30 Pictures Showing Offbeat Harry Potter Facts From The Movies

Published on 02/14/2022
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Hagrid

Who doesn’t love the beloved Hagrid?  In Harry Potter and the Sorcercer’s Stone, J.K Rowling describes Hogwarts groundskeeper Hagrid as “almost twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide”. With wild, long tangled, bushy black hair and beard that hides most of his face, he also has hands the size of trash can lids, and huge feet in their leather boots. Robbie Coltrane’s (who plays Hagrid)  hair and beard fit well with this description, but, although the actor is towering, he doesn’t reach Hagrid’s supernatural size. The half-giant is described as being 11’6″, while Coltrane is only 6’1″; although he became much taller with the help of some movie magic, he still didn’t ever seem as overwhelmingly large as Hagrid was meant to be.

Hagrid

Hagrid

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Ginny Weasley

J.K Rowling portrayed Ginny as having “bright brown eyes” with “vivid, flaming red” hair “worn as a long mane”. Although this is most fitting with actress Bonnie Wright, who has striking green/blue eyes. One of the differences between the two lies in the similarities between the Weasley siblings. While Wright didn’t really have a striking resemblance to her movie siblings, besides for the shocking red hair, the books say Ginny is supposed to look a lot more like her brothers. “Her resemblance to Fred and George was suddenly striking,” Rowling wrote about Ginny in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Ginny

Ginny Weasley

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