accio-shitpost:

actually, as a continuation of my ‘cast the marauders as the right ages’ rant, doing that would just highlight how tragic their situation was

like, they were 21 when the first wizarding war ended. when they were 21, lily and james were dead and their young child was an orphan, peter was directly responsible for their deaths and a mass-murderer, sirius was being taken to azkaban for a crime he didn’t commit, and remus was the last one of his friends, as far as he knew, who was alive and free, facing twelve years of poverty and hardship.

and i think casting them as older kind of detracts from that?