[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Has you image of the characters change?

[Melissa McCarthy]

Oooh, good topic.  I haven't seen the CoS movie yet (I must go shut the oven
door on my ears!), so all this refers only to PS.  Apologies to Diana for
stealing her synopsis framework....

Actors have fused with the characters in my mind:
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger (although as I re-read the books, I find my
image of Book!Hermione is reasserting itself)
Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid
Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley
Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall
Richard Harris as Professor Dumbledore
Warwick Davis as Professor Flitwick
Zoe Wanamaker as Madam Hooch
Simon Fisher-Becker as The Fat Friar

Actors do not match my vision of the characters:
Julie Walters as Molly Weasley
Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley
Alan Rickman as Professor Snape (this may simply be because I like Alan
Rickman and I dislike Snape)
Chris Rankin as Percy Weasley
John Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick (only because Cleese is very
recognisable... I don't see Nearly Headless Nick so much as I see
John-Cleese-as-Nearly-Headless-Nick, but since I like John Cleese, it's not
really a problem)

Everyone else is both similar enough and dissimilar enough to my mental
image of the book characters that they don't strike me either way.

> 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.

That's a good way of looking at it.  I'm still trying very hard to preserve
my view of the movie as its own canon, separate from the books, with varying
degrees of success.

Melissa, having a sudden sinking feeling that I didn't really answer the
question... oh dear....