The Harry Potter film serial did an amazing task bringing the beloved characters from the books to the big screen. Fans were left with relatively few complaints about the movies. For the about part, they were perfectly casted and well-adapted from the books, with some notable exceptions.

However, that's not to say they could not have been improved in certain means. The films were working with limited time, the constraints of special furnishings and makeup, and the usual challenges of converting a book to a movie in a compelling fashion. This leaves a lot of room to explore what could have been done with the series.

Fan artists have taken to the internet to share their own interpretations and redesigns of their favorite characters in the Harry Potter books. Their visions of the characters are oftentimes significantly unlike from the movies, sometimes to make them more accurate to the book and sometimes to explore interesting facets of the graphic symbol.

The movies were amazing in many ways, merely these artists' takes on the characters are besides incredibly compelling. These are the artistic redesigns fans have dreamed upwards to bring these amazing characters to life.

Here are 20 Harry Potter Fan Redesigns Way Better Than The Movies.

xx Draco Malfoy

Draco Malfoy, despite all of his faults and bullying, managed to find a soft spot in the hearts of many Harry Potter fans, and that affection for him has lent to some interesting fan art. Although this artwork is a more unique deviation from the portrayal of Draco, DeviantArt user HollyBell presents an interesting redesign of his character.

The graphic symbol design is influenced by an old Victorian fashion, presumably meant to reflect Draco's pureblood heritage in the wealthy erstwhile wizarding families of Malfoy and Black. It lends a certain nobility to his character that he did not possess in the films.

In improver to the Victorian way, he is dressed by and large in a Slytherin dark-green, a departure from his mostly blackness wardrobe from the movies.

His pilus is besides kept longer in a more Victorian style that is also closer to his portrayal as an adult in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The artwork besides features Draco'south pet owl that was with him at Hogwarts, only briefly glimpsed in the films, which helps to humanize him a little more than. Overall, this redesign gives Draco more personality and private style while further emphasizing the hard and arrogant traits he already showed.

xix Luna Lovegood

Luna Lovegood's unabashed quirky spirit and unique way made her a fun improver to Harry Potter's band of friends. She acted and dressed exactly as she liked, not ashamed of her offbeat nature. Throughout the series, Luna wore Spectrespecs, Butterbeer cork jewelry, and a lion head lid and an eagle to show her support for Gryffindor and Ravenclaw respectively.

Tumblr user cseguritanart created a slightly different accept on Luna. While her accessories were e'er interesting, her apparel in the movies were oftentimes a bit plainly. This artist gave Luna brilliant, colorful clothing and shoes to match. Thankfully, this seems to be on a solar day when no 1 stole Luna'due south shoes. Her bright clothes are absolute by a ribbon headband and her Spectrespecs. Fifty-fifty her opinion reflects the gratuitous-spirited and dreamy attitude she commonly adopted every bit she casts her hare Patronus with ease.

Luna's outfit in this art seems like a cross between 1960s hippie couture and Ms. Frizzle from The Magic School Charabanc, both of which experience like styles that Luna would wholeheartedly embrace. It would have been lovely to see Luna'due south personal expression develop and expand more than as the movies went on, and this artist shows what that might look like.

eighteen Bellatrix Lestrange

Bellatrix Lestrange's demented cruelty was played excellently in the movie past Helena Bonham Carter, who fully embraced her unhinged nature after escaping from Azkaban. However, this art by DeviantArt user LeskaArt shows a different side of Bellatrix that the movies were never able to properly explore.

Long earlier Azkaban, Bellatrix was part of the pure-claret Blackness family, substantially the wealthy nobility in the wizarding earth. She was supposed to possess the beauty of her family unit, greatly resembling her sister Andromeda Tonks. Information technology was her fourth dimension in Azkaban that changes her appearance, giving her a hollow and skull-like face up. Her imprisonment also fabricated her more unstable, turning her into the Bellatrix that Bonham Carter perfectly reflected.

These artworks show a glimpse of what Bellatrix was like before Azkaban and perhaps earlier Voldemort.

She has a noble, even regal advent that reflects the wealth of her family and her pride and airs in her pure-blood status. She too conspicuously carries the gorgeous family looks. The virtually interesting part of this artwork is her resemblance to Nymphadora Tonks, Sirius Black, and Narcissa Malfoy of the movies. Despite the family appearance, this portrayal nonetheless has shades of Bonham Carter to resemble what Bellatrix will later turn into.

