How did Harry Potter characters change? Grew up early

Next, we offer a look at matured children who have made a career in films about a young wizard. Now all of them are far from being children, but successful young people who are known and loved all over the world. The Potteriana made them in-demand actors and many of them continue to act in films to this day.

Daniel Radcliffe- Harry Potter

Daniel has been in the cinema since the age of 11 and at 26 he is already famous actor.

Despite a small growth of 165 centimeters, he became real icon hipsters and gain millions of fans around the world.

All is well with Daniel and in his personal life. He is dating American actress Erin Dark, who is 4 years older and half a head taller.

Emma Watson – Hermione Granger

Emma is not only talented, but also smart. She studied at Oxford and graduated from the prestigious Brown University with a BA in English Literature.

25-year-old Emma is a UN Goodwill Ambassador, she advocates for equal rights for men and women and is a staunch feminist. In the photo, the actress with her new boyfriend. Her chosen one is 35-year-old William Knight, a graduate of Princeton and Columbia Universities and a techie businessman from Silicon Valley.

Rupert Grint – Ron Weasley

He is perhaps the only truly red-haired representative of the Weasley cinema clan.

And here's what the 27-year-old actor thinks of his kissing with Hermione. “Emma and I have been friends since the age of 9, we were like brother and sister, and then suddenly kissing was wild. I remember her face, getting closer and closer, I’m in a panic: “Oh, my God!”, A grandiose moment, everyone around is waiting tensely ... Fortunately, one take was enough.

Tom Felton - Draco Malfoy

During filming, Emma was in love with this blond. Felton, too, was not indifferent to her. Despite this, the actors played their roles perfectly, sincerely hating each other on the screen.

Novel young talents did not last long. Tom has been in a relationship with actress Jade Olivia for 8 years now, who in the very last shots of the Potter series appears as Draco's wife.

Matthew Lewis – Neville Longbottom

After filming in films, the guy was incredibly transformed.

Last year, he undressed for a provocative magazine shoot, thanks to which he won the hearts of millions of girls. The admiration of netizens knew no bounds.

Tom Riddle

IN early childhood Voldemort was played by 11-year-old Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, now 18 years old, and he is actually the nephew of the same Ralph Fiennes, who in the film portrayed the bald and noseless Voldemort after the resurrection.

16-year-old Riddle from the Chamber of Secrets, we know for the role of Christian Coulson, who at that time was 23 years old. And now he is 37, and he looks a little different.

Finally, the 16-year-old Riddle from the Half-Blood Prince, who has become fascinated with murders and horcruxes, is Frank Dillane. He was 17 then and turns 25 this year.

Dudley Dursley

At the age of 19, Harry Melling, who got the role of Harry Potter's cousin, lost a lot of weight and almost disrupted the filming of the last parts of the film. In the Deathly Hallows, they even wanted to replace him, but they changed their minds and dressed up in a thickening suit.

Below: on the left - the still full 16-year-old Melling in "Order of the Phoenix", on the right - the latest February photo of the 26-year-old theater actor.

Ginny Weasley

Actress Bonnie Wright at age 10 and at age 25:

On her Instagram page, she shared this photo from the shoot:

Weasley twins

Left, 15-year-old James (Fred) and Oliver (George) Phelps during the premiere of the first film in 2001. On the right are 29-year-old twins in 2015.

IN real life the guys love sports, especially golf, travel a lot around the world and do charity work.

Luna Lovegood

An avid fan of the Harry Potter books, Evanna Lynch from Ireland has entered the cast at age 14, making his first appearance in the fifth film, Order of the Phoenix. Out of 15,000 other applicants, she was the best. "The rest could play Luna, but Evanna Lynch is Luna," the producers said. Now the girl is 24 years old, she is an actress, model, designer, health promoter and environmentalist.

The final part of the most successful franchise of modern times premiered

