age vs looks

[sophiamcl]

I may be veering slightly of the age vs. looks discussion, but I'd just like to 
point out that there's more to the trio than looks. They weren't chosen solely 
for their looks to play the parts. Rupert doesn't look like Ron if compared to 
canon description, neither does Dan. Emma is WAY too pretty to play 
Hermione. Yet, they come across to me, and many others with me, as Harry 
and Ron, not because of their faces, but what they project. (I haven't made 
up my mind about Emma yet. She was Hermione-ish in PS, but I didn't get 
what she--or Columbus--was up to with her part in CoS, if anything. But 
that's beside the point I'm trying to make.) I understand that ageing can be a 
concern for fans and producers because of the particular circumstances 
governing the HP-franchise, but as many of you have pointed out--"age isn't 
everything" in this case. It's not just the trios' looks that determine whether 
they will seem believable in their parts in the future, since there are evidently 
other qualities that got them the parts in the first place. (Though we may 
disagree on what those qualities are.)

Sophia