17 Hermione at the Yule Ball

Hermione'due south wearing apparel at the Yule Ball was intended to dazzle the states and present Hermione equally a woman for the first time. While the books established she wore a blue dress to the Yule Ball, the movies changed this to a pink apparel. The costume designer, Jany Temime, manifestly chose the color change to reflect her femininity more.

Temine said of her blueprint, "[Hermione] was always the best of the class. She was a tough girl. She was a girl [who only hung out] with boys. And now she appears at the Yule Ball and she's in pink. People expect at her equally being a girl, and a very pretty one, which was not established before. It was a lovely dress. It was quite hard to blueprint considering... I didn't want her to look like she borrowed a clothes from her mom or her sister or whatever."

DeviantArt user Catherine-PL had a different view of Hermione's Yule Ball dress. The artist sticks with the volume-authentic blue dress, but too makes the dress dazzling and feminine in its own right. Peacock feathers are expertly blended in with the skirt, a feature made possible by the change back to blue. The peacock theme is carried through the unabridged apparel with peacock feature straps on the back and a peacock head design in the front.

16 Dumbledore

Dumbledore's story tied together much of the background of the wizarding earth, as he mysteriously moved in the background with much more cognition than he was willing to admit to Harry Potter and his friends. He had a paw in many parts of recent wizarding history, every bit he lived to a quite ancient age while maintaining his position as Headmaster of Hogwarts.

This art of Dumbledore past DeviantArt user albus119 is a bittersweet picture show. The title "30 June, 1997" is a reference to the last day of Dumbledore's life, the day of the fatal Battle of the Astronomy Tower. At that time, Dumbledore was 115 years old, and this delineation of him improve reflects his age than Michael Gambon's portrayal did, opting for a Dumbledore that looks more like the original Richard Harris version.

At the time, Dumbledore knew the cursed band was about to end his life, and his cursed mitt can exist seen in the groundwork.

This depiction gives Dumbledore a sweetness moment with Fawkes the phoenix, who seems to be shedding tears for him, perhaps in anticipation of mourning.

Nevertheless, fifty-fifty in this distressing moment, it reflects Dumbledore's cheerful and jovial nature with the wait on his confront.

fifteen Death Eaters

The Death Eaters of the Harry Potter movie serial were rather only designed, mostly disguising themselves in manifestly black cloaks and skull-similar masks. It reflected their radical and morbid views about pureblood status and acquisition the wizarding earth. However, DeviantArt user AlexLazar has a different accept on the design of Voldemort'south henchmen.

Instead of the simple pattern of the movies, this Decease Eater costume is extremely elaborate. The cloak is made in a flowing style that billows out and makes the wearer seem more imposing. The cloak is too lined in gold and seems to become wispy and ethereal around its night edges. The headpiece looks almost like a crown, and it'southward lit by a blue glow to appear almost supernatural. The skull mask is still worked into the pattern, but it's a very small office of the threatening figure.

The regal nature of the gilt-lined robes and crown reflects the Expiry Eater view of pureblood supremacy, equally if asserting their right to dominion the wizarding world and the world at large. It captures the credo of the Decease Eaters within the costume itself. It also presents a more impressive visual that would certainly frighten whatever intended victim or bystander.

14 Hagrid

Hagrid the lovable half-giant was easily among many readers' favorite characters. The combination of his strong, imposing form and his kind and warm nature made him an invaluable friend at Hogwarts. Robbie Coltrane was an excellent Hagrid and captured his spirit beautifully, but DeviantArt user tonton-jojo had a dissimilar picture in mind for Hagrid.

This depiction of Hagrid meliorate suggests his corking summit and strength.

It emphasizes his large features, such as his hands which were meant to be as large equally trash can lids. It retains many of Hagrid'southward signature features, such as his long, shaggy hair and the beard that obscures most of his face up, also as his clothes that appear to be hand-made from animal skins. This Hagrid appears slightly leaner, simply yet large enough to fit the character clarification.

The biggest deviation between the two depictions of Hagrid is the age that he appears to be. Robbie Coltrane had a youthful appearance, whereas the artist shows Hagrid equally an older man, a little more haggard and grey. However, since he was supposed to have been born in 1928, that would put Hagrid in his 60s during the events of the Harry Potter series, making the age deviation fit well.

13 Sirius Black

Sirius Black is one of the most tragic characters of the series. Falsely imprisoned in Azkaban and accused of betraying his best friend, he escaped his imprisonment to uncover the true traitor backside the attack on James and Lily Potter. Sirius was considered handsome in his youth, only the years in Azkaban took a toll on him just as they did on Bellatrix.

