Growing Dan/ Hermione's image - was: streaking Draco & thoughts/next movie

[lorelei3dg]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "cgahnstrm" 
<christin.gahnstrom at t...> wrote:
> 
 
> Dan is most definently not small for his age, for 
> a 12-year-old (in CoS) he was huge. (Maybe not very tall, but 
> mature).
> <snip>
> And also, how could the filmmakers possibly have predicted Dan 
> would start growing so early? (Although casting a 14-year-old 
> Tom Felton for SS/PS wasn't very clever imo. He sure looks his 
> age now, even if he didn't then.)
> 
> Christin


Interestingly, I've had no problem with the relative maturity of the 
actors in the HP films. Maybe it's because I teach in a Middle 
School, where most students are between 11 and 14 years old, and I 
see amazing variation in maturity among students of the same age. In 
one classroom I see students who probably could order a beer without 
being carded, alongside children who can still order from the kiddie 
menu. For example, one of my (female!) students reached six feet in 
height last year at age 12, whereas her male best friend was barely 
5' 2". I suppose it helps me accept the screen images at face value.

To also refer to another thread (#10295 and #10297) about Hermione's 
appearance in the films: I've had similar discussions with people who 
don't understand how an 18-year-old Viktor Krum would be interested 
in a 14-year-old Hermione, especially given (in their words) a 
relative lack of physical maturity in Emma Watson. Whereas these 
people feel that Emma won't be able to pull this off, I counter that 
I see pairings like this all the time at my school (whether or not 
that's a good thing is a different matter!); plus, now the PoA film 
has set the stage for Hermione to believably attract Krum's attention 
in the GoF film. Does this depart from Book!Hermione? Definitely. But 
I can live with it.