Book Harry vs. Movie Harry

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., poco214 <poco214 at c...> wrote:
> Since I watched the movie before reading the books, I see a mixture 
of book and movie characters.  
> 
> I picture Harry, Hermione, and Dumbledore differently, while Draco, 
McGonagall, Ron, and Hagrid are the movie actors with slight 
adjustments.
> 
> Snape is not quite as handsome as Alan Rickman (too bad ^_^)
> 
> I wish I had read the books before seeing the movie so I could have 
an unadulterated idea of how everyone looks, but then I might not 
have liked Dan Radcliffe as much, simply because of his hair and eye 
colors.
> 
> Dana
> 
To me Harry looks a bit like Dan Radcliffe, but more scruffy and 
weedy-looking (at least at first); Dan's cute and very close, but too 
well-groomed and well-fed; little, immediately post-Dursley Harry is 
more of an urchin. Hermione in my head has a rounder face, kind of 
messed-up teeth, and frizzier hair (she will be a beauty later but 
she sure isn't one now). Did anybody see that Salon.com review of 
Enigma in which the reviewer said that Kate Winslet in that flick 
looked like his idea of a grown-up Hermione? I concur, definitely.

Robbie Coltrane's Hagrid _is_ my Hagrid. The only one, really--except 
Rupert Grint, who is a lot like my Ron, only shorter. My McGonagall 
doesn't look like Maggie Smith at all (although Smith was great in 
the movie)--she has black hair like it says in the book, and big 
square-rimmed glasses, and that sort of ageless quality that very 
stern elegant women have: she could be anywhere between 40 and 70 (in 
witch years!). My Snape does look a bit like Alan Rickman (and 
certainly _sounds_ just like him), but younger and thinner and more 
pointy-faced. Richard Harris is just not my Dumbledore--the look is 
OK, but the demeanor's all wrong: too fragile and somber.

And yes, I can have the different images in my head just fine. 
Looking at a lot of fanart further complicates the mix. :)

AV