Tumblr user M.Spencer Illustration presents a picture show of Sirius Black after his escape from Azkaban that better reflects the horrible treatment he would take endured. While Gary Oldman'southward Sirius Black certainly looked unkempt later on his escape, this portrayal of Sirius rings truer as the motion-picture show of an escaped avoiding. According to the books' description, he had long, matted hair and a gaunt face, creating a rough moving-picture show of his life in Azkaban.

This artist emphasizes the hollowed out features of his face, the wild hair and unshaven face up of a prisoner-turned-fugitive with no fashion to stay clean-cut, and the tired and angry expression on his face up. They also further highlight the tattoos branded on his chest. This version of Sirius would have made his years of suffering keenly apparent to everyone, and he would have seemed an unhinged and threatening effigy to encounter.

12 Hermione

The casting of a blackness actress, Noma Dumezweni, equally Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child created an of import question about Hermione'south advent. Many readers assumed her to be calorie-free-skinned, only the casting threw that assumption out the window. Information technology was also an interesting idea for many people who felt more represented and included in the story this way, equally the Harry Potter series is otherwise rather low-cal on not-white characters.

While many readers still believed Hermione was written as white, J.K. Rowling defended the interpretation. Rowling tweeted in response, "Canon: brownish eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White pare was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione." Some readers still argued the indicate, only others fully embraced the possibility the Hermione could be blackness.

Although we got to see this black portrayal of Hermione as an adult, artists like Tumblr user aeyon took to their art to testify what immature Hermione would look like in this estimation.

With darker peel, she naturally maintains her usual bushy dark hair, brownish eyes, and assertive air.

No affair how yous feel most whether or not Hermione should be black inside the story, this is still an intriguing and cute visual of Hermione.

11 Viktor Krum

Viktor Krum was one of a handful of characters that fans noticed did not exactly match his description in the books when he was cast in the movies. In the books, Krum is described as thin, nighttime, and sallow with a abrupt profile. In the movies, he'southward played by Stanislav Ianevski, who was a bit likewise lusty and looked besides much similar a standard jock for some fans to experience he fit the part. His buzz-cut hair also didn't seem to lucifer the accent on Krum's dark hair from the books. Fans even pointed out that some of the actors standing adjacent to Ianevski looked more than similar Krum than he did.

DeviantArt user sachi813 made her own interpretation of Krum, cartoon from the clarification in the book and overlaying celebrities who fit the part.

She used a combination of Adrien Brody, Richard Armitage, and Aidan Turner to create a more book-authentic version of Viktor Krum. The result is a thin, precipitous, somewhat gaunt Krum who manages to perfectly fit the description of looking similar a bird of prey and appearing older than xviii. He has many of the features of Krum that Ianevski lacks, like thick eyebrows, a curved olfactory organ, and night hair.

10 James and Sirius

In case any fan artists were nevertheless wondering, J.K. Rowling does, in fact, wait at fan art. Rowling once revealed this detail artwork as her favorite. This artwork by DeviantArt user artofpan is especially bittersweet, showing a motion-picture show of James Potter and Sirius Black in 1978 equally they would accept looked moving into their starting time apartment out of Hogwarts.

James and Sirius are both eighteen here. James looks much like Harry did at that age and retains a far more than youthful look than his portrayal in the movies did. Sirius Blackness is a handsome, rebellious-looking boyfriend, yet long earlier his years of mistreatment in Azkaban.

Information technology'due south a snapshot of a happy memory in their lives marred by the fact that James only lived 3 more than years after this picture was taken and Sirius was sent to Azkaban soon after.

The films did a poor job of reminding the audience how young James, Sirius, and their friends were when Voldemort tore apart all of their lives. Even in the pictures of their youth in the Lodge of the Phoenix, it's hard to remember they were simply 21 years old when all of this happened during the First Wizarding State of war.

9 Lily Evans

Lily Evans sadly only made scarce appearances in the Harry Potter movies, usually only in cursory memories, photographs, or as a spirit from the Resurrection Rock. She is mainly played past Geraldine Somerville, who was already in her 30s when she began filming in the series and looked her age. It was a strange casting choice for a adult female who did non live by 21 years sometime.

A younger version of Lily Evans inappreciably appeared at all in the series. In general, well-nigh of the casting in the movies used actors that were older than their characters were intended to be, just information technology stuck out the most in the cases of Lily Evans and James Potter, who met their end at such an incredibly immature historic period.

