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Woman Shows How “Harry Potter” Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics)
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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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#1
Sirius Black
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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#2
Fleur Delacour
#3
Nymphadora Tonks
"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."
#4
Severus Snape
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."
#6
Lily Potter
#7
Narcissa Malfoy
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.
What looks are your favorites? Leave a comment and let us know!
#8
Argus Filch
#9
Ginevra Weasley
Glittery Panda 2 years ago
Not too bad, I don’t think she was casted well in the movies anyways.
#10
Cho Chang
Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago (edited)
Her name though. 🤦♀️ When every other girl has a nice / interesting / exotic name the only Asian girl has the worst most stereotypical name going.
#11
Charlie Weasley
Jayne Kyra 2 years ago
Still upset there was not more of him. He works with dragons! Dragons!! He looks handsome in this recreation, too.
#12
Lucius Malfoy
#13
Hermione Granger
#14
Remus Lupin
#15
Harry Potter
#16
Luna Lovegood
#17
Draco Malfoy
#18
Neville Longbottom
#19
Fred And George Weasley
#20
Lord Voldemort
#21
James Potter
#22
Ronald Weasley
TheLilacButterfly 2 years ago
those eyes are boring into my soul please stop smiling like that ron!
#23
Bellatrix Lestrange
#24
Vernon Dursley
#25
Cedric Diggory
#26
Dudley Dursley
#27
Petunia Dursley
#28
Dolores Umbridge
#29
Peter Pettigrew
#30
Merope Riddle (Voldemort's Mother)
Kimberley McMillan 2 years ago (edited)
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))
#31
Bill Weasley
Gautam Balachandran 2 years ago
Longer hair. Earring with a fang. More cool, less dorky. Probably got confused with Percy.
#32
Minerva Mcgonagall
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
No, sorry, but even before seeing Maggie Smith in that role she was the spitting image for my personal McGonagall.
#33
Pansy Parkinson
#34
Gilderoy Lockhart
#35
Viktor Krum
Jill Sadler 2 years ago
Seriously where are everyones cheeks?! No one is fed in the books apparently. Chiseled jawlines and sunken cheeks.
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Holly Maness 2 years ago
So no Dumbledore, Molly, Arthur, or Percy, but we get Voldemort’s mom??
Riley Escobar 2 years ago
So we put Voldemort mom but not, the man with the half moon spectacles
jessica r 2 years ago
Nice try, but I don't buy it. Not all sisters look alike, but Lily and Petunia have nothing in common. And Harry is supposed to have his mothers eyes.
John Baker 2 years ago
Most of them look too young, and they mostly seem built on the same two or three basic face shapes.
Ray Martin 2 years ago
I really wish these were not described as being created by A.I, because artificial intelligence is not what created these. They're not much more than an identikit from a selection of features, and put together by a simple algorithm. That's why most of them look very similar.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I thought the movie casting was very well done. And don't nobody do crazy like Helena Bonham Carter!
Martha Meyer 2 years ago
Everyone's eyes are either too big or have an unnatural colour. Or both.
Patti Vance 2 years ago
most of these are too thin or too chunky to be believable as the characters. and, it seems AI has a thing for narrow/pointy chins. but, a couple of them were pretty good.
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Everyone had a sharp chin? So no one in that whole universe was square jawed?
Russell Romick 2 years ago
How do any of these make the story any better? You couldn't get actors that look like this so the ones we know already fit better.
Bettina Jansen 2 years ago
That quickly got boring, unfortunately. Also, it seems that the AI used to make the faces has a block on anything that would make the characters truly ugly and it seems that the artist read the books quite a long time ago and not as often or as well as they watched the films (Voldemort without the red eyes ? Brown haired V. Dursley ?)
Vladimíra Matejová 2 years ago
i dont know i am not much impressed. voldy is missing red eyes, wormtail looks like a mutant. some of these are just a fantasy of the author or they are just adjusted versions of the film
Tigran Sargsyan 2 years ago
Judging by the striking resemblance between these renditions and the actors, I suppose the AI was queried with charecter names and not only descriptions, so it rendered what it's learned about these characters from its source dataset imagery.
Mine Truly 2 years ago
That uncomfortable moment when you realize there were absolutely no Black characters.
Cynthia Kramer 2 years ago
Waste of time. Her AI images are no more "authoritative" than every reader's imagination or the way the characters were cast for the movies.
Cynthia Kramer 2 years ago
Waste of time. Her visions of what her AI is programmed to think they look like any more than every person who read the books imagination or the movie casting.
