Snape's age, JKR's killing everybody, etc.

[Maya Crabtree]

No: HPFGUIDX 8048


>Someone wrote:
>"Maybe I'm being naive, but let's not forget that she writed for
>children,


ah!!! I can't believe myself. WRITED? WRITED?  WROTE. Where's my English
pride??? ;-)
Must be all the late night e-mailing...:-)


(and now to the issue at hand..;-)  : )

>  The books as someone else wrote won't become Horror
>Films.  If there are numerous deaths it doesn't mean that the story
>is going to be reduced to a violent bloody massacre.
>
>I think this is what Maya was trying to say.  Perhaps it wasn't
>though.
>


It's close, Scott. Thanks. :-) I did explain myself though in my reply to
Penny's e-mail, so I suppose you'd have read it by now...;-) hope it's
clearer.

Charmain wrote:

>The older characters, IMO are probably more likely to get killed off.
>I don't see Dumbledore dying until VII or the very end of VI at
>least, because he's too important to the plot and structure of the
>series. Though I do suspect he will die, because they're always
>talking about how old he is, and the mentor dies quite frequently
>too.


;-) I feel that I'm always behind. I've only been mailing for 3 days, but
nearly always after writing a new reply, I read on and see that someone';s
already exprssed a very similar opinion before me...

Stephanie wrote:

>I have a question, i read somewhere, maybe on this list maybe not, that
>someone assumed sirius, lupin, snape, etc. were about 43.  This makes no
>sense to me, bc that would make Lily around 30 when she had Harry.  I
always
>assumed, that they got married in their early twenties, or even right after
>they graduated Hogwarts.  It would make sense that the wedding would
happen,
>Harry would be born, and that would be about the time things started going
>really awry,
> Anyways, I
>always assumed Sirius and co to be younger than that, more like about 35,


Well, since I only read each book twice, I don't remember everything. So I
can't be sure. however, I do rmember a couple of months ago, when they had
just started anouncing th cast for the film production, that they wrote (it
was a site in hebrew) somehting like:
"In the role of the Proffessor Snape we will be seeing Alan Rickman.
Originally Tim Roth was cast for this role but for reasons we do not know as
yet, they found a substitute. Also, Alan Rickman's age is better suited for
the 40 year old Prof. Snape".

So I wonder what this estination was based upon? I mean, I like both actors,
and am vaguely femiliar with Rickman's age, (haven't a clue what Roth's age
is exactly) - but even if Snape WERE 40 - I don't see that one would be more
suitable than the other as far as their age appears on their faces.

Maya