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When comparing books and their movie adaptations, books almost always prove to be better.

One reason is that a film does not always convey the same imagery as a book, where emotions blend with visuals.

When reading, one can form a completely different image of a place or a character and have a very different overall feeling toward a story. 

When adapting a book, the cast is usually chosen based on the characters' descriptions.

However, the looks are not always so precise. With that in mind, one Vietnamese woman (known to her followers 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

Realistic digital portrait of a Harry Potter character showing how book descriptions inspired the character’s appearance.

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MarmotArchivist
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4 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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    #2

    Fleur Delacour

    Close-up of a woman showing how Harry Potter characters were supposed to look based on book descriptions.

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    Vishal Naidu
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    4 years ago Created 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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    Holly Maness
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Her hair should be more of a silvery blonde. And why does it look like she just came in from the beach?

    Rhea
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Definitely needs more silvery silky hair

    CAnn Sesco
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Issey
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Susan Sanders
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    4 years ago Created 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.

    Melanie Burlock
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Her hair was supposed to be silvery white.

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

    She looks like the bully in any teen movie

    Nuomi Li
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    3 years ago Created 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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    Hannah Evans
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not pretty enough, plus she looks too young

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

    This looks like, her little sister.

    Robyn Picknell
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created 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.

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

    Hey hair is supposed to be silvery-blonde.

    SheHulk
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks like a 12 year old girl. Wtf is wrong wya.

    Jenna
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    4 years ago Created 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

    Maurettis
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Clemence Poesy was perfect in her role

    Jen Berry
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created 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.

    Marisa Varney
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created 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.

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

    Her hair is much glossier in the books.

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

    Wasn't her hair supposed to be silvery-blonde?

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

    Pretty, but lacks more US cheer leader than which French.

    Ferdinand Humperdinck
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created 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.

    TJ RC
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created 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.

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

    That's really great 😍 the color of her hair is silver in the book though

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

    Definitely captures the "Fairy Princess" look.

    Susanna Vesna
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created 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

    Kenzie Andrew's Arm
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    she reminds me of Annabelle from Percy Jackson

    Loretta Siddy O'Sullivan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is the same with two changes really hard to see.

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

    you can date me i don't mind 👀

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

    some kind of 90s romance film character

    madeline
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created 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

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

    I've just seen a ghost or someone I knew in a past life.

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

    She's pretty but I like the original better

    Lemons and Limes
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She and Margarida Corceiro could be twins.

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

    She looks exactly like Margarida Corceiro.

    Ashley Jernigan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created 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.

    Leila Copes
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    3 years ago Created 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

    Nick Ples
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    3 years ago Created 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.

    Bettina Jansen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created 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.

    MK
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created 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

    kiwi_chan
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    woahhhhhhhhh thats wayyyyyy better

    LizaIsabellaXD
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Emily Jones
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *gasp* my gay brain can`t handle it she`s too pretty!!!!

    Pat Wooster
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. In the book she was dazzling to look at!

    Fabio Paolo Barbieri
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created 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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    4 years ago

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    Sinead Kenny
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a lot closer to the boom 🙂

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

    OMG THAT'S SO MUCH BETTER! And she's cuter too

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

    THAT SO MUCH BETTER OMG

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

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

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

    I think this is what I also pictured her as, so I agree.

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

    she looks like a barbie doll :0 (but shes so much better anyway)

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

    what..they couldn't find anyone French who looked like that?

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

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

    chaotic_charlie (they/he)
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    typically I'm not into blondes, but o//o

    Kim Pacheco
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created 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

    Tho Nguyen
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like a young Cindy Crawford maybe.

    Muffin
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    4 years ago

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    Or a young Cindi Lauper

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    Lady of the Mountains
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    4 years ago Created 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!

    Cheyenne
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created 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.

    PandaMagicGrl
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    3 years ago Created 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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    Nothanks L. Walk
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    4 years ago

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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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    Severus Snape

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    While some characters look similar to those 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.

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    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

    Realistic digital portrait of a woman depicting how Harry Potter characters were described in the book series.

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    Cody
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    4 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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    #7

    Narcissa Malfoy

    Realistic digital portrait of a woman showing how Harry Potter characters were supposed to look based on book descriptions.

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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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    #9

    Ginevra Weasley

    Red-haired woman with freckles and green eyes, representing Harry Potter characters as described in the book illustrations.

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    Glittery Panda
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    4 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

    Asian woman with natural freckles and black hair, representing Harry Potter characters according to book descriptions.

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    Rabbit Carrot
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    4 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

    Red-haired young man with freckles and blue eyes, representing a Harry Potter character based on book descriptions.

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    Jayne Kyra
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    4 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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    4 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

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    Remus Lupin

    Realistic digital portrait of a man representing Harry Potter characters based on book descriptions by a woman artist.

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    Harry Potter

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    Luna Lovegood

    Young woman with pale skin and light blonde hair showing Harry Potter characters as described in the book.

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    Julieandthephatones
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    4 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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    4 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

    Young man with blond hair and blue eyes depicting Harry Potter characters as described in book descriptions.

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    Fred And George Weasley

    Young man with red hair and freckles, portraying Harry Potter character as described in book illustrations.

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    Lord Voldemort

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    James Potter

    Young man with dark curly hair and glasses, imagined as a Harry Potter character based on book descriptions.

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    Ronald Weasley

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    TheLilacButterfly
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    4 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

    Close-up of a woman’s face showing a Harry Potter character's appearance based on book descriptions.

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    BA
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    4 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

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    Cody
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    4 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

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    Monday
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    4 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

    Portrait of a woman digitally altered to match Harry Potter characters' book descriptions with exaggerated facial features.

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    Nika De Beer
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    4 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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    #29

    Peter Pettigrew

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    Jayne Kyra
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    4 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)

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    Kimberley McMillan
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    4 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

    Redheaded Harry Potter character with freckles and blue eyes, depicted according to book descriptions by artist.

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    Gautam Balachandran
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    4 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

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    Nicole Weymann
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    4 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

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    Lil' Roo
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    4 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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    Viktor Krum

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    Jill Sadler
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    4 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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