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It has to be bellatrix for me.
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I always liked Kingsley’s outfit.
True, he was one of the characters that looked the more how I imagined wizards outfit to be in the books.
The irony there is he’s one of the few characters in the books that is explicitly said to be good at dressing and acting like a muggle
Lmao that's true.
The funny thing is, you could pass his outfit for traditional clothing from different parts of the world. And whilst it would be perfectly fine to wear said clothing in the UK, why on earth would someone trying to blend in do that?
Yeah, but in the movies we don't see him trying to blend with muggles, do we?
The hat in particular was nice. I don’t know about the blue robes, but if I had a hat like that in real life, I’d happily wear it outside.
You should get a hat like that!
He was outfitted the way they described wizards the day Voldemort was destroyed in the PS. Remember Vernon noticing it while taking his break at work?
Really? I always imagined Samuel L Jackson when reading the books, lol.
He’s got style!
Prime wizard drip.
His movie out fit is nice, but I always pictured him dressing and looking like Idris Elba in Luther.
Lucius and Gilderoy.
Yes! Especially Lucius. Love his cane... Imma get one, when I'm an old lady.
Gotta be Mad-Eye Moody. Nailed it.
Both the acting and the appearance were great, you're right.
My #1 problem with Mad-Eye Moody is that he had criminally little screen time.
Like goddamn. I would watch a whole show about him basically being the Dr. House of Aurors.
Ditto, how has no one created an aurors anthology series. It's annoying how much potential the universe has for cool spinoffs, and we get fantastic beasts and cursed child.
Yep pretty much.
Like say what you will about Star Wars, they at least know how to tell a bunch of different stories once a world is set up.
Like Africa has a school that teaches wandless magic. Japan has their own school. That's worth a series right there.
Potterverse anime would go hard.
A school in Africa that teaches wandless magic feels very, you know, poverty porn chic. They're so poor/primitive they couldn't figure out wands sort of deal.
But also, why do I feel like they'd set up with like one school for the entire continent and everyone in Africa goes to wandless wizard school.
I would love a show about his hunting death eaters
Completely agree! Moody is one of my very favourite characters too!!
Sirius with the nice suit at Grimmauld Place.
Dumbledore in first two movies. He had colorful robes, like in books. Then they changed actor and his outfit forever gray like Azkaban robes from books
You can't deny Dumbledore's got style.
Hello Phineas
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Lol wtf
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Just like Harry's t-shirt, he used the same one since PoA
Richard Harris is the perfect dumbledore
fuck. never noticed the actor change until recently.
The original Dumbledore, Richard Harris, was the father of Jared Harris (The Crown, Chernobyl, Mad Men) and the great uncle of Annabelle Wallis (Malignant, The Mummy, The Tudors). Their family is basically one of the acting world’s royal families lol
He was the perfect Dumbledore, too, imo. He nailed Dumbledore's energy. Such a shame he passed before he could take the films further. I've always disliked the direction they took Dumbledore in the later films (such as the infamous GoF scene: "HARRY-DID-YOU-PUT-YA-NAME-IN-THE-GOBLET-OF-FIYAH!?!?!" Dumbledore asked gently.)
IIRC he did it for his grandchildren. He knew he probably wouldn't finish the movies but he wanted to do something for them.
I can’t agree more! I think Michael Gambon’s Dumbledore was unlikable, he was kinda mean and it didn’t seem like he had read the books or done any research on his character.
Umbridge. Staunton’s portrayal needed no support at all, so the perfectly matched aesthetic made this the perfect package.
An awful character brought to life incredibly well by fantastic acting and costume/set design.
She channeled the character so well! My only gripe is she was a bit pretty for someone described as toad like but it’s very minor.
I feel like her book description and illustrations just don’t translate well to a real actress. She’s too much of a caricature and doesn’t look at all like a real person.
I think it’s a huge improvement that they took an actress who looks like your average nice but maybe silly grandma (with all that pink) and made her into one of literature’s best villains.
I hated her more than I hated Voldemort in the movies... Talk about world class villain.
