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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Sirius Black

Sirius Black

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MarmotArchivist
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He looks like a protagonist from a Vampire TV series.

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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."

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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Lily Potter

Lily Potter

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Cody
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11 months ago Created 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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#7

Narcissa Malfoy

Narcissa Malfoy

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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.

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

#9

Ginevra Weasley

Ginevra Weasley

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Glittery Panda
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11 months ago Created 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.

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#10

Cho Chang

Cho Chang

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Rabbit Carrot
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11 months ago (edited) Created 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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#11

Charlie Weasley

Charlie Weasley

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Jayne Kyra
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11 months ago Created 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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#12

Lucius Malfoy

Lucius Malfoy

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Zero
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11 months ago Created 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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#13

Hermione Granger

Hermione Granger

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Luna Lovegood

Luna Lovegood

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Draco Malfoy

Draco Malfoy

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Neville Longbottom

Neville Longbottom

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Lord Voldemort

Lord Voldemort

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James Potter

James Potter

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#22

Ronald Weasley

Ronald Weasley

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TheLilacButterfly
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

those eyes are boring into my soul please stop smiling like that ron!

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#23

Bellatrix Lestrange

Bellatrix Lestrange

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BA
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11 months ago Created 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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#25

Cedric Diggory

Cedric Diggory

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Dudley Dursley

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Cody
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like he's about to undergo mitosis.

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#27

Petunia Dursley

Petunia Dursley

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Monday
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11 months ago Created 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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#28

Dolores Umbridge

Dolores Umbridge

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Nika De Beer
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this was in the movie, it would have been a horror

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#29

Peter Pettigrew

Peter Pettigrew

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Jayne Kyra
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This looks like a Weeper from the game Dishonored.

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#30

Merope Riddle (Voldemort's Mother)

Merope Riddle (Voldemort's Mother)

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Kimberley McMillan
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11 months ago (edited) Created 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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#31

Bill Weasley

Bill Weasley

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Gautam Balachandran
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11 months ago Created 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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#32

Minerva Mcgonagall

Minerva Mcgonagall

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Nicole Weymann
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11 months ago Created 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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#33

Pansy Parkinson

Pansy Parkinson

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Lil' Roo
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11 months ago Created 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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#35

Viktor Krum

Viktor Krum

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Jill Sadler
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11 months ago Created 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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