[HPforGrownups] Re: Perceptions

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 6351

coriolan at worldnet.att.net wrote:

> We will no longer be permitted to imagine Snape as we please - we
> will be compelled to fantasize about Alan Rickman, and draw
> irrelevant comparisons to Pride and Prejudice and Die Hard.

Caius, Caius, Caius. Clearly you are no hormonally motivated idol chaser.
"Sense and Sensibility," not "Pride and Prejudice."

I agree that forced imaginings are unfortunate--one reason I won't watch any
music videos--but I think the casting, at least, has been done well. Snape
as I pictured him already "felt" like Alan Rickman (more like the Sherriff
of Nottingham than your selections, I might add), and McGonagall already
"felt" like Maggie Smith. So perhaps it will not be so terrible as you
think, this prison of the mind a hit movie will lock us in...? (she hopes,
because she knows damn well she's going to have to go see the movie)

--Amanda, ambivalent