"Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends." Slytherin students, past and present, despite stereotypes, are a diverse lot. From The Dark Lord Himself to Albus Potter, the house of green and silver has been home to some of the greatest and most well-known wizards in the world.
While green and silver are a constant in both the Harry Potter novels and the Harry Potter movies, some character details were lost in translation when Warner Brothers took on the story. Here are some of Slytherin's most well-known members, and how they are supposed to look.
10 Draco Malfoy
Slytherins original son, the character who introduced fans and readers to Slytherin's house and stereotypes, Draco Malfoy may be one of the best translations of character from page to screen. Whichever casting agent found Tom Felton should receive a gold star.
While he did have to bleach his hair to have it be as "platinum" blond as it is described in the novels, his pale face and trademark sneer are directly from J.K. Rowling's own description in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and the illustration of Jim Kay.
9 Bellatrix Lestrange
Bellatrix, played by Helena Bonham Carter in the films (and drawn by Aïcha above), leans a little toward the crazy side in her look on screen. Her hair is a bird's nest and her makeup makes her look paler than Draco (her nephew).
On the page Bellatrix is supposed to be tall, her hair is supposed to be, long, thick, black, and shining. She also has heavy-lidded eyes. That's not quite what movie fans see when presented with Voldemort's best lieutenant. It does help explain how Delphi looks in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
8 Voldemort
It was Tom Riddle who spent time in Slytherin house, rather than his evil alter ego, Voldemort (drawn by Kazer_Renato above) but, as Voldemort spent more time on screen, we're exploring the differences in his film appearance and his book description.
Certainly, there are similarities, his pale skin, chalk-white skull face, and his slit nostrils. Like his nemesis, Harry Potter, it's his eyes that are all wrong on screen. In the books, Voldemort has red eyes. His pupils are slits, like that of a cat. He also has unnaturally long fingers.
7 Severus Snape
Like his protege, Draco, the casting department should get extra marks for choosing Alan Rickman to translate Snape (drawn by Marina Michkina above) from the page to the screen. Snape has thin sallow skin and a large hooked nose. Add to that Rickman's greasy black wig and it's clear who he is supposed to be.
The difference lies in Rickman's age. The actor was in his fifties when he began portraying the potions master, despite the fact that Snape, in the novels is supposed to be in his thirties. Rickman also lacked Snape's yellow and uneven teeth.
6 Crabbe
Vincent Crabbe, one of Draco Malfoy's henchmen, was played by Jamie Waylett in the first six Harry Potter movies (and drawn by UptheHill). Like the Crabbe of the novels, Waylett was thick set with a relatively flat nose.
He lacked the boy's pudding bowl haircut, however, and he was the shorter of the two henchmen (Crabbe and Goyle) whereas in the novel he is described as being the taller of the two.
5 Goyle
Gregory Goyle (by Eirwen980 above), the third of the Slytherin triumvirate, was portrayed by Josh Herdman in all eight of the Harry Potter films. Unlike Goyle, Herdman was taller than Crabbe (played by Jamie Waylett) and lacked the bristly hair of his character description in the novels.
Goyle, on the page, is supposed to have small dull eyes, where Herdman has average eyes that do seem to pay attention.
4 Salazar Slytherin
It seems silly to have a list of Slytherins without the patriarch himself, Salazar Slytherin, founder of Hogwarts, Parseltongue, and skilled legilimens. While he doesn't appear much on-screen, he does have a chocolate frog card and portrait at Universal's Wizarding World theme park. In the books he is described mostly from the statue Harry sees of the Hogwarts founder in the Chamber of Secrets in Harry Potter book two.
He is described as monkeyish, with a thin beard that, like Dumbledore's, falls to the bottom of his robes (see Fadly Romdhani's depiction able). On his chocolate frog card, his beard isn't nearly so long, and he lacks any features (extra-long arms, etc.) that would make him seem "monkeyish".
3 Narcissa Malfoy
Narcissa Malfoy, played by Helen McCrory, has blond hair like her son and husband, though not nearly as platinum in coloring. While the Narcissa of the novels also has blond hair, it is described as being much longer than the style McCrory wears (as seen in Pandora Heroine, above).
She is described on the page as being particularly pale and having blue eyes, another characteristic she lacks on-screen. It should also be noted that McCrory was originally cast to play her own on-screen sister, Bellatrix Lestrange.
2 Lucius Malfoy
It seems that with Slytherins the casting department did particularly well translating them from the page to the screen. Like his son Draco, and his ally Snape, Lucius Malfoy, played by Jason Isaacs, looks very much as he is described by J.K. Rowling.
He has a pale pointed face, and pale blond hair, with gray eyes (see lumione's interpretation above)It's hard to imagine anyone other than Isaacs in the role with his famous blond wig.
1 Horace Slughorn
Beginning in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Horace Slughorn is portrayed by Jim Broadbent. While Broadbent's performance is admirable, he doesn't look very similar to the image rendered in J.K. Rowling's original description.
When he first appears in Harry Potter, Slughorn is described as incredibly fat, old, short (he only reaches Dumbledore's chin), and bald (which HilleMinne certainly gets right in her rendition). Broadbent most certainly is not bald on-screen and lacks some of the height deficiency described.
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April 20, 2020 at 05:30AM
