Daniel's age was Re: Assorted CoS matters

[Ali]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "serenadust" <jmmears at c...> wrote:
> 

> Actually, I've been very confused by the fuss over Daniel R.'s age 
> thus far in the movies. IIRC he was 11 years old while shooting 
> PS/SS, and celebrated his 12th birthday in July 2001 (after 
shooting was completed on the first movie).  So far, so good.  
Shooting on CoS began within days of the opening of movie #1.  Daniel 
is still 12 years old during the entire shooting schedule of CoS, 
which concluded sometime in the spring/early summer, correct?  He 
> celebrated his 13th birthday this past July and shooting for PoA 
> begins sometime in the late winter/early spring of 2003 which 
> indicates to me that he will *still* be 13 years old for the 
> majority (if not all) of the shooting schedule for PoA, since he 
> will turn 14 in late July of that year.
> 
> Please tell me whether or not I have the chronology correct here.
> So far, it seems that Daniel R. has been exactly the same age as 
> Harry in each of the first 3 films, and has grown at the same rate 
> as an average boy his age.  Now it's possible that he may be 15 
> instead of 14 for the GoF movie, since we don't yet know when that 
> one will be shot, but there is not a huge amount of difference 
> between 14 and 15 year old boys who are often in the same school 
> year class.
> 
> So where is the problem?
> 
> Jo Serenadust, who will be really embarrassed if she has her dates 
> wrong, but doesn't think so


Jo, don't be embarassed. You are completely right.

I agree with everyone who believes that the press has to come up with 
something bad. Daniel is the right age, and even if the filming 
schedule slipped by a couple of years, I really can't see what the 
problems would be. IMO, if the kids still want to do the films, then 
they should do it, if Daniel can have blue eyes rather than green 
eyes, why can't he be slightly taller than the Harry we all imagine. 
Also, even if they got another actor, what would there be to stop him 
from having a sudden growing spurt and "getting too tall".


Ali, who is now really looking forward to the film in 6 days time 
(and counting!!)