I’m pretty sure Harry Potter was the first novel I read all on my own at 7 years old, so that book and the subsequent ones probably hold such importance to me that no set of films were ever going to be able to match up to all of the imagery I’d created in my head when reading the books over and over and over. And I really did read those first three or four books like 4 or 5 times each, at least.
I was just like, “thats not what Harry/Dumbledore/Lupin/etc look like!” and I think it was a barrier I couldn’t get over as a kid watching those first films.
Tell you what though, fucking nailed it with Hagrid, can remember thinking that that’s basically exactly how I had always pictured him. Snape too, tbf.
How dirty do the films do Fred and George as well. Seen in the first couple, then they might as well not exist until part 2 of the final one. And then not seen until one of them dies but who is meant to care, we’ve not seen them enough!
@Cristo guys like Rickman, Fiennes and the established actors were not who were being referred to, more the main three and the other kids.
