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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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Sirius Black

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MarmotArchivist
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3 years 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."

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    Fleur Delacour

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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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    Severus Snape

    Severus Snape

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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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    Lily Potter

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    Cody
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    3 years 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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    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.

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    Argus Filch

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    Ginevra Weasley

    Ginevra Weasley

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    Glittery Panda
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    3 years 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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    Cho Chang

    Cho Chang

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    Rabbit Carrot
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    3 years 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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    Charlie Weasley

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    Jayne Kyra
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    3 years 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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    Lucius Malfoy

    Lucius Malfoy

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    Zero
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    3 years 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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    Remus Lupin

    Remus Lupin

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    Harry Potter

    Harry Potter

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    Luna Lovegood

    Luna Lovegood

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    Julieandthephatones
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    heh i think they did her pretty well in the movies

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    Draco Malfoy

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    John Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty close. Looks a bit malnourished tbh.

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    #18

    Neville Longbottom

    Neville Longbottom

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    Fred And George Weasley

    Fred And George Weasley

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    Lord Voldemort

    Lord Voldemort

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    James Potter

    James Potter

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    Ronald Weasley

    Ronald Weasley

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    TheLilacButterfly
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    3 years 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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    Bellatrix Lestrange

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    BA
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    3 years 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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    Cedric Diggory

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    Dudley Dursley

    Dudley Dursley

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    Cody
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like he's about to undergo mitosis.

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    Petunia Dursley

    Petunia Dursley

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    Monday
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    3 years 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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    Dolores Umbridge

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    Nika De Beer
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    3 years 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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    Peter Pettigrew

    Peter Pettigrew

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    Jayne Kyra
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    3 years 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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    Merope Riddle (Voldemort's Mother)

    Merope Riddle (Voldemort's Mother)

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    Kimberley McMillan
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    3 years 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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    Bill Weasley

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    Gautam Balachandran
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    3 years 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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    Minerva Mcgonagall

    Minerva Mcgonagall

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    Nicole Weymann
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    3 years 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.

    Shyla Clay
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maggie Smith could play anybody any time ever, and totally rock it.

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    L1z
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually kind of looks like the actress who played moaning Myrtle

    David Philbeck
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i agree with ya on that one Professor Mcgonagall her persona fits the original character Maggie Smith

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    Rebekah Conard
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That image looks like an aging Tina Fey.

    The Chosen One
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maggie Smith was so good in this role though, she's such an amazing actress. In my opinion, she's much better than whatever this is.

    Cristalwyck
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope Maggie Smith is Minerva McGonagall

    KC
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Though Maggie Smith makes a great Mcgonagall, in the books she was much younger.

    Rowlie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If Tina Fey was Amish

    ThePanInPanda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks kinda like an adult Wednesday Addams, but that's probably mostly the hair.

    Rachel Ligocki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This looks like a granny Tina Fay…

    Oberain
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...Since when did the book say McGonagall was Tina Fey

    Terrika McCoy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks like Tina Fey on a bad diet.

    Patricia Ackerman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Totally agree..no one but Maggie could play her

    Catharine M
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not bad in the book she is much younger. But Maggie Smith did so well in the role hard toicture anyone else

    LynzCatastrophe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nobody BUT Maggie Smith! I cannot picture her in any other way.

    Annie Bieber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WTF did you do to Tina Fey?🤦‍♀️

    Cora Matley
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ok anybody wached pink panther??? because it really looks like nicole but like 10 to 20 years older....see what I mean??? 19920-2831...208ffd.jpg 19920-28313-63f2b90208ffd.jpg

    Angela Spence
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one not how I saw here defiantly Maggie Smith in my mind even before the films

    Yena Im
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    movie version is always bettter

    Yena Im
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    movie version is always better

    Dan Lindner
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like if Julia Louis Dreyfus played a librarian

    Steve Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope. This version doesn't look as strong as Minerva was.

    Christine Will
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maggie Smith rocked Prof McGonagall .

