> > > The kids really need to be replaced. They are approaching the creation of a real dissonance between the books and the films because of the age of the actors.
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> > Eh? What? Weren't the kids basically the same age as the book characters when they were filming this?
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> I suppose I should have said 'seeming age'. The kids seem like teenagers for the newest, and they are not in the books, if I remember right. But this is a bigger issue for other people than it is for me. I had a discussion about just this topic while I was at work tonight, so I thought about it when I read your post.

Actually by the third book they were supposed to be 13, so I guess it depends on how old you think they look. But they *are* supposed to be in their early teens for this one.