[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Ewan as Lupin

[Christina Gross]

On Sat, 01 Dec 2001 17:36:11 -0000, "Wanda Sherratt"
<sherratt at mediaone.net> wrote:

>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 agree. Didn't Rowling say she thought about Alan Rickman while she
was writing and not just when the movie started to take shape and
casting decisions had to be made? Rickman would have been the right
age back then. 

>  I think 
>a better way of doing it would be to be rather vague about the age of 
>Harry's parents.  

I don't have a problem with that. I always pictured Sirius, Lupin,
Snape and Harry's parents, had they lived, in their late thirties or
early forties anyway. I can also pretend that Alan Rickman is actually
ten years younger, unless they cast somebody like Ewan McGregor and
expect me to believe that they are the same age. I like the idea of
Snape looking older because of what he has been through as a Death
Eater and spy, but it doesn't really work as an explanation why he
looks so much older than his former classmates. Sirius had Azkaban to
live with and Lupin's life is a mess because he's a werewolf. 

Best
Christina

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