Arthur in CoS when they still had adults wearing robes all the time (you know, like the books). I disliked a lot of the costumes after that because it was a lot of just normal clothes
It was so frustrating when it was regular clothes even at Hogwarts.
Made ZERO sense, especially for characters like Umbridge
They gave Umbridge the Hillary Clinton aesthetic
Umbridge would absolutely hate being dressed as a muggle.
Clinton? Wow you really are blind to the details of power suit fashion. She was styled like Margret Thatcher.
I hope that they stick to more wizarding world clothes in the upcoming series
Yeah, they basically destroyed my interest in the movies with that choice. I watched PoA and GoF as well when they came, but my potential love for the film version of the story was gone.
Despite some flaws I think the movies are pretty entertaining and fun to watch
It would have made an interesting detail to have the younger muggle-borns primarily wear muggle clothing on the weekends while wizard-borns would wear more casual wizard clothing. Much like how real-life kids will bully other kids for dressing poor or in their ethnic clothes, "purebloods" could easily target muggle-borns by how they're dressed.
Yes! And I don’t get why… we don’t turn on Harry Potter for the pleasure of seeing a bunch of people in jeans, hoodies or cardigans.
That opening scene in the HBP movie where Harry is in the underground and sees a girl he likes, then Dumbledore just appears…. what, there wasn’t enough source material to go around? Why use an invented muggle scene?
For that matter, why change the final battle? It was more epic in the books in the end.
I've only seen the movies through GOF. It would piss me off so badly to see them wearing normal clothes. So much of the humor and minor plotlines of the books is that the characters don't know how to dress in the muggle world.
And what's this about Harry going after a girl during the beginning of HBP? Does he not come to get Harry from his family's house?
Nope! He just appears in the Underground. Meanwhile Harry is sitting in a crappy looking cafe, drinking coffee and hoping to get a date with a random girl that has NO significance to the movie at all.
Funny you should say that, the 3rd movie is when I stopped liking them because (on top of the plot changes) I hated the lack of robes. And it only got worse.
I dislike that scene soooo much. Irrelevant to the plot. Can’t watch the movies, they’re so disappointing.
I have a friend who has only seen the movies and he tries to ask me to explain what happened to Voldemort and how certain things went down and I just shake my head and tell him I can't because they really mucked it up... makes no sense if you've read the books. Definitely more epic in the books.
Igor Karkaroff's outfit when he arrives at Hogwarts for the triwizard tournament
And Sirius Black is always on point
My boy Sirius rockin that hobo-chic! 10/10 would look the same if I was a Wizard.
Ohh I think I see, do you mean the white/grey one? If so I agree.
Exactly, very stylish for a former death eater
Dumbledore's not the only one who got style.
God, he looked so cool! My caveman brain saw all that fur and said "he must be a powerful clan chief."
Because I have a taste for the theatrical and can be an obnoxious edge lord when I want to be, I’ve always really liked Snape’s aesthetic.
I think changing Narcissas' hair was a good idea. So much symbolism describing who she is just through two hair colours. Brilliant!
Yes! And what a beaultiful woman !
I actively hated Narcissa's look. She was too Victorian and too harsh.
I love the Outfit of Bellatrix and I love the pastel colored Outfit of Luna, both witchy, one dark but girly side and the other is more girly bright side ☺️
I killed Sirius Black!
I'm the first to say Hagrid?
Hagrids seems underrated, i think its pretty cool too
Same! Helena bonham Carter portrayed the role so well
I mean I'm pretty sure she didn't even swing by wardrobe, that's just what she wears regularly
YESSSS!!! I met her once in real life in London, she looks like this with sunglasses and a cellphone, and a cute tiny purse. Like Beatrix from a parallel universe with the last name of Trelawney.
I loved Lucius' aesthetic because the actor who was playing him forced his own ideas on Lucius' costume. Also, Snape's look was him all the way.
Trelawney 🥰🥰🥰
Definitely Luna, especially her Yule Ball dress; it’s EVERYTHING
Luna wasn't at the Yule Ball, we didn't even know her in GoF
You know what they meant, or atleast should being a ravenclaw and all