FANTASY casting...

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 170641

One member of the Potterverse who has always struck me as being 
akin to Long John Silver from Treasure Island is Alastor Moody.

Give Mad-Eye a parrot on his shoulder and he'd be Master Silver's 
twin, IMO.

The perfect portrayal, if a little over the top, but then Long John 
is a character in the book too who is very much larger than life 
and needs to be portrayed, if at all, by someone who is overacting, 
is Robert Newton from the 1950 version.

I could not recall his name t'other day so I cribbed and looked 
at IMDB. Here's the relevant link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043067/

Goddlefrood, who always looks forward every year to International 
Talk Like a Pirate Day on 19th September. Some of the Judges here 
do not have such eager anticipation though :-?