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When comparing books and their movie adaptations, books almost always prove to be better. One of the reasons is that a film does not always manage to convey the same imagery as a book in which emotions are blended with visuals. When reading, one can form a completely different image of a place or a character and have entirely another general feeling of a story. 

When creating a film adaptation, the cast is usually chosen according to the characteristics described in a book. However, the looks are not always so precise. With that in mind, one Vietnamese woman (to her followers known as MsBananaAnna) decided to use artificial intelligence to see what Harry Potter characters would look like based on book descriptions.

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Bored Panda got in touch with the author of this idea to learn more about her and this project. The woman revealed that she's a 28-year-old "nerd" living in Melbourne. She has been a huge "Potterhead" since grade school. "I basically grew up with Harry, Ron, and Hermoine and remember waiting in line at midnight for the release of each book."

"I came up with the idea to recreate the characters when I tried to find some fanworks of Hermione. I watched the movies and though I like Emma Watson, I always thought she was too gorgeous to be Hermione. I couldn't find any renditions of her that I thought were accurate so I ended up making her myself. People seemed to enjoy it so much that I decided to make more characters."

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While some characters look similar to the ones one sees in the movies, others look nothing like them. For MsBananaAnna, Sirius was the one she personally liked the most. "I thought that was plucked straight from my head. Artbreeder can be pretty limiting in what you can do and can be a bit twiddly so not all of the characters came out as I wanted, but I thought Sirius came out as I imagined him! Dark and regally handsome."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sure they give her realistic looking green eyes, while giving Harry those florescent orbs.

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The recreations of Harry Potter characters got a lot of attention on Reddit (here and here) where MsBananaAnna (or, as she calls herself on Reddit, lettuceown) posted them.

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What looks are your favorites? Leave a comment and let us know!

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her name though. 🤦‍♀️ When every other girl has a nice / interesting / exotic name the only Asian girl has the worst most stereotypical name going.

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Jayne Kyra
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Still upset there was not more of him. He works with dragons! Dragons!! He looks handsome in this recreation, too.

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Lucius Malfoy

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Zero
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kinda looks like an adult Tom Felton. Which makes sense of course.

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Ronald Weasley

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Bellatrix Lestrange

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one really reminds me of an actor or actress. I can't really name it? It's like a mixture of famous people I know but I can't tell them apart. SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I forgot that Petunia was blonde. Odd that they wouldn't just make her wear a wig for her scenes.

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Mtg Wolfie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel she was casted fair enough. You want her to look human enough (which this fails at) to be almost polite at first. Until she takes over as dictator.

Nikki
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I Literally LOL and almost woke up the baby!!!!🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

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Good Luckas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Owkengjojdnsbjckfnj I JUST SCROLLED DOWN AND LITERALLY SCREAMED!!! PUT THIS FACE IN A HORROR MOVIE!

j robin estrella
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

she was supposed to look like a toad., I thought this looks like a psychotic leprechaun.

David Blue
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

her teeth are discusting et some toothpaste neverming get some iodine those teeth are so damn dirty

DeNasha. ReNee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This made me scream laugh instantly 😆 I literally only read the comments on this one in attempts to make myself feel a lil less evil for the reaction I had. Tysm this got me over the threshold finally!!

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Sarah Britt
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh great. Just what I need to see before going to sleep. Hello there nightmare fuel.

Marianne
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is quite close to how I imagined her before the movies.

Gur Lempel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't even look at that. Disgusting, toad-like. The REAL villain of the books I swear

DeNasha. ReNee
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The level of psychosis in this depiction is making me so uncomfortable I can't sit still rn.. I've never been so affected by a picture of a.. smile let's just classify it as a smile I guess.. straight "Heeeere's JOHNNY 🪓🪓" vibes but I girl don't even need the axe.

DeNasha. ReNee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🤭😆 wait no..😳😬 you're greatly exaggerating.. right?? Your friend.. s**t YOU please, please confirm this is 98% exaggerated at LEAST!! Maaan I don't usually comment in emojis but I literally couldn't transcribe the reaction I had to this w just words.. oooof.

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Ethan Isbell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can see the toad now they were mentioning!!!!!!! Has no chin😳

french banana
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so accurate to the books, but Imelda Staunton's Umbridge was such a good alternative! I like both designs equally

Zach Brown
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perhaps a bit wide in the mouth, but of course, she was a bit of a toad, both in appearance, and politically. She could use a fly in her hair, I mean a hair bow as she was depicted as wearing. All in all, Definitely one to throw out in a hoard of Centaurs.

Megan Bebla
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No wonder they’re scared of her whenever I see a “10 of the most hated hp characters” I know Voldemort is no.2 and umbridge is 1

Cora Matley
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you, Headmaster, for those kind words of welcome. And how lovely to see all your bright happy faces smiling up at me. [No one smiles] I'm sure we're all going to be very good friends. The Ministry of Magic has always considered the education of young witches and wizard of vital importance. Although each Headmaster has brought something new to this historic school... [Nods to Dumbledore] progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged. Let us preserve what must be preserved, perfect what can be perfected and prune practices that ought to be prohibited. what. A. bitc-oop.

Ashley Wizner
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I first saw this photo I really screamed. I am so glad they did not use this person in the movie or I would have to go to a hospital from seeing that face for to long. Everyones chain reaction should be to scream. SOS IT IS UMBRIGE lol

No Name
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my god! Someone call in a priest! This lady is possessed!

