Toon Casting

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 2800

Hey, forget Hollywood celebs - who would you cast for Harry Potter from the
Warner Bros. animated toon characters?  Here are my selections:

Harry - Daffy Duck  (Daffy just *loves* to play the hero, whether its Robin
Hood, Drip-Along Daffy, Duck Dodgers in the 24  Century, the Scarlet
Pumpernickel, etc)

Ron - Porky Pig (Porky is the Quintessential Sidekick)

Hermione - Kitty (the object of Pepe Le Pew's affections - hey, the first
generation of WB characters does not offer a plethora of strong female
characters )

Tom Riddle/Voldemort - Bugs Bunny ("Ain't I a stinker?" Bugs is so slick
that he can always con anyone about anything; what better actor to portray
the greatest Dark Wizard of our times?)

Wormtail: How about one of the annoying Goofy Gophers?  ("Take politeness to
the point of pathology," writes Steve Schneider (in The Art of WB Animation)
in describing the Gophers)

Dumbledore - Elmer Fudd  ("Be vewy vewy quiet - I'm hunting Dahk Lohds.oh,
boy! Dahk Lohd Twacks!"  Hey, Elmer once played Siegfried from Wagner's
Ring)

Severus Snape - Yosemite Sam ("Ah hate that Potter!")

Hagrid - The Tazmanian Devil

Sirius Black- Marvin the Martian (his Animagi is K-9)

Gilderoy Lockhart - Foghorn Leghorn (ego-trippin')

Prof. Lupin - Wile E. Coyote (every month, Homo Sapiens transforms into
Carnivorous Vulgaris)

Fawkes (The Phoenix) - The Roadrunner

The Dursleys: Let's try "The Three Bears,"  the momma, papa and baby bear
from the Chuck Jones series (1944-51)

Draco Malfoy - Henery Hawk

Cornelius Fudge - Pepe Le Pew

Prof. Trelawney - Miss Prissy ("E-Yessss..")

Dobby the Elf - Tweety Bird (" I did taw a ditcarded tock!")

Mad-Eye Moody - Sylvester ("Thuffering Cruthio!")


And if we were to go to a later generation of WB 'toons, who better to
portray Voldy than that most ominous of genetically-altered lab mice, The
Brain.  Maybe Pinky could play Wormtail.  "Gee, Voldy, whaddya wanna do
tonight?" "Same thing we do every night, Wormtail: Try to take over JKR's
narrative!")

 - CMC