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The actors who played Snape, Sirius, Lupin, etc were all too old in the movies..

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TheHulksPurplePanties · 08/05/2018 06:41

I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Alan Rickman. But I recently started playing the new Harry Potter "Mystery at Hogwarts" game and I came to the realization (because I OBVIOUSLY don't have better things to think about) that Snape should only be 23/24 in this game. He should have been 31 at the start of the Potter series, but Rickman was in late 50's. I know life was difficult in the Potterverse but come-on, a 31 year old does not look 50.

I'm sure the reasoning was that they wanted bigger names in the movies to get more of a draw, but surely there were actors in their 30's who could have played the roles?

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TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 10/05/2018 06:35

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OutsideContextProblem · 10/05/2018 06:46

Yes Dean, Lee and Angelina are all black in the books. I’m happy to have Hermione as black but it does change the feel of Chamber of Secrets (especially) a lot - it makes the racial abuse she gets feel much more severe.

porkiepiesky · 10/05/2018 09:10

Have those who are saying Cursed Child is rubbish actually seen it? It's a play, not a book. It has to be seen.

Yes, I was one of the first to see it.

I thought it was shite. Just didn't feel like Harry Potter to me.

porkiepiesky · 10/05/2018 09:12

Been awhile since I read the books, but didn't he just tell Voldemort about the prophecy with no idea who it could have been about?

Yes but all that means is he was perfectly happy to send an innocent BABY to its death.

LaurieMarlow · 10/05/2018 09:16

I saw The Cursed Child a month ago and thought it was stunning. Off topic I know.

ICantCopeAnymore · 10/05/2018 09:16

Wow, I don't think anyone I've ever come across, and I'm very active in the fandom for various reasons, has ever said that the play was rubbish. Quite the opposite.

I thought it was fantastic - it's very different from reading it as a script and needs to be seen, as Jo has pointed out on many occasion.

porkiepiesky · 10/05/2018 09:21

I don't really like the theatre though so that may explain it. I only went to see it as it was HP, but it just didn't feel like HP to me.

Visually it was lovely, but I thought the plot and the writing were bollocks. I went with two other HP fans and they felt the same.

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TheHulksPurplePanties · 10/05/2018 09:23

Yes but all that means is he was perfectly happy to send an innocent BABY to its death

True, however everyone in the wizarding world seems quite comfortable with violence and death.

I mean, no one seemed bothered that Harry had to carve words into his flesh hundreds of times a day, it was more like "Well that's a perfectly suitable punishment."

Not to mentioned sending a 14 year old to battle a dragon....

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porkiepiesky · 10/05/2018 09:25

I think all that is pretty different from being quite happy to murder an innocent baby.

Nothing will ever convince me that Snape was a nice person Grin. I accept he was a complex character and not evil, but I don't understand all the Snape love at all.

bruffin · 10/05/2018 09:27

I loved cursed child
Ive seen it twice, dd about 20 times and many of dds friends are really obsessed and one has seen it 80 timesShock

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TheHulksPurplePanties · 10/05/2018 09:29

Nothing will ever convince me that Snape was a nice person

Fair enough Grin. Nothing will ever convince me that James wasn't a tosspot who needed a punch in the nose.

Honestly, out of the 4 (not including Lilly), the only really good one was Lupin.

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porkiepiesky · 10/05/2018 09:30

I don't think James was perfect, but out of the two I know who I'd have married.

My brother was an arrogant little shit at fifteen as well, he's 18 now and completely lovely.

ICantCopeAnymore · 10/05/2018 09:31

Snape was vile, abusive and a disgusting bully. I will never understand why people like him.

porkiepiesky · 10/05/2018 09:32

ICantCope thank you - I see I'm not alone!!

AngeloMysterioso · 10/05/2018 09:32

I pictured Sirius a bit like Captain Hook from Once Upon A Time complete with leather outfit and sexy guyliner

The actors who played Snape, Sirius, Lupin, etc were all too old in the movies..
AngeloMysterioso · 10/05/2018 09:34

Also, they cast Ginny before the books where she becomes a badass we’re published, so they were looking for someone to fit the shy, quiet character

porkiepiesky · 10/05/2018 09:36

Santiago Cabrera would've made a good Sirius

ijustwannadance · 10/05/2018 09:57

Yes to Santiago.

SapphireSeptember · 10/05/2018 11:55

Severus wasn't a nice person, but good people aren't always nice. I always think about that when this topic of conversation comes up. I don't necessarily think he was good or evil though, just somewhere in the middle. I think it's because I'm a Hufflepuff, I try and see the good in people.

Agree with James needing a punch in the nose. I'm sure there'd be a queue! There are quite a lot of rabid Severus fans in the world, although I'm not as bad as some people! I'm not even going to mention them, because then you'll Google it and nobody needs to see that!

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TheHulksPurplePanties · 10/05/2018 12:04

I think it's because I'm a Hufflepuff, I try and see the good in people.

I'm Slytherin, so I guess that explains that! LOL! Grin

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LaurieMarlow · 10/05/2018 12:10

Snape had a lot to deal with, in terms of his personal regrets, disappointments, tendency towards self loathing. Plus his role in the wizard of wars was a tough and lonely one.

That came out in his treatment of others and yes, he wasn't a 'nice' person by any stretch. But I love the moment when harry says he was the bravest man he ever knew.

LaurieMarlow · 10/05/2018 12:11

And yeah, James was a tosser. Lupin and Sirius came across as much more likeable.

QuimReaper · 10/05/2018 12:32

I was bitterly disappointed with The Cursed Child when I read the script, but it bothered me a lot less than I expected it to when I saw it on stage as it was beautifully done. It's just a pity the script, plot etc. couldn't have been less... lame.

What I found really strange about the Cursed Child as it was staged was how often they sort of aped the decisions the films had made. For instance, Film Myrtle was nothing like Book Myrtle, but the stage actress more or less just impersonated the film actress, with the baby voice and all the whooping.

QuimReaper · 10/05/2018 12:36

Also, they cast Ginny before the books where she becomes a badass we’re published, so they were looking for someone to fit the shy, quiet character

Makes sense. In any event, casting someone when they're 9 (?) for a 10-12 year job is always going to be fraught with danger. I've never seen Bonnie Wright in anything else, but I suspect she just isn't much of an actor. She simply didn't emote at all, it was a very flat performance. They were pretty lucky really, given that they cast them all so young, that Dan Rad and Rupert Grint got better as the films progressed, and even Eyebrows Watson pulled her socks up by HBP.

OliviaStabler · 10/05/2018 13:10

Have those who are saying Cursed Child is rubbish actually seen it? It's a play, not a book. It has to be seen.

I saw the first part at the theatre and it was so shit, I never went back for the second part even though I had a ticket. And I LOVE Harry Potter.