Tumblr user lily-lou-love gives us the picture of immature Lily Evans we never quite got to see. She has a youthful appearance and a carefree air, and she is dressed in a style inspired past the 1970s, when she would have been attention Hogwarts. She wears a crown of flowers, a nice touch as she was shown using her magic to grow flowers every bit a kid. In this piece, she seems as bright, warm, and full of life as she is described to exist in the books.

8 Ron and Hermione

One of the weak points of the moving picture series was the portrayal of Ron, as it gave most of his positive attributes to Hermione and left him as a relatively unlikable grapheme in comparing to the books. The blossoming human relationship between Ron and Hermione also took a hit from this portrayal. Ron was consistently insulting her in the movies, which is not exactly a strong foundation for an adult human relationship. The romance was given very little time to naturally develop, equally well, and seem to near come out of nowhere in the films.

DeviantArt user lila-selle created this fan art around Ron and Hermione setting up a ameliorate portrayal of the couple and Ron specifically. Ron's appearance is closer to the books, as he is thinner with more than apparent freckles and a longer nose, matching his literary description.

More chiefly, though, Ron and Hermione bear witness more easy, natural affection toward each other with the body language in this artwork than they always did in the films.

They related to each other awkwardly in the movies, and this piece shows them in a more than pleasant and cheerful interaction.

This fan art hints at a more natural relationship between the ii characters that could accept been better adult within the films.

seven Voldemort's Asking

Even with eight movies, there were many incredible scenes that the Harry Potter films just couldn't manage to fit into the story with limited time. DeviantArt user RisingMonster illustrated one of those scenes from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In this scene from the book, Dumbledore remembered a coming together long ago with Tom Riddle.

Riddle applied for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and met with Dumbledore trying to obtain the position. During the meeting, Tom Riddle appears in a class somewhere between the young and fully human Riddle from former years and the inhuman visage of Voldemort. Dumbledore questioned his motives and rejected him for the position, revealing he knew Riddle was known by a new name.

In this depiction of the scene, Dumbledore is clearly much younger, not all the same greyed. Tom Riddle all the same maintains a vestige of his handsome features, but his face has begun to turn to Voldemort'due south advent. His eyes have already gone ruby as Voldemort's were in the volume, and he looks pale, hollowed, and drawn as if life has been drained from him. While he is notwithstanding recognizable, it's clear he'southward no longer human and is becoming something else entirely.

6 Lucius Malfoy

By the time of the 2d rise of Voldemort, Draco'southward father Lucius Malfoy did non seem to take much of an active role in Voldemort's plans. He appeared in few of the battles, and he mainly functioned to scheme in the background, using his respectable reputation to further Voldemort's goals. By the fourth dimension Lucius was in a position to have an active role in Voldemort'southward ground forces, he was no longer committed to the Nighttime Lord'south cause.

DeviantArt user Asahisuperdry shows Lucius Malfoy in a more active role as a Decease Eater in the First Wizarding War.

The artist intended for this to be a younger, more powerful Malfoy at the top of his strength, engaged in a darker war for Voldemort's beginning ascent to power.

The books suggest Lucius had a more central role in the kickoff state of war, fifty-fifty leading the torture of Muggles, though he later claimed this was all under the influence of the Imperius Expletive.

The artist shows Lucius Malfoy in the usual Death Eater cloak and mask, merely the residue of the costume is more warrior-like than those used in the second war. His telltale pale blond, almost white pilus tin can be seen spilling out of the cloak. The Lucius Malfoy of the movies seemed so tempered past respectable society that this vision of Lucius as a footsoldier is a hitting visual.

5 Sirius Black

Sirius Black's story inspires a significant amount of fan art, equally he was so important in the lives of both the Marauders and Harry Potter's Trio. Gary Oldman played an excellent Sirius Blackness in the movies, but DeviantArt user byLau reinterpreted the character here to show a unlike side of Sirius.

This artist's estimation seems significantly younger than Oldman'due south portrayal.

Sirius was profoundly affected and probably aged by his time in Azkaban, only this likewise shows how young Sirius was in the story. He only lived to 36 years old, so he likely would have looked fairly young through the extent of his life. This artwork is likely meant to be mail-Azkaban Sirius, equally his hair is wilder and his face up more sunken than information technology might have been in his youth. With the wildness of his looks, he also bears a closer resemblance to his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange.