Megan Pawlak 2 years ago
I think MANY in the wizarding world aren’t living the high life. And a LOT of characters are described as gaunt or gnarled, which doesn’t lend to plump cheeks. The Vernon and Dudley are spot on though! Mrs, Weasley, we’re she featured, would have been plump. She described MANY times as being rounder and formidable. Haha
Buzz Covington 2 years ago
Hey! I know... Hows about we run photos of the actors through five filters and call it a day, huh?
Paarth Arha 2 years ago
It rather look like “morons” Thanks to the director 🤠 for choosing the best cast , To make the potter charcters fiil the bill of this roles
Marley Nachi 2 years ago
Some of them look the same as the movie (similar enough) and chances are some of the actors were cast for their tallent as opposed to looking exactly like the characters. I know that Dan Radcliff had an alergic reaction, which is why they didn't use contacts. Though, I did wonder why they didn't just chance his eye colour in post production. p.s.I think these are AI created images, which is why Tonk's 'shaved head' look look like a comb back style
Firefoxy3121 2 years ago
The movies messed up hermione as the main one I remember. She was supposed to be pretty much average, not too pretty, not too ugly. They went to the top end of the scale on some and only a few characters look how they should
Terry Godson 2 years ago
Regardless how they actually looked, we grew up with them, the existing cast
Douglas Mock 2 years ago
You do understand that you're NOT an artist if the art is by an AI - right?
Merrilyn Wasson 1 year ago
Impressed! The painter did not set out to make juvenile 'collectors cards ' of every character. She chose an interesting selection and her skill is remarkable, whether we agree of not with the interpretation.
Mike Orenstein 1 year ago
I'd say the movies did an exceptional job casting actors, applying makeup to be consistent with the book descriptions of the characters.
Mike Orenstein 1 year ago
I'd say the movies did justice to the book descriptions of the characters.... quite impressed.
Chris Munroe-Martyn 1 year ago
Most of these are pretty dam horrible looking so I. Glad they went the route they did
Idiotic Bees 1 year ago
they were pretty good! they weren't exactly what i was thinking because they all do look like they need some McDonalds or Whataburger, but i do love the outcome! :)
Nieda Giles 1 year ago
Some of the people chosen to play the characters were pretty good picks if you just deprive them of bread for a month it would be spot on
Cathy Jo Baker 1 year ago
They all look way too young, and emaciated. I'm fine with how the movie portrayed them all!
Steve Zagieboylo 2 years ago
Meh. The only one that is clearly more accurate than the movie casting is Hermione, who is supposed to have buck teeth and be a little homely, but they accidentally cast a girl who grew up to be one of the most beautiful women of all time. In the books, it is Ginny who is stunningly beautiful, so I guess this artist improved on that one slightly, but still didn't get there. The artist needs to study true redheads to learn how freckles are really distributed.
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Robert Deltorik 2 years ago
This is just absurd and dumb, these characters still look like they come out of a water damaged comic strip.
Scourge McCloud 2 years ago
These are pretty close to what I saw in my head in 5th grade. It's like the artist is living inside my mind o.o
Corina Hill 2 years ago
You could poke someone’s eye out with most of the chins in these drawings. Why does almost everyone have the same jawline?
Cathy Scott 2 years ago
Fleur, Cho, and Luna were the only ones who looked like their real characters. The others, not so much. Sorry.
Valerie Witter 2 years ago
Some of these were so bad they were ridiculous. She wasted her time. I read the books too and when I saw the first movie I was blown away by how closely all the actors fit their parts.
Shelley Thibeau 2 years ago
like on Halloween or the Wizard of OZ they r all the same thing thin faced
Patricia Henderson 2 years ago
I wish they did a side by side of the character rendering and the casted actor.
Cindy Caruso 2 years ago
None of these look like what my mind pictured when I read the books. And yes I read them long before I ever saw the movies. These are completely unrealistic and what's with the weird eyes and malnourished look? Just weird
Hans Van Rooyen 2 years ago
A bit weird this....but the movies largely nailed it? Also did I miss a book that has detailed character descriptions?
Kyle Urbin 2 years ago
The reason mad eye moody isn't on here is because it's embarrassing how bad a job they did
Jason Marin 2 years ago
She should have add all of the other characters. Hagrid, Dumbledore, Trelawny, etc.
Jesse Ellyson 2 years ago
According to the book descriptions? No, according to this artist's interpretations. Some of them are pretty good. Some, not so much
Israel Martinez 2 years ago
Most of these were just like the movies .. the rest weren't too disappointing ... if I was disappointed, it would have been with the change in storylines, but not with descriptions of characters ...
