Movie Casting Rumors/Parallels I just noticed...

[Laurin York]

Hugh Grant does sound like a good Lockhart.  I'm with
the people who think Christian Bale is too young,
though.  Love him to pieces, but not quite right...

Having just watched the X-Men movie on video, I've got
the guy who played Wolverine stuck in my head now for
Lupin.  (He just looked really good done up as a
wolfie type.)  And I noticed a slew of similarities
between the X-Men world and the Harry Potter world:

1. Mutants and Wizards must hide themselves and their
abilities for fear of "normal" people
2. There are two mutants (Magneto and Xavier) who are
dividing up the bad and good mutants (read: Voldemort
and Dumbledore)
3. The "good" mutant leader runs a school for kids who
are mutants (Hogwarts)
4. Magneto seems to have been a youth during WWII and
suffered at the hands of ignorant non-mutants (Riddle
and his family/orphanage experiences)

I noticed some other things, but those seemed the most
significant.  I thought it was pretty neat.  Plus,
Anna Paquin (Rogue in X-Men) would make an awesome
teenage Hermione...

--Laurin

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