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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

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

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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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    #8

    Argus Filch

    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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    #10

    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

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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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    #17

    Draco Malfoy

    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

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    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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    #23

    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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    #25

    Cedric Diggory

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    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
    Community Member
    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
    Community Member
    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

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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

    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
    Community Member
    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.

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    Pansy Parkinson

    Pansy Parkinson

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    Lil' Roo
    Community Member
    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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    #34

    Gilderoy Lockhart

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    Viktor Krum

    Viktor Krum

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    Jill Sadler
    Community Member
    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.

    TheWorldNeedsMoreLove️🤟
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everyone in these pictures are either too skinny or ridiculously fat!

    Philippe Bruneau
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I MUCH prefer the actor cast in the role.

    KimB
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No way is that the face of a quidditch champion

    Syeda Rukhsar
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Idk why he feels like he was in Azkaban for staring too much at someone..

    Kim Shannon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    jeez, don't any of these people eat?

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

    not even close, he's supposed to look *handsome* not like a f****n goblin

    Randi Hewitson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He doesn't look unattractive...he just looks like lifes beat him down hard. He's seen some things, man, dark dark things

    Tom
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Google "Greco Romano Fayum Portraits" and tell me it's not just me that thinks this Viktor Krum is very much in the style of lol

    Thomas Ewing
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The movies characters are flawless. The casting crew outdid themselves.

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

    This is really incredible art!

    Sky
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my god that’s going to haunt my dreams! I thought he was supposed to be attractive 😭

    Kayla Hewey
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This guy was supposed to have hords of giggling school girls following him? No.

    Melissa Paulson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This artist seriously thinks people are only really skinny or really fat! I read all the books and theses pictures are not like I pictured from reading at all!

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

    This guy needs to look like a well-fed athlete not a starving artist

    Dāvis Valbaks
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was a seeker. To be fast need to be lightweight. Should look like F1 pilot

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    Angela
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Get this kid a sandwich

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

    Needs to be bulkier. Book describes him as more beefy

    Melissa Hughes
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My thoughts exactly!! They are all WAY too skinny, facially speaking. This isn't a Calvin Klein photo shoot....these people actually ate!

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

    Viktor was supposed to be an internationally recognized quidditch player...i prefer the movie Viktor lol

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

    Why does he look like the red head chef on ratatouille except he doesn't have the right hair??

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

    Didn't Krum in the books have an unflatteringly prominent proboscis? Can't remember if it was hooked ala Snape, but I really thought he was probably too good looking in the movies to match up with the book.

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

    Given he's supposed to be East European (and I realise I'm somewhat stereotyping him here) but should have a much heavier set face.

    Stefaan De Clerck
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Judging from the comments, I have to read all those books again. My memory has been slipping.

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

    Are you seeing Neville here too??

    Anton Nazarov
    Community Member
    1 month ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was athletic, not nerdish

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

    He reminds me of ratatouille idk why

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

    He literally looks like Robbie from Gravity Falls

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

    this definitely captures his more Vulture-like, duck-footed description, where as the movie made him a total meat-headed jock. Definitely built for a Seeker, this really fits the narrative much better.

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

    looks like the secret son of Argus Filch that lives on some cupboard in Hogwarts

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

    They all fall into the uncanny valley, with the same eyes / chins.

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

    Stanislav Lanevski Looks Better!He Is How I Imagine Krum!

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

    the anorexic look on all of them is depressing... Shazzamm ! they need some greasy Bacon cheese burgers and season fries..

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

    I agree with Jill and also he is to old he looks yonger than Lockhart and that is not a good thing Lockhert was first so whats up with that

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

    It’s the damn bushy eyebrows and gigantic hooded eyes for me.

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

    Why do so many adults look like they’re 12?

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

    I saw the first movie. Harry is the only name I can remember. And he looked just like him

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

    no they giga chad but harry potter characters

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

    Where is the stupid chin beard????

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

    EUGGGHHHHH HE LOOKS LIKE A LITERAL RAT

    Bethany Bland
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What are you haters talking about. The artist has NAILED the characters, at least how they were in my mind - good job! Incredible talent

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

    I’d say they came really close on most.

    Alba G. Bunny
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From an artistic standpoint, some of the pictures do quite well at depicting the characters faithfully. Some portraits tho, especially the latter ones, are more like caricatures rather than true depictions. Mrs. Dursley, for instance, is far too starved, and Draco Malfoy looks positively gaunt. Their features are too large and the facial frame is too small, making the features seem comical; or at least pretending to be. In the case of Cedric Diggory and Gildroy Lockhart, features seem taken from females rather than males. Like I said, they started off well, but by the end they had veered off course quite a lot.

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

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

    He doesn't have the face build described in the books.

    Hyper_lightning11
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    like 90% of all people here are 70% thinner than they should be

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

    Really? This one looks like some creep

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

    In the books Victor had longer hair..

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

    I like the krum from the movie.

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

    I always thought he would be a bit more hesvyset

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

    This is actually true, and looks really similar. I had the book with pictures annnd

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

    bulgarian men are known to have massive heads, the movie was pretty accurate imo

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

    I feel like this depiction needs to look a bit more handsome, confident, and kind. Viktor was no angry and depressed loner... 😅😅

    Nikki S
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone above was complaining about the name Cho Chang but Viktor Krum is the most horrid butchery of Bulgarian names. Krum is NOT a family name ffs, it's a first name and a historical one. I did know one person named Krum but still it's incredibly rare. I cringe at all the stereotypes fit into this character. Reading about him was the first time that I started to seriously question some of JKR's bigger writing decisions.

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

    He looks just like Elijah Wood on the good son

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

    They sure got the ages of the adults better than the films - especially James and Lily. In the films almost everyone was much older than they should have been.

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

    This picture shows a "petty" boy, he doesn't look "Krum" at all

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

    He’s kinda hot now…

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

    I must have read a different set of books.

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

    Are they all really described as having very pointed chins?

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

    Don't they feed them at Durmstrang?

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

    This "artist" can't do cheeks (all look deformed) or freckles. Those are freckles?!? Look more like they were slapped with a sneaker sole after someone stepped in soot.

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

    Must have been done during a global famine or the Dursely's ate all the food.

    Katherine Freeman
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm a "read the book" type of person. I think they did a good job casting the movies. These people look hungry and not really real

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    3 years ago

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

    They did pretty close castings I’d say…

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

    What's with all the pointed chins and anorexic cheeks?

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

    Apparently everyone lived in a cupboard under the stairs.

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

    Are you sure? Totally different look and personality than the actor in the movie

    italiangirl1441
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I THINK THEY DID A FABULOUS JOB WITH THE IDENTIES THEY ALL LOOK SIMILAR TO THEIR MOVIE PERSONS

    D M
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We don't talk about Bruno.

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