    Kylie Dowers
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    12 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh man, glad we got Maggie, r.i.p

    Seoyeon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    First thought when seeing this was Tina Fay

    Tuesday's child
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not a chance, Maggie Smith was PERFECT

    Geo Robrigado
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This looked more like Moaning Myrtle

    Zach Brown
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Personally this comes close to whom I imagine. Yes, Maggie Smith stole the role Perfectly. However, I am trying to escape the movie depictions of the characters.

    Makenzie McNeal
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if you look at just the forehead up looks like wednesday addams

    Ashley Wizner
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    uh well at least she is not creepy like most others but i have to say I agree with Nicole

    Sahana Rao
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tina Fey be lookin like she boutta plan a murder.

    Calvin Gramling
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No she looks to young and no hat, NO HAT

    Hypogryff4
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    she's carrying a whole entire school on her back she deserves more wrinkles

    Darby Cook
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This looks like Shirley Henderson (the actress who played Moaning Myrtle).

    Brenda Torres-Dominicy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, she looks like an older Moaning Myrtle, dead ringer for the actress Shirley Henderson though too thin. Maggie Smith was perfect.

    Misty Young
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She had, and I quote "square shaped glasses"

    Misty Young
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She had "square shaped glasses"

    tpbsyumsh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same McGonagall just 50 DAMN YEARS YOUNGER. THIS ONE MAKES THE OTHER MCGONAGALL LOOK LIKE QUEEN ELIZABETH.

    Micah Robertson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    to young she look the age of one of the 7th year students who has been held back

    Rosadella LaFrance
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like this one a strict woman and the eyes are spot on

    Anime fan 2012
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks like the stern and loving mother type, wait didn't she lose a child

    Arne Timmer
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The girl in Sherlock that dates Moriarty when Moriarty pretends to be gay.

    Kieran Bushey
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dame Maggie Smith was always Professor McGonagall in my head.

    Rachel McGraw
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Didn't j.k Rowling base McGonagall on Maggie Smith?

    Bruce B
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Moaning Myrtle is that you? Did Peeves put you up to impersonating Professor McGonagall?

    joyous
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope. Maggie Smith will forever be the epitome personification of Prof McGonagall

    CheeseGod04
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks like a grandma/ librarian

    Celeste Lechuza
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The artist needs to revoke their Harry Potter nerd claim. A lot of these photos are missing details given by the books

    An Trần
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks more like "The Prophet" Professor

    Deanna Webster
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She is described with beady eyes in the book. I still think Maggie Smith was a perfect McGonagall.

    LaTysha Moore
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ummm No, Maggie Smith was made for that role😍

    Alicia Wolfe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree she played a amazing McGonagall

    GPZ
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Age her a bit and she's Maggie Smith

    Cadance Wright
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where is her hat?She needs her hat!

    Megan Pawlak
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t know. I never envisioned her quite this young. Maybe 50’s with Dumbledor in his 70’s or 80’s. This could be 50’s I guess. But I’d envisioned her with more grey in her hair.

    Megan Pawlak
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too young even for being on the young side in the books. Give her a few more wrinkles and more grey in her hair.

    kkathleen517
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope. No. Most of these are just awful. Has this person read the books at all?? I just got done rereading all of them for umpteenth time and these pictures just don't seem to be an accurate representation of these characters at all.

    Shana Mustafa
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A younger, alternate dimension Minerva I guess? One that is the discipline teacher of a high school

    Fabio Paolo Barbieri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    McGonagall is a black-haired spinster with her hair in a bun. Maggie Smith is a great actress, and was a great beauty when young, but she does not in the least look like this particular dour Scot.

    Trey Bray
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Madeline Tacher
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just see a trans 25 year old woman in this pic. I have nothing against trans people, I'm just saying what I see in the pic.

    Marie Bland
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks a bit like Moaning Myrtle

    Sasy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    she looks like Courtney C*x to me, if made up to look older and plain

    Amy Watkins
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This looks more like Shirley Henderson (who played Moaning Myrtle)!!!

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    Pansy Parkinson

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    Lil' Roo
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    3 years 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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    Gilderoy Lockhart

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    Jill Sadler
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    3 years 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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