I dislike Hermione cos she's completely un-Hermione like. She would have been better off having her hair dyed red and cast as Ginny. She just doesn't fit the part. That and her acting sucks.

 

Well, provided that in the books 'she' is the only member of the trio with a penis...

 

Hmm, I think the majority of the women in the movies seem to be weakly cast, whereas the male roles are stronger.

Hermione- though probably the only pretty face in the movie, is not well cast. She's meant to be plain looking and with overly curly hair. Emma Watson's hair gets noticeably straighter in each movie, is not brown, and overall I'd say she's not plain looking. She does have some attractive features. I would recast her. Her eyebrows are annoying as well.

The Twins- Terrible casting choice in my opinion, they look nothing like Ron, and their hair isn't the right color for the roles. They're the right gangliness, but they just don't seem too Weasleyish to me.

Dumbledore- Normally I would agree a recast is necessary, but I think HBP might be the perfect role for Gambon's Dumbledore. Cold, Lifeless, dying, that sounds just like Gambon's acting. This one might work.

Snape- He's fine but I wish they'd give him the devil goatee he has in the books.

Ginny- What hasn't been said yet? Yeah bitch gotta go.

Cho- She's ok, but nothing like how I imagined Cho in the books. With all the hot asian hybrids, I'm surprised they went with her. I imagine Cho a bit hotter, and with a better figure. Overall I'd recast

Fleur- Again ok, but Fleur should be a bombshell, and that girl wasn't. I guess its a similar problem to what the movie Troy faced. No one person could live up to the image of Helen/Fleur and thus the producers decided to get an average girl, than someone they thought was hot. Recast.

Lupin- By far the worst casting in the moving. That guy looks like he's going to rape you the moment you have your back turned. The shitty moustache, and the creepy comb-over that reminds me of the Joker scene in Batman had me going 'wtf' countless times.
Just imagine him combing over the hair while saying "Well hello beautiful". His hair if I remember was also supposed to be sandy/grey colored, not red. It's a shame because David Thewlis isn't a bad actor. Don't know who would be a good choice, since I don't know many British actors.

Patil Twins- Again they should be hotter

Neville- He was good in the first two, after that he became too forcibly nerdy, and lost the weight, which made him Neville imo. He's fine for the seventh but he should still but portly, maybe a bit shorter too.



Tonks- Should be hotter

 

The only reason I don't disagree with any of the 'trios' casting is because sadly its been that long that I really cannot picture them as anyone else, and its been a while since I have actually read the books...

 

WTF???

Agreed on Fred and George, and the Patil twins, and Cho.

Yes it is.

 

I think he's referring to the American illustration of Snape:


Not-quite-Ninja Edit: Lol @Taure. He does look rather Russian, doesn't he?

 

Lol at the ninja edit of text. When it was just the picture I thought it was Rasputin or something.

 

Hmm.

I would cast Harry Potter as this kid that I grew up with. Looks exactly like him. Almost creepily so...

I like Dean and Seamus, that was a good job.

Neville is terrible.

Remus is terrible.

Sirius is terrible.

Ginny is terrible.

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McGonnagal was the best choice they made.

NOT ALAN RICKMAN AS SNAPE. I blame him for Harry / Snape slash.

 

Harry - I don't know what it is, but something about Radcliffe really pisses me off. Maybe it's his voice or poor acting ability. He also doesn't look anything like what I pictured Harry to be.

Ginny - Just cuz Bonnie is fugly.

Snape - Rickman is a good actor, but he just doesn't pull off a convincing Snape. He's got the deadpan sarcasm factor down, but book!Snape is a really angry person, and I always got the feeling that one little thing could set him off and make him end up strangling a student or something. Rickman doesn't have the 'rage' factor, or at least he hasn't shown it yet. Also, he's old as fuck.

Dumbledore - Bring Ian MaCellen (sp?) in to replace Gambon. Please.

Lupin - for the reasons others have mentioned. He doesn't look anything close to my mental image of Lupin. Also, he has that ratty mustache that makes me want to punch him. Seriously, he looks like an adult Piers Polkiss.

 

Always gave me the impression of a male porn star really.

 

I know what pisses me off about him. He was the second richest kid in England [Prince Harry was first,] for being a nerd with above average acting skills.

Also, I would put the guy playing House as a death eater. Epic.

 

I think pretty much all the characters except the staff need to be recast. (Add the new Dumbledore to the list of characters.)

 

Nice.

Remus is on the top of my list for recasting. The way he looked and acted made me distinctly uncomfortable, and I kept thinking that he was stalking Harry. Didn't quite feel like a mentor relationship.

Harry is next. If he isn't looking stoned then he's making funny faces at the camera and delivering his lines with the skill of a toddler. *Remembers the pathetic sounding line “I’m not weak!” in OotP.* I beg to differ, Harry.

I can’t in all honesty say anything about Ginny. Sure she’s about as attractive as a pug (and not in the ‘they’re so ugly they’re cute way’ either. I’m talking about the ‘eww what happened to it’s face’ way) but we haven’t seen much in the way of her acting. The only bit I can remember her saying was way back in the CoS. She probably still has the same skills (or lack of) as she had back then, but I reserve judgment.

 

Nods to that. During the third movie when they kept meeting up at bridges and wandering around in the woods I kept expecting him to pull Harry aside and explain how a age gap didn't matter if two people really loved each other. My other bone to pick involves his apparent lack of connection to James, although it could be how it was written. (I know people loved the style of the third movie but I'd have willing accepted cutting a few scenes of the whomping willow for more development of the marauders.)

Also Gambon's Dumbledore, just cut the humor and eccentricity out of Dumbledore's character.

 

If I could recast someone it would have to be the director himself. Replace with Quentin Tarantino.

