[HPFGU-Movie]The age of Harry's parents

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/10/2006 9:29:39 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:


>>I think I brought this up earlier, but I never got back to  it, so now 
I'm mentioning it again... did anyone else think Harry's  parents 
looked older than maybe they should've during the whole Priori  
Incantatem sequence?  My expectation was that they would be the same  
age as they were when they were killed by Voldemort's wand, however,  
especially Harry's dad, seemed quite aged in comparison to his  twenty-
something self when he died.

After seeing this movie for the  4th time, I can say that this point 
still perplexes me.  Am I missing  something?

Lauren<<


I was reading on the HP Lexicon recently about the Potters, and  from what 
JKR has said in various interviews, they got married right out of  Hogwarts (age 
18), then had Harry ONE YEAR LATER (age 19), so they must have  died when 
they were 20, right?  So why did they cast people who were  obviously a decade or 
two OLDER than that??  I dunno.  I guess it's  too late to recast now, but 
honestly, they should look like kids  themselves.   I'm sure they cast Moaning 
Myrtle as an adult so her  appearance would change as little as possible (she 
looked awfully old in CoS  compared to the kids, but not so bad in GoF, I 
thought -- SHE hasn't changed  much, but of course, the kids have).  I imagine 
that's why they cast the  people they did as Harry's parents.  Think how much 
people change in  appearance from age 18-30, especially men.  Their bodies fill 
out from the  scrawny build many of them have as late teens/early twenties (my 
hubby was one  of these), not getting "fat" just maturing as men.

I agree, "James Potter" not only doesn't look that much like  Harry (or like 
Dan, who looks quite different from Harry most of the time --  think about 
it), but he's aged a bunch.  If they're ever going to show him  in a clearer 
shot, they should use Alan Radcliffe as James, since I've heard Dan  looks exactly 
like him except for the cleft in his chin (which he got from his  mother).  
And for the Pensieve scenes where Harry sees the 15 year old  James, it would 
be smartest to have Dan play both parts.  Wonder how  they're going to handle 
that???  It would be fun to see Dan play James --  it would be interesting to 
see what different body language, etc., he uses to  portray a different 
character that's so like Harry but ISN'T Harry!  

Lynda AKA "Abraxan"

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