[HPFGU-OTChatter] Book Harry vs. Movie Harry

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sarahlinks14" <sarahlinks14 at yahoo.com>


>I was wondering what other readers of HP
> have experienced.  Have you kept your own versions of the
characters
> or do you picture the movie characters?  Now when I read
fanfic, I
> have a totally different set of images, mostly because the
characters
> are a little bit older.  But I'm interested to hear what other
> readers have to say.


Count me in as one of those who still have the original images in
her head.  If I think about it, I can see Dan Radcliffe, Rupert
Grint and Emma Watson as the characters, but when I'm just
straight reading, it's my interior versions of them that comes to
mind.  My Hermione looks a lot like my own daughter (who looks to
need braces, is an incredible bookworm and a bit of a
know-it-all, is incredibly loyal to the few friends that she has,
and has that bushy, untameable hair)!

I will admit that Alan Rickman does look a LOT like the Snape in
my head except the one in my head has a narrower face and frame
and a slightly more aquiline nose.  Otherwise, pretty much spot
on!  And Richard Harris, oddly enough, WAS my personal impression
of Dumbledore long before I heard he was going to be in the
film... :)  Got to see him in CAMELOT on stage back in the 1980s
and he made a HUGE impression on me...

Bernadette

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival."
-- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963).