Neville Longbottom
For some reason or other, Neville doesn’t get much of a description in the Harry Potter books. Besides for being “a round-faced boy,” as Rowling writes in Sorcerer’s Stone. However, Rowling did give more details on how she pictured Neville in an interview, saying that “to me, Neville’s short and plump and blond.” Back in the early Harry Potter days, Matthew Lewis who plays Neville Longbottom did fit the character really well, aside from his brown locks. However, Lewis coined the phrase Neville Longbottoming by becoming extremely attractive in the later films, which was poorly fitting with Neville’s continued awkward appearance.
Neville Longbottom
Sirius Black
Sirius is first described in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where Rowling says he has “a mass of filthy, matted hair hung to his elbows. If eyes hadn’t been shining out of the deep, dark sockets, he might have been a corpse. The waxy skin was stretched so tightly over the bones of his face, it looked like a skull. His yellow teeth were bared in a grin.” But, she also notes that Sirius is quite good-looking. Although the actor did a great job with his portrayal of Sirius’ fragile mental state following his imprisonment, his appearance never quite lived up to its obscenity in the books. On the contrary, Sirius had more in common with this chapter illustration showing Sirius as a young boy at Hogwarts.
Sirius Black
