IT’S THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL: Sandra Miesel writes. I note that I have no opinion of most of these actors, but would desperately love to see Laurence Harvey’s Lupin.

Since you linked that hilarious HARRY POTTER parody the other day, maybe you’d like to post this one that my son Peter and I made up.

LOOK BACK IN AZKABAN

What if the charcters in HP III were played by stars of the British realist films of the 70s, reduced by cgi in size and age to fit? And, of course, brought back from the dead,

HARRY: Dirk Borgarde

HERMIONE: Rita Tushingham

RON: Tom Courtenay

MALFOY: Terrence Stamp

THE DURSLEYS: Richard Burton and Claire Bloom with Albert Finney

AUNT MARGE: Mary Ure

DUMBLEDORE: Richard Harris

MCGONIGAL: Vivien Merchant

SNAPE: James Mason

HAGRID: Oliver Reed

TRELAWNEY: Simone Signoret

LUPIN: Laurence Harvey

MINISTER OF MAGIC: Malcolm McDowell

SIRIUS BLACK: Alan Bates

PETER PETTIGREW: Michael Caine