirius Black theme; these, IMO, are his "fragments" and "lesser" work, but oh, how great!) --he "made" the HP Brand. The first 3 films are his and the Films 4 and 5 have a token nod to his work, out of the composers' respect. For him not to comer back and "claim" what he begun would be unthinkable.
With him doing the scores for Indy 4 (due out next yr--forget that the title and closing cues will likely be the same, just sitting in a theater listening to a CONTEMPORY RECORDING SESSION of him conducting that theme--the throught is already sending a corkscrew up my spine) and Spielberg's "Lincoln" in 2009, and now DH in 2010 to look forward to, it will be a wonderful time for film music. I can't help feeling a little sad though. The man *is* 75....and while he is in great shape, he'll be close to 80 composing for DH. I can't help feeling we'll be experiencing the last of his great work. Hopefully he'll be like Christopher Lee but you never know.
I can hear it now...Mr Williams, Sir, we *NEED* a motif for Snape (just as there was sort of one for Sirius in POA), something that'llmake you weep as he dies; we need a rousing score for the Battle of Hogwarts; we need a Ginny/"family"/"love"/"Death" theme to be played alternately when a) Harry sees the Doe (oh wait, that's Snape's theme!); when Dobby dies; when Harry walks through the forest to his "death" (I "heard" a JW score through that whole soggy chapter!), and a more lyrical, poetic alternate of that for the Epilogue; we need to retun to the great tragic choral work he did so well in Star Wars, esp in TPM and ROTS....oh wait, I'm geeking out.....just happy...(goes off to put my JW Compilation on the headphones)