Verkar som en uppmaning till en mycket lång och ganska pedantisk lista, så jag kommer inte att sträva efter fullständighet, men jag lägger till några tills jag blir uttråkad (vissa refereras till i kommentarerna, men jag kommer inte duplicera eventuella poäng som görs i det andra svaret, förstås).
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moster Petunia.
Mrs Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - p.7 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 1, The Boy Who Lived
Hon är naturligtvis en brunett och inte särskilt långhalsad.
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Arthur Weasley hade glasögon i böckerna och beskrivs som att hon inte har mycket hår, vilket inte passar verkligen med skådespelaren, som jag inte kommer ihåg någonsin att ha glasögon i filmen och som har en mycket respektabel mängd hår för en medelålders man. Han ska också vara tunn (ingen respektlöshet mot Mark Williams)
Mr Weasley was slumped in a kitchen chair with his glasses off and his eyes closed. He was a thin man, going bald, but the little hair he had was as red as any of his children's.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - p.33 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 3, The Burrow
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Harry Potter har berömda ljusgröna ögon medan Daniel Radcliffe är blå, som tydligen orsakade lite stress . Han är också tänkt att vara anmärkningsvärt mager, vilket inte är hur jag skulle beskriva Radcliffe. Åh och hans hår är famously untameably rörigt.
Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley's and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair and bright-green eyes.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - p.20 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 2, The Vanishing Glass
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Albus Dumbledore.
He was tall, thin and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt. He was wearing long robes, a purple cloak which swept the ground and high-heeled, buckled boots. His blue eyes were light, bright and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - p.12 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 1, The Boy Who Lived
Jag kan inte ärligt säga att antingen Harris eller Gambon passar denna beskrivning. Harris är inte nästan mager nog, Gambon är bara inte Dumbledore och har ingen av sin twinklyness. Det är upp till dig hur hård du vill vara. Om du sätter ut kostym och näsa (jag skulle inte säga att Harris näsa ser långvarigt ut, eller som om den har blivit bruten två gånger) är det en ganska rättvis uppgift, men ingen av dem ser ut som den Merlin-eska bilden jag ser.
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Dudley är blond, som CHEESE påpekar , inte brunhårig.
He had a large, pink face, not much neck, small, watery blue eyes and thick, blond hair that lay smoothly on his thick, fat head.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - p.21 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 2, The Vanishing Glass
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Hagrid är en halvgigant och i böckerna är han omöjligt stor, medan Robbie Coltraine-versionen är bara ... lite stor, verkligen.
If the motorbike was huge, it was nothing to the man sitting astride it. He was almost twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big to be allowed, and so wild - long tangles of bushy black hair and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of dustbin lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - p.16 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 1, The Boy Who Lived
Det kan givetvis inte vara en riktigt noggrann beskrivning. Jag tror inte att Rowling nödvändigtvis är avsedd för att bli taget metaforiskt, men det finns inget sätt han kunde ha monterat på ett rörtåg, eller till och med genom hindren i denna storlek.
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Barty Crouch Jr var också blond, som vår goda vän som verkar ha något för blondiner påpekar.
[...] and a boy in his late teens, who looked nothing short of petrified. He was shivering, his straw-coloured hair all over his face, his freckled skin milk-white.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - p.516 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 30, The Pensieve
David Tennant är en annan brunhårig skådespelare. Om du också accepterar detta, ger de honom ett fält som en definierande funktion, som även överför till hans Moody, där han inte har någon i böckerna.
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Mady Eye Moody är mycket vildare i böckerna. Hans hår är mörkt grått och beskrivs som en mane, till skillnad från filmversionens ganska välmassade ingefärahår. Hans ansikte är förstört, mycket mer ärr än filmversionen verkar vara, och han har en del av hans näsa saknad.
He lowered his hood, shook out a long mane of grizzled, dark grey hair, then began to walk up towards the teachers' table.
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The lightning had thrown the man's face into sharp relief, and it was a face unlike any Harry had ever seen. It looked as though it had been carved out of weathered wood by someone who had only the vaguest idea of what human faces were supposed to look like, and was none too skilled with a chisel. Every inch of skin seemed to be scarred. The mouth looked like a diagonal gash, and a large chunk of the nose was missing.
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He stretched out a hand that was as badly scarred as his face, and Dumbledore shook it, muttering words Harry couldn't hear.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - pp.163-4 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 12, The Triwizard Tournament
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Voldemort ska ha röda ögon med slitsliknande elever, där i filmerna verkar han inte. Även hans fingrar är mycket distinkta.
His hands were like large, pale spiders; his long white fingers caressed his own chest, his arms, his face; the red eyes, whose pupils were slits, like a cat's, gleamed still more brightly through the darkness.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - p.559 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 33, The Death Eaters
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Den reimagined Flitwick som kommer från Fångaren av Azkaban och framåt är alltför ung.
Hedwig was still angry with Harry about the disastrous car journey and Ron's wand was still malfunctioning, surpassing itself hitting tiny old Professor Flitwick squarely between the eyes, creating a large, throbbing green boil where it had struck.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - p.81 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 7, Mudbloods and Murmurs
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JKR själv på Matthew Lewis som Neville :
And there's another example, you know, they cast what they think is this plain-looking kid and he grows up to be this kind-of rock god.
Jag vet inte om dig, men jag kan inte se Neville Longbottom göra fotograferingar i hans underbyxor.
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But, you know, to be honest, you and Rupert and Emma are all too good-looking. Frankly. You are. You know, the characters were geeky and you ...
And then when I met her and she was this very beautiful - which she still is, of course - beautiful girl. I just kind of had to go [sighs] 'okay, okay, it's film, d'you know - deal with it. I'm gonna still see my gawky, geeky, ugly duckling Hermione in my mind, but -'
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Not that Hermione in the books is ever ugly, but it was quite a big deal for me that I had written, you know, a strong female character who was primarily about brain, and that she chose to become a little more groomed and glamorous, as, you know, us geeks do, at a certain point in our lives.