Ewan as Lupin

[Wanda Sherratt]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Christina Gross <changeling707 at l...> wrote:
> Much as I love Alan Rickman, he was by no stretch of imagination 33 
in
> the movie and they will never make me believe that he and Ewan
> McGregor were in the same year at Hogwarts (or not really them, 
well,
> you know what I mean). But there's the horrible suspicion creeping 
up
> at me that the reference to the roots of Snape's hatred for Harry 
and
> James was left out on purpose in the PS/SS movie because they are
> going to change that part of the story to allow for the age
> difference, if McGregor really were to play Lupin. 
> Would Ms. Rowling agree to that?

I know JKR wanted Alan Rickman for the part of Snape, but I can't 
believe she would have gone along with that degree of rewriting just 
to get him.  This whole story is built on people's connections with 
each other - Snape, James, Lupin, Black, Pettigrew - you can't take 
Snape out of the equation without really messing up the plot.  I think 
a better way of doing it would be to be rather vague about the age of 
Harry's parents.  In the book they're very young when they die, but is 
that strictly necessary?  Why not make them 28 or so when Harry is 
born; that would make Snape about 40 when Harry gets to Hogwarts, and 
older actors could be cast for the other characters who are his 
contemporaries.  So Voldemort had a few more years to tyrannize over 
the wizard world, Snape was a Deatheater for a bit longer - I don't 
see that that matters all that much.  It isn't necessary to explain 
what James, Lily and the others were doing for the extra intervening 
years; we'll just assume that life was going on as usual.  

Wanda