Jeff Hordley as Sirius??? Noooooooo!!!!

[lyorkus at yahoo.com]

Have no idea who Jeff Hordley is, but Gabriel Byrne would be dead 
sexy as Sirius!  Patrick Stewart as Moody though...I'd be so sad to 
have his appearance ruined so he could look right!  I think I read 
something on the list a long while back where someone said 
Christopher Lloyd for Moody and ever since then I've thought YES YES 
YES!  Christopher Lloyd!

Also agree about Empire of the Sun.  Amazing, amazing movie.  But it 
wouldn't mean that Spielberg could do HP...just not a good match.  
And I hope Columbus doesn't bollix it up.  For my money, when they 
start making subsequent HP movies (esp. PoA and GoF) I hope they get 
someone to direct like Tim Burton, who would probably add a certain 
dark quality that starts to creep in there.  Columbus could probably 
handle CoS if he is still interested; what with Lockhart and all it's 
very fluffy most of the way through, and Dobby and all.  Doesn't 
really start to get dark until very close to the end, when multiple 
people are in the hospital wing petrified and then Ginny goes 
missing...but I digress.

I agree with someone who said they should have gotten an older kid to 
play Ron so that he'd be tall enough.  And will Dean be tall?  I 
mean, in the book, when they're sorted, it says that Dean is even 
taller than Ron, which implies that he's pretty darn big for an 
eleven year old.  Anyway, since it takes some time to make movies 
(and in some cases for JKR to write her books!) they will probably be 
making casting changes for the kids over the course of the movie, 
with the possible exception of Harry.  They might want to maintain 
consistency there.  So maybe we'll get a better looking Ron and 
Hermione in the future.

--Laurin