In the books, the young Sirius Black is described every bit possessing the aristocratic dazzler and hit looks of the Black family and an elegant air, though this was somewhat changed past the time he escaped from prison. His clothes here show both the refinement of his noble family and the casual and unkempt attitude he seemed to adopt after he left Azkaban.

4 Harry and Ginny

Out of all the characters who got shortchanged past the movies, Ginny was the most unfortunate victim of the adaptation from the books. Although she was a strong, outspoken graphic symbol and an important friend of Harry'south in the books, she was barely fifty-fifty seen in the films before she was introduced for her romantic subplot. Most of her interesting characteristics were discarded for the films, making her a tranquillity and bland background character for almost of the series.

DeviantArt user Salzburger89 redesigned Harry and Ginny in their post-Hogwarts days to ameliorate reflect their personalities. Ginny is in athletic attire, every bit she is playing Quidditch for the Holyhead Harpies. The artist discarded the usual Quidditch robes for more efficient athletic wear, as the robes seemed like they would get in the way likewise much and would not be as aerodynamic equally this uniform.

In this redesign, Harry is in Auror training, dressed in standard Muggle clothing, which could be an asset if the Auror needs to motility between the wizarding and Muggle worlds to investigate crimes or pursue dark wizards wherever they may be.

However, the best feature of the artwork is how well the artist managed to capture the stiff, confident attitude of both characters, something the films sadly lacked.

3 Dementors

The Harry Potter series introduced a variety of magical creatures of the wizarding world, but nothing as fear-inducing as the Dementors. The Dementors are described as wraith-like creatures wrapped in black cloth with cold, decomposable bodies. They accept no eyes, simply empty centre sockets, and gaping mouths made for sucking the soul out of a person. Many fan artists take put their own spin on the wraith-like figures, adapting their horrifying features to create the best version of the iconic monsters.

DeviantArt user Vassy17 created this estimation of the Dementors, playing up the skeletal features of the dark creatures. The Dementor's hood and cloak are more sheer in this adaptation, revealing the eerie effigy underneath. The body almost entirely resembles a skeleton, showing a skull-like face, an credible ribcage, and its long and bony arms and hands.

Adding to the terror of its features, the proportions of the figure likewise present an uncomfortable picture show. It seems to be unnaturally tall with an unusually long cervix and artillery that seem to stretch to the length of over half of its body. Whereas the Dementors of the film were more often than not obscured except for a few intense glimpses at their faces, the revealed skeletal trunk hither merely adds to the terror the Dementors create.

2 Remus Lupin

Remus Lupin was a complicated character who required a complicated portrayal, served well by David Thewlis in the film series. Based on his clarification in the books, Remus' advent was worn beyond his age by the stress of living as a werewolf. His face was anile with premature lines and his pilus turned grayness throughout his thirties. Despite his lycanthropy aging him, information technology'southward important to notation that Remus was only around 33 years sometime when he first appears in the series.

Tumblr user dasstark reimagined Remus Lupin with this in heed, as he appears much younger here than he did in the movies, more equally a human being of 33 might await. Although he seems younger, he still appears thinned and tired.

The creative person fabricated the scars on his face much more dramatic than they were shown to be in the movies, making his appearance more striking.

Whether or not the depiction fits improve with the description of Remus Lupin'southward credible historic period, this is an intriguing variation that creates a stark and sad reminder of how short a time all of the Marauders lived. At the Battle of Hogwarts, Lupin was 38 years old, and he survived longer than any of the other Marauders.

1 Voldemort

With monstrous characters, the creativity of bringing them to life is often tempered past the constraints of makeup and prostheses. While the Voldemort of the movies was certainly a frightening figure, he could still accept been even more so. Voldemort is described equally possessing bone-white skull-like and reptilian features, long fingers like a spider'south legs, cat-like slit pupils, snake-like slits for nostrils, and having no hair or lips.

Tumblr user aeyon created this interpretation of Voldemort to add and emphasize all of these terrifying features. In this artwork, he truly looks like a reptile with scaly pare, long and pronounced slits at the nose, thin lips that alloy with his skin, and long and narrow eyes with slit pupils. His face up is extremely gaunt, giving him skull-like features. His mitt that sticks out to clutch his wand looks long and thin, almost skeletal. It looks as if everything that made Voldemort human is completely gone, replaced by something else.

These drastically reptilian and skeletal features would have made Ralph Fiennes' stirring performance that much more horrifying. This design apparently would be much more difficult to execute on an actor, particularly with only practical furnishings. Fortunately, artful redesigns like this testify the states how Voldemort might have looked with no constraints of practicality.

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