Allex Anderson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry, but that belongs in a horror movie. Art looks absolutely amazing though!!

Mandi Wallar
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like a creepy almost uncanny valley version of Bryce Dallas Howard

DeNasha. ReNee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I dunno who that is & to be perfectly honest I'm already too stunned to imagine, let alone Google & confirm there's a living being that could even pass as a. 5th cousin.. twice removed

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Janeann Beers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She looks like a woman trying to sell you her kids girlscout cookies at a stand in front of the local medical MJ dispensary.

Mary G
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The actress who played her did such an awesome job she totally got me past the fact that her looks were nothing like how I pictured her from the book description. This rendering doesn't either. She looked like my ex-MIL in my imagination.

DeNasha. ReNee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aw man . No further info needed I'm so sorry & equally thrilled for you that there's an ex before MIL.. jeez.

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Denise Buzz
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is still not as unpleasant as I imagined her, but much closely to to the charcater than the movie. Love Imelda but she was too attractive and not nearly sinister enough.

EJN
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nah, she should have been a human version of that slug-like female in 'Monster's Inc', Roz.

DeNasha. ReNee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg this the 2nd comment to say Roz I laughed even harder the 2x & I thank yu for it.

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DeNasha. ReNee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This just lit my heart & soul on 🔥🔥🔥!!! Don't get me wrong I absolutely despised her when they brought her back & promoted her but once she started crumbling like the spackle on my grandma's ceiling I was powerless to feel for her & actually liked her by the time this last season ended I mean when milk breath made her take her wig off??!!!? C'mon..

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i dont think shes ugly, but the yellow tone around her mouth makes me think uncanny valley

DeNasha. ReNee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You are truly either the most skillful bullshitter in the universe or the greatest human being to ever live.. either way you're mfn amazing, sincerely.

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Dayton MooreMonge
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t think is possible for a human to look that terrifying in real life

Lucie St-Aubin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had imagined her much, much uglier, in the book she had mousy brown hair and facial feature of a toad! Ugly witch!

joyous
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh heavens no! This image is slightly crazy but in a benign way. Imelda Staunton brought out a perfect blend of saccharine sweet/ maliciousness.

An Trần
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For a lady as graceful as Umbridge, I don't think her teeth are so yellow as this.

Emblem Bloom
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Holy s**t Uhm Thank god this wasn’t the casting choice Nightmares for life

kiwi_chan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

GAHHHHHHHHHH WHERE IS THE UNSEE BUTTON FTYEGFUSGAIWIERYWQLK IM DYING

Gareth Baus
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That doesn't look like a human, the actual actor actually seems like a more realistic choice.

Robsaint
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like a deranged Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica’s Starbuck)

Frying Pan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's terrifying, almost worse than her personality. Almost.

RedOphelia 13
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If someone smiled at me like that I'd have nightmares for weeks!

GPZ
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All of a sudden I'm wondering if the witch in Hansel & Gretel isn't Dolores Umbridge...

kkathleen517
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope. Nope. I just got done reading the books again and that is not what she looks like. At all. She is supposed to look like a toad and wear a little bow on top her head. And the smile isn't right either!

Caroline Driver
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always imagined her played by Miriam Margoyles, but she was already in the films as Professor Sprout. I'd like to see someone render Umbridge looking like Margoyles, she's a wonderful actress

Lady of the Mountains
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Better than the movie, but the best will always be the picture of her in the chapter headings lol

Madeline Tacher
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who you got the toad like thing down but that is creepy. I wonder what jk was envisioning

GamerC321
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

honestly i gave the finger to her face as soon as i saw the title-

Mr. Clean
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i was just peacefully scrolling, but then literally jumped and made a dolores madrigal squeak

Anjelika
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A toad 🐸 my friends and i call her umb!tch whenver we go into book rants

Ohhhdear
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not toad-like enough imho. And where’s her pink Alice band?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's terrifying... she's terrifying, so happy she's a fictional character

Shay
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More terrifying than Voldemort! Holy smokes!

Hobby Hopper
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's hard to imagine anyone other than Imelda Staunton as Umbridge. Hers was possibly my favorite performance in all the HP movies.

Cindy Melendez
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always got the image of the woman from the Poltergeist movie Zelda Rubinstein

Gautam Balachandran
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spot on. Except for the bow on top of the head. You know, "the fly perched unwisely on the frog? "

Fabio Paolo Barbieri
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dolores should be fat. This lady is scary enough, but her features are too regular, and she is not carrying enough weight.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did the AI make wall-eyed? Was that described in the book? Book 6 isn't my fave so I've not read it enough to remember.((people have already pointed out the description that I wasn't recalling. Kinda don't need multiple comments restating the same thing))

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Gautam Balachandran
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Longer hair. Earring with a fang. More cool, less dorky. Probably got confused with Percy.

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Nicole Weymann
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, sorry, but even before seeing Maggie Smith in that role she was the spitting image for my personal McGonagall.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Forgive me, but she reminds me of an angry pig for reasons I cannot explain.

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Jill Sadler
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriously where are everyones cheeks?! No one is fed in the books apparently. Chiseled jawlines and sunken cheeks.

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