Crouch and Karkaroff: Fun With Casting

[a_rude_mechanical]

I suggested Scottish actor Peter Mullan as a choice for Barty 
Crouch, Sr.

GulPlum responded,

"Barty Sr. is *considerably* older than that. Don't forget that he 
was 
considered for MOM up against Fudge, and Junior was an adult at the 
time of 
his incarceration, which was 12 years previously. In other words, 
Senior 
should be more or less Fudge's contemporary."

I don't think that's necessarily true.  First of all, when Harry 
looks in the pensieve in GoF and sees Crouch, Jr, the boy is in 
his "late teens."  Crouch Sr. is described thus: "Crouch's hair was 
dark, his face was much less lined, he looked fit and alert." (Chp. 
30, GoF.)  If this all took place roughly 10-12 year before, we can 
deduce two things: one, a Crouch Sr that is around 50 years of age 
(at time of GoF)could very easily be the father of a man that would 
be in his early 30s; two, Crouch can't be TOO old in GoF if the 
decade previously he was still a man in his prime.

Elisabeth