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?
“luna had decorated her bedroom ceiling with five beautifully painted faces: harry, ron, hermione, ginny, and neville. they were not moving as the portraits at hogwarts moved, but there was a certain magic about them all the same: harry thought they breathed. what appeared to be fine golden chains wove around the pictures, linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, harry realized that the chains were actually one word, repeated a thousand times in golden ink: friends … friends … friends …”
breaking news: harry potter has quit his job as an auror!
stating that ‘i have no idea why i thought that was a good idea, holy shit’, potter has since relocated to diagon alley and reopened florean fortescue’s ice cream parlour. in a comment, potter said ‘yeah. yeah, this seems more like it’ and added ‘i mean, he gave me ice cream that one time. loved that guy.’
the moon is beautiful 