Has you image of the characters change?

[Diana <dianasdolls@yahoo.com>]

Good question.  For me, the casting of the three main characters was 
very close to my vision of the characters as I was reading the 
books.  Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint has 
definitely become Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley for 
me as I read the books over again and through PoA and GoF.  
   Radcliffe is a bit bigger than Harry is described in the books, 
but that doesn't bother me as it is so minor a deviation that I 
don't even notice it anymore.  I really noticed how much bigger and 
older all the kids looked in CoS versus SS/PS.  I've finally gotten 
used to it though.  There's been lots of talk about how fast those 
teens are growing, but how tall the actors are is so unimportant to 
me, because, for example, Daniel Radcliffe may be only 13, but he's 
already four inches tall than I am.  Nearly every actor, except 
Warwick Davis, is taller than I am already...so the actors can't 
really get too tall to me.  LOL  
   As for the other characters... I had actually pictured Maggie 
Smith when I read McGonagall before she was ever cast in the part.  
Alan Rickman plays the part well, but I still don't think of Snape 
as looking like Alan Rickman.  Snape is such a nasty character to me 
that Rickman is too good-looking for him.  I don't identify Richard 
Harris as Dumbledore, though he looks similar to how I imagined 
him.  Robbie Coltrane is perfect for the part and he looks so much 
like how I pictured the character that he has effectively usurped 
the character in my own view of the character.   
As for the others, here's a brief synopsis of all the players, 
divided into who fused with my personal vision of the character and 
who just resembles, but not exactly matches my personal vision of 
the characters:

Actors have fused with the characters in my mind:
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
Ruper Grint as Ron Weasley
Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid
Matt Lewis as Neville Longbottom
Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy
Jason Issacs as Lucius Malfoy
Mark Williams as Arther Weasley
Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley
Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart
Miriam Margoles as Professor Sprout
Sean Biggerstaff as Oliver Wood
Warwick Davis as Professore Flitwick
David Bradley as Argus Filch
Gemma Jones as Madame Pomfrey
Robert Hardy as Cornelius Fudge
Christian Coulson as Tom Riddle
John Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick

Actors resemble the characters, but aren't interchangable with my 
vision of the characters:
James & Oliver Phelps as Fred & George Weasley
Julie Walters as Molly Weasley
Chris Rankin as Percy Weasley
Ian Hart as Professor Quirrell
Shirley Henderson as Moaning Myrtle

Actors do not match my vision of the characters:
Harry Melling as Dudley Dursley
Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley
Jamie Waylett as Vincent Crabbe
Joshua Herman as Gregory Goyle

The casting director got many of the parts spot-on for me, so I was 
pretty happy with the casting overall.  :)   I wouldn't call 
it 'corrupting', but enhancing or fleshing-out my vision of the 
characters.  

Diana




    

> So, is there even the remotes chance that the movie has corrupted 
or
> adjusted your vision of the characters and thier world?
> 
> Just wondering.
> 
> bboy_mn