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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."

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"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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Cody
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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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Ginevra Weasley

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

Not too bad, I don’t think she was casted well in the movies anyways.

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

I agree but I think a lot of why I feel that way is because book Ginny was so, so much better than movie Ginny. They took away so much of what really made her a great character in the books. (Although I will always feel that Rowling forced the relationship between Harry and Ginny just to be contrary to expectations!)

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

This AI does terrible job on freckles. I don't know anyone with freckles that look like these.

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

I absolutely love this Ginny. My only complaint about the Ginny in the movies though is that there just wasn’t much of her in them

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

Beautiful, intelligent, wilful, not realizing how lovely she is because of a shower of freckles. Much better than the girl in the movies. In fact, pretty much Ginny as I wanted her to be.

Rozah Skizzer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, bonnie is also not how i imagined her to look like either. She was supposed to be real prettyy even slytheryn guys had started to gossip about her beauty. But there wa smore to her then her pretty face, in the movie they didnt let her have any scenes, all of a sudden harry fell in love eith her. It came out of the blue. She didt seem ans special and they didnt have many moments together that shiwed what led hary to like her. She was just an ok looking girl who played quidditch ans was eons little sis in the movies

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Ozymandias73
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think they used the same freckle design on all the Weasleys

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

And it doesn’t even look like freckles. It looks like dirt. Freckles are cute. These are not cute.

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

Looks like she has some seriously contagious skin rash going on there

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

i think younger bonnie wright was good, but as she grew up she didn't really look like ginny should have

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

Wouldn't those kind of freckles be all over her neck as well?

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

One of the problems with the later movies was Ginny and Harry have zero chemistry. The actress was good in Chamber of Secrets. But in Half Blood Prince she's supposed to be fun and popular but she has the personality of a dead moth.

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

I think she was cast well for the movies. Casted is not a real word.

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

Those look more like horrible zit scars and freckles… I think they need to clean that pic up a bit

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

I can definitely she Harry falling for this version as she gets older but don't think the freckles are right at all. I always pictured her to have cute cheek freckles which she grew prettily into as she grew up

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

Nope. The freckles here are way too large and dark. Otherwise, pretty good.

Merrilyn Wasson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Overdoes the freckles. They do not always accompany red/auburn hair.

Maya Freeman
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They did the weasely's bad in this post, most were casted well in the movies though

Joshua Clinard
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is terrible. It looks like she's got jaundic. Her face tone is very wrong. Bonnie Wright was a perfect Ginny to me.

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

This is the only one I don’t think looks near right, and I’m saying that as a Ginny lover.

Brenard
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Miya Bennett
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She look like she goin through depression. Dats how you know dis da real version

Giselle Kurbatova
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if I was harry and ginny looked like this I wouldn't wait 'til sixth year to date her lol

Korby McCheese
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If she acted outgoing and looked like this, ginny would have been my favorite move charecter

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

She didn’t have such a pimply face…I know she had freckles but PLEASE!

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

Im not sure why but the more i look the more female characters here seem alike like sisters and they also are like in moovie

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

I like Bonnie Wright’s acting, and she makes a great Ginny -whether or not she actually got any screen time- but I don’t think she looks like how Ginny’s described.

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

Not bad, this one. My mind made her face a bit rounder and her eyes hazel, but that might just be me. The freckles look fake though.

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

I was always wondering why the weaslys had no freckles

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

the freckles are not as realistic as they could be tho

DDmaybeandor
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2 years ago

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Is this right? Why did I think it was just Jenny?

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

Ginevra Molly Weasley officially. They just called her Ginny for short.

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Cho Chang

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Rabbit Carrot
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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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Charlie Weasley

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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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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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Kimberley McMillan
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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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Bill Weasley

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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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Minerva Mcgonagall

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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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Pansy Parkinson

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Lil' Roo
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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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Viktor Krum

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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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