Have someone kill off Ron, Ginny and some other misc. characters.


EDIT: Christopher Walken as Dumbledore For The Lulz and Win.

 

I swear I've read a spoof like that, but I can't remember where... Pulp Fiction!Potter for the WIN.

I know he's not British, but I'd cast Seth Green as Harry Potter. And Sean Connery would play Dumbledore and he'd call McGonagall "Bronx".

 

I actually like the twins and think they were cast pretty well, but they actually don't have the right build. The twins in the books are supposed to be shorter and stocky, like Charlie, not gangling.

Despite this, I, like so many other people, have always pictured them as being tall, lanky, and skinny, the way Ron is actually supposed to look.

How 'bout I just post this link and say "'Nuff Said."

I lol'ed. Maybe someone should add the goatee to the 'Severus Snape, Sex God' pic that shows up here occasionally. Anyone remember that?

Not much.

He should look like a creep, considering that it is 100% canon that Remus Lupin is a complete and total bag of douche. He abandons Harry as an infant in order to wallow in self-pity, he barely says hello to Harry (in his capacity as one of his parents' best friends) during PoA until Harry asks to learn the Patronus Charm, and when he does finally talk to Harry about his family he basically says, 'We all had major hard-ons for Lily, especially me. She's dead now. Did you know you have her eyes?', then he ends up marrying Tonks when it's clear he doesn't actually want to and tries to bail out on her after she has his baby.

Remus Lupin was begging to be killed in Deathly Hallows, it's just a shame he had to take Tonks with him. The widow Lupin *shudder* would have made a better match for Harry. Who would take her place in the dead book? To paraphrase Stand By Me, "It should've been you, Ginny."

News Flash: Tonks didn't die at the last battle, she suffered a fatal aneurysm from the strain of repeatedly trying to morph into Lily and Sirius at the same time. It's the only way Remus could get it up. He just dragged her corpse to Hogwarts before he committed suicide by death eater. Teddy better pray his genes all came from Tonks (save for her bad taste in romantic partners).

They should have fucking looked alike, for starters. I know not all twins do, but come on!

I love Maggie Smith for the part, though she looks much older than Minerva McGonagall.

Word. And may I add that Snape is not the Sheriff of Nottingham, nor is he Hans Gruber (though he is much like the Metatron from Dogma in that he spits instead of swallows and has no visible genitalia).

I'll buy that.

He doesn't have the rage. Snape strikes me as the type that would normally be somewhat cool under pressure, considering he moonlights as a double agent (which he sucks at, but it admittedly takes nerve just to attempt it). When it comes to Harry, though, he just can't help himself. No matter how bad his actions towards Harry make him look, no matter how much they jeopardize the war effort or his cover (Voldemort has to know how Snape acts at school and even a moron would realize that Dumbledore would only allow him to stay on as a teacher if he were doing something important for him). The man gets around Harry and he sees red, logic goes out the window.

And he is too old for the part. As of Harry's fifth year, Snape would only be thirty-five years old. I think we can agree he looks much older than that (though we could pass that off as the effects of poor hygiene, frequent punishments from Voldemort, playing catcher for Dumbledore, and the ravages of the syphilis he contracted from the red-haired prostitute he raped the day Lily married James).

Likewise, Lily and James died before they even turned twenty-two. There's no way they looked like the people Harry saw in the mirror in the first movie, and coming from Riddle's wand in the fourth movie.

Tonks, when we first meet her, is older than Harry's parents were when they died; think about it.

I'm sorry, but I just can't seem to read anything you have written because your avatar of Ron molesting Hermione has me vomiting on my monitor. uke:

I'm- I'm wiping it off my screen, but the avatar is still there. *hurrp*

 

hmm.. I'm going to leave Harry Hermione and Ron alone because I can't picture anyone else playing their parts now.

Though of the three, I'd recast harry first.
But hermione stays, she is too spot on in my opinion to change. She just needs to learn to act

Ginny of course would be recast. Preferably that girl who played Violet in that lemony sniket movie. I think she's australian but she would make a good red head. Plus she's an excellent actress in my opinion so she might actually make the part good.

I like who they cast for :
Cho
Hagrid
McG
Voldemort
Rest of the weasleys with the exception of bill from that one image
Original Dumbledore
Moody
Orig Flitwick( maybe its the same one but they did a big change with him)
Dursleys
Potter Parents
Nevile
Luna
Snape
Trelawney
Lucius

I'm iffy on Bellatrix only because I pictured her to be a little hotter though the acting makes me want her to stay.

Tonks looks the part some of the time... but some angles make her look manly.

I want billie piper to play something simply because shes' british and I like her as an actor.

If she played narcissa I think she could pull it off.

Michael gambon, while a good actor I suppose, is a shitty dumbledore. He's too short, he acts angry and surly, he doesn't inspire any kind of grandfatherly warmth. he reminds me more of fanfiction manip dumbledore.

They scored the jackpot with the original dumbledore guy. Its a shame he died. But they could have easily cast someone who looked like him in the getup.

I'd have cast the guy who plays sirius as mundungus and given sirus's role to someone like fienes and have him do a double role.

If anyone remembers PoA they cast temporary parts for the patils. I always thought they made better patils than the ones they went with for GoF.

 

Lindsey Lohan (Didn't type her name in google for sex tapes in a while, so I might got it wrong) = Ginny.

 

Hah. Lindsey Lohan was fifteen when the Sorcer's Stone came out.

I think someone would have noticed the difference between a ten and fifteen year old. Plus, that makes her twenty now, trying to play a sixteen year old.

Plus, Ginny isn't suppose to look like a whore....

Personally, recasting anyone for the last 2 films, and the last book would be a stupid and pointless move.