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

I wouldn't say "better", but more accurate. The actress who played Fleur is pretty, but didn't seem fit.

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

Her hair is too dark here. It was supposed to be "a silvery-blonde"

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

How is this more accurate? It's like... random blonde girl #154

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

While this picture is a nice difference from the movie version, the impression I got about her hair was a much more classic, polished style.

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

I agree, since those bullies are usually the prettiest, however Fleur is supposed to be a bit of a bully in the way she treats others. So the image is not so far from the book. That said, she is not suitable because she has the air of a mischievious elf, fairy-like but she's missing refinement and grace in her facial features and her eyes.

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

Her eyes look out of proportion relative to head size and other features ie: Too big for her face.

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

I thought the book said her hair was almost silver. I always pictured her with even lighter hair

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

My only critique of this is that she looks a little too young, she is 17-20 during the series, and this looks more like a 5th grader.

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Marisa Varney
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She's quite a bit younger looking than she should be, this girl looks around 12. And the hair is the wrong color and she should have a more polished look. As someone else said this looks more similar to her younger sister.

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

The only picture that is in ANY way better without being WORSE anywhere else. 1/35 to perfection ain't bad, if there weren't another 15plis garbage and or unloving dolls/bad rpg cgi ones.... Sigh.

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

This lives up to the hype that she was a real beauty due to her heritage.

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

No! A typical AI chick, with copy-pasta features, that every young girl wants to copy! Ew

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

jk rowling met with the creators of the movies and said the actors matched her idea of what they were really well so idk how these where made but they still look cool

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

Gorgeous, and might I add these drawings are impeccable. I'm just stunned by how real they look.

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

The hair is the wrong colour... Supposed to be so platinum it's almost silver

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

The movies casted so perfectly for many of the characters. Fleur was not one of them.

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

better than Film-Fleur (who's pretty, but definitely not on a half-Veela level) but not quite there yet.

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

She looks kind of similar but her facial structure is much more defined I like it

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

So much better! The actress is pretty, but I DEFINETELTY prefer this one.

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

Yes, I guess. You really cannot render Fleur visually in the way she is described in the books.

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

She is very pretty. She is definitely more accurate to the character.

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

Much better than Fleur in the movie. She was supposed to be beautiful.

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

Now this I have think is more in line with how she should have looked

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

I always thought her hair would have platinum streaks or something, and maybe be straighter? Butat least she looks like she's 17 not 24!

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

Better than the girl in the movie. That girl wasn’t remotely pretty. She was just meh.

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

That is EXTREMELEY RUDE. but at least her personality was better than yours.

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Whoa that is weird. This is literally exactly how I visualised her while reading. Massive crush almost instantly. Imagine my face whenb I saw the movie. :(

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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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Lily Potter

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1 year 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.

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

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Ginevra Weasley

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Cho Chang

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1 year 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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1 year 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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1 year 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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1 year 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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Petunia Dursley

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1 year 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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Merope Riddle (Voldemort's Mother)

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1 year 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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1 year 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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1 year 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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1 year 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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1 year 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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