John Cleese is in talks over playing a ghost.

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 3916

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Denise Rogers" <gypsycaine at y...> 
wrote:
> Oh, ack.  Forgive me!  It's just I can see him playing Don and 
chasing windmills.....
> 
> You are completely right!
>   > >John Cleese is in talks over playing a ghost.
>   > >YES!!! Dances.  I do think he'll make the perfect Sir 
C.~!!!!!!!
> 
> 
>   > Oh, I thought he'd make a great Nearly Headless Nick.
>   > 
>   > Lori
> 
>   I'm with you, Lori.  Isn't it not until CoS that Sir Cadogan
shows 
>   up?  I just finished rereading SS, and I don't remember him in 
>   there.  Don't they first meet him when looking for Trelawney's 
>   class?  Also, I seem to recall Sir C being rather short and maybe 
>   stocky.  Cleese would be a tad tall, don't you think?  To me the 
only 
>   ghost he really seems right for is N.H.Nick.  
> 
>   Kelley
> 
I agree with you. And since JKR loves Monty Python, here's a couple
of 
fun cameos: Eric Idle for Sir Cadogan, and Michael Palin for
Professor 
Binns.