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I'm just hoping Alan Rickman finally get's an Oscar nomination, I think he's maybe the best actor alive and working to never get one.

The thing about Rickman is he's such a great Snape, I can't imagine anyone else in the role, but the Snape he portrays is different than the Snape in the books. The book Snape is genuinely wretched and nasty, and he and Harry truly despise each other above all others. Rickman's angle shows him as just kind of an Al Bundy character. It's worked great so far...Snape is still my favorite character in the films...but when the book Snape needs to shine through, so far it hasn't always worked. The Occlumency scenes in OotP played out differently than I envisioned. I'm not sure how Rickman will play the Lightning-Struck Tower, staying true to his established character while still letting the original character come out so that Snape can be believably evil until the end of DH2. I can see him strolling up to the roof and saying "Avada Kedavra" in a bored voice while checking his fingernails.

I felt the same way about Luna. That wasn't the way I pictured Luna at all. But the film character was so great in her own right that it worked fine for me. In a way, those are the only two casting missteps in the entire series, apart from the recasting of Dumbledore, of which nothing needs to be said.