James casting, good looks (was Lupin casting?)

[sophiamcl <sophiamcl@hotmail.com>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z <lupinesque at y...>" 
<lupinesque at y...> wrote:
 James in the movie 
> seemed about right to me--not unusually tall, but tall enough that 
> one would describe him with that word.

I haven't formed a firm opinion on Jame's height, but I saw Amy's comment as 
a way to bring up a peeve I have not brought up here previously (though it 
may have come up in earlier discussions, I don't know.) James and Lily, but 
particularly James look way too old in PS! Should they not be the age at 
which Harry was a year old? Snape is supposed to be 35-ish (though the 
casting director chose to have him be older, apparently, but let's look at 
canon) at the time Harry comes to Hogwarts. We also know Snape is about 
the same age as Lily and James since they went to school together, give or 
take a couple of years, perhaps. Either way, this means that if Harry's 
parents would have been 35-ish when he first came to Hogwarts, they would 
have been in their early twenties when Harry was born. The actors chosen to 
be James and Lily look considerably more mature to me. Lily looks like she'd 
be in her early thirties, James at least forty. Maybe they made this choice to 
make them match the Snape casting, and perhaps it isn't essential to the 
story how old they were when they had Harry, but....well, like I said--it's a 
peeve with me.

Sophia