MOVIE: Alicia

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 28031

Ebony wrote:

>The casting of Alicia 
> Spinnet shows that JKR's ideas of the characters and our ideas of 
the 
> characters may be diametrically opposed.  

Or not.  I didn't have much of a mental picture of Alicia or Katie, 
but when I saw the actors I said "perfect!"  (Angelina I did have a 
clear mental picture of, and the actress isn't quite right.  <g>)

Your point is a good one.  Some things about characters' looks might 
be important to JKR, some not.  If they had made this movie before GF 
came out, we might well be saying "Angelina's black?  That's not how 
I pictured her!" but she would be so because JKR had already decided 
she was black.  In other cases, JKR might have told the casting 
director, "go for it, I know what Terence Higgs looks like in my head 
but there's nothing in the books about it, and you can feel free to 
use your own imagination."  

Amy Z