Buzz Anderson 2 years ago
Despite everyone's criticism I'd say the producers did a fairly good job of finding people to look like the books. AND this is just ONE person's idea of how they should look according to descriptions in the book.
Fabio Paolo Barbieri 2 years ago
I liked almost all of them (Gilderoy is too handsome, and he should have a weak chin). I don't understand why everyone is critical.
SB 2 years ago
All y'all are rude, for every complement there 25 people complaining about something rather than enjoying the art this person created for us to enjoy and discuss. Yeah everyone expects a few naysayers and hecklers but most of you people are just down right aweful. Try being nice and maybe spend as much time and energy this project took into something this creative even one time in your life. Whoever the artist is, major props, yeah a few main people are missing but I'm sure you have your reason and I give props for the mad effort this must have taken.
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Eris Ea 2 years ago
This is age shaming, the older characters are too young in this...... It's like Sirius should be older.... Harry's parents were at least middle 20 when he was born and after that 11 years so it's fine to Severus, Sirius, Remus, Petigeew the Weasley family be almost in their 40's
Holly Maness 2 years ago
So no Dumbledore, Molly, Arthur, or Percy, but we get Voldemort’s mom??
Riley Escobar 2 years ago
So we put Voldemort mom but not, the man with the half moon spectacles
jessica r 2 years ago
Nice try, but I don't buy it. Not all sisters look alike, but Lily and Petunia have nothing in common. And Harry is supposed to have his mothers eyes.
John Baker 2 years ago
Most of them look too young, and they mostly seem built on the same two or three basic face shapes.
Ray Martin 2 years ago
I really wish these were not described as being created by A.I, because artificial intelligence is not what created these. They're not much more than an identikit from a selection of features, and put together by a simple algorithm. That's why most of them look very similar.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I thought the movie casting was very well done. And don't nobody do crazy like Helena Bonham Carter!
Martha Meyer 2 years ago
Everyone's eyes are either too big or have an unnatural colour. Or both.
Patti Vance 2 years ago
most of these are too thin or too chunky to be believable as the characters. and, it seems AI has a thing for narrow/pointy chins. but, a couple of them were pretty good.
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Everyone had a sharp chin? So no one in that whole universe was square jawed?
Russell Romick 2 years ago
How do any of these make the story any better? You couldn't get actors that look like this so the ones we know already fit better.
Bettina Jansen 2 years ago
That quickly got boring, unfortunately. Also, it seems that the AI used to make the faces has a block on anything that would make the characters truly ugly and it seems that the artist read the books quite a long time ago and not as often or as well as they watched the films (Voldemort without the red eyes ? Brown haired V. Dursley ?)
Vladimíra Matejová 2 years ago
i dont know i am not much impressed. voldy is missing red eyes, wormtail looks like a mutant. some of these are just a fantasy of the author or they are just adjusted versions of the film
Tigran Sargsyan 2 years ago
Judging by the striking resemblance between these renditions and the actors, I suppose the AI was queried with charecter names and not only descriptions, so it rendered what it's learned about these characters from its source dataset imagery.
Mine Truly 2 years ago
That uncomfortable moment when you realize there were absolutely no Black characters.
Cynthia Kramer 2 years ago
Waste of time. Her AI images are no more "authoritative" than every reader's imagination or the way the characters were cast for the movies.
Cynthia Kramer 2 years ago
Waste of time. Her visions of what her AI is programmed to think they look like any more than every person who read the books imagination or the movie casting.
Megan Pawlak 2 years ago
I think MANY in the wizarding world aren’t living the high life. And a LOT of characters are described as gaunt or gnarled, which doesn’t lend to plump cheeks. The Vernon and Dudley are spot on though! Mrs, Weasley, we’re she featured, would have been plump. She described MANY times as being rounder and formidable. Haha
Buzz Covington 2 years ago
Hey! I know... Hows about we run photos of the actors through five filters and call it a day, huh?
Paarth Arha 2 years ago
It rather look like “morons” Thanks to the director 🤠 for choosing the best cast , To make the potter charcters fiil the bill of this roles
Marley Nachi 2 years ago
Some of them look the same as the movie (similar enough) and chances are some of the actors were cast for their tallent as opposed to looking exactly like the characters. I know that Dan Radcliff had an alergic reaction, which is why they didn't use contacts. Though, I did wonder why they didn't just chance his eye colour in post production. p.s.I think these are AI created images, which is why Tonk's 'shaved head' look look like a comb back style
Firefoxy3121 2 years ago
The movies messed up hermione as the main one I remember. She was supposed to be pretty much average, not too pretty, not too ugly. They went to the top end of the scale on some and only a few characters look how they should
Terry Godson 2 years ago
Regardless how they actually looked, we grew up with them, the existing cast
Douglas Mock 2 years ago
You do understand that you're NOT an artist if the art is by an AI - right?
