lobelia321 | Harry Potter and working with child actors (Reply)

You make the first Harry Potter film in 2001 and then you make a whole bunch more and before you know it, your child actors have grown up, and they have done so not always according to expectations and book-canon plan!

A look in pictures at the HP actors then and now! (I am so highly amused by this.)

Draco Malfoy: pick a pale dweebie meanie with greased-back hair...

... and he grows up into a creamy bit of hottie delicious enough to lick right off the screen. And just look at that philtrum. Tom Felton!!

Hermione Granger: Pick a determined little missie (who looks very little like canon but okay, we'll let that one go)...

...and she grows up into a tawny-maned lipsticked lassie. Emma Watson!!

Pick two identical-looking pudgy punks with scowling eyes for Crabbe and Goyle...

... and watch one of them grow into a sweaty pudgy punk, virtually unchanged from his younger self or from canon (Jamie Waylett!), and the other into a disconcerting pretty boy! (Josh Herdman!!)

Which one's which, eh? And how are you now going to deploy these two as identical guardian thugs of philtrum-wielding Malfoy?

Dudley Dursley: Pick a fat-arse ugly dude with piggy eyes...

... and watch him group up to be this little hottie!! Harry Melling!!

Ron Weasley: Pick an odd-looking tousle-eyed chappie...

... and grow him into an, er, odd-looking tousle-eyed chappie. Rupert Grint!

Phew. At least one who didn't pop up as a surprise... *gg*

Bonus pics of Felton/Malfoy/Peagreen Clock:

Then. Now.

This post comes to you courtesy of an inspiring post by azewewish. Some of its content may overlap with a comment I made over there... ;-)

So!
Who do you think underwent the most impressive transformation growing up?

I've cast my vote... *g*

ETA:

helenish pointed out one omission in my post!!
Neville Longbottom: Take one cute little wood-elf with baby-pudge cheeks (not to mention the false teeth and ear-extenders you make him wear)...