Merrilyn Wasson 1 year ago
Impressed! The painter did not set out to make juvenile 'collectors cards ' of every character. She chose an interesting selection and her skill is remarkable, whether we agree of not with the interpretation.
Mike Orenstein 1 year ago
I'd say the movies did an exceptional job casting actors, applying makeup to be consistent with the book descriptions of the characters.
Mike Orenstein 1 year ago
I'd say the movies did justice to the book descriptions of the characters.... quite impressed.
Chris Munroe-Martyn 1 year ago
Most of these are pretty dam horrible looking so I. Glad they went the route they did
Idiotic Bees 1 year ago
they were pretty good! they weren't exactly what i was thinking because they all do look like they need some McDonalds or Whataburger, but i do love the outcome! :)
Nieda Giles 1 year ago
Some of the people chosen to play the characters were pretty good picks if you just deprive them of bread for a month it would be spot on
Cathy Jo Baker 1 year ago
They all look way too young, and emaciated. I'm fine with how the movie portrayed them all!
Steve Zagieboylo 2 years ago
Meh. The only one that is clearly more accurate than the movie casting is Hermione, who is supposed to have buck teeth and be a little homely, but they accidentally cast a girl who grew up to be one of the most beautiful women of all time. In the books, it is Ginny who is stunningly beautiful, so I guess this artist improved on that one slightly, but still didn't get there. The artist needs to study true redheads to learn how freckles are really distributed.
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Robert Deltorik 2 years ago
This is just absurd and dumb, these characters still look like they come out of a water damaged comic strip.
Scourge McCloud 2 years ago
These are pretty close to what I saw in my head in 5th grade. It's like the artist is living inside my mind o.o
Corina Hill 2 years ago
You could poke someone’s eye out with most of the chins in these drawings. Why does almost everyone have the same jawline?
Cathy Scott 2 years ago
Fleur, Cho, and Luna were the only ones who looked like their real characters. The others, not so much. Sorry.
Valerie Witter 2 years ago
Some of these were so bad they were ridiculous. She wasted her time. I read the books too and when I saw the first movie I was blown away by how closely all the actors fit their parts.
Shelley Thibeau 2 years ago
like on Halloween or the Wizard of OZ they r all the same thing thin faced
Patricia Henderson 2 years ago
I wish they did a side by side of the character rendering and the casted actor.
Cindy Caruso 2 years ago
None of these look like what my mind pictured when I read the books. And yes I read them long before I ever saw the movies. These are completely unrealistic and what's with the weird eyes and malnourished look? Just weird
Hans Van Rooyen 2 years ago
A bit weird this....but the movies largely nailed it? Also did I miss a book that has detailed character descriptions?
Kyle Urbin 2 years ago
The reason mad eye moody isn't on here is because it's embarrassing how bad a job they did
Jason Marin 2 years ago
She should have add all of the other characters. Hagrid, Dumbledore, Trelawny, etc.
Jesse Ellyson 2 years ago
According to the book descriptions? No, according to this artist's interpretations. Some of them are pretty good. Some, not so much
Israel Martinez 2 years ago
Most of these were just like the movies .. the rest weren't too disappointing ... if I was disappointed, it would have been with the change in storylines, but not with descriptions of characters ...
Buzz Anderson 2 years ago
Despite everyone's criticism I'd say the producers did a fairly good job of finding people to look like the books. AND this is just ONE person's idea of how they should look according to descriptions in the book.
Fabio Paolo Barbieri 2 years ago
I liked almost all of them (Gilderoy is too handsome, and he should have a weak chin). I don't understand why everyone is critical.
SB 2 years ago
All y'all are rude, for every complement there 25 people complaining about something rather than enjoying the art this person created for us to enjoy and discuss. Yeah everyone expects a few naysayers and hecklers but most of you people are just down right aweful. Try being nice and maybe spend as much time and energy this project took into something this creative even one time in your life. Whoever the artist is, major props, yeah a few main people are missing but I'm sure you have your reason and I give props for the mad effort this must have taken.
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Eris Ea 2 years ago
This is age shaming, the older characters are too young in this...... It's like Sirius should be older.... Harry's parents were at least middle 20 when he was born and after that 11 years so it's fine to Severus, Sirius, Remus, Petigeew the Weasley family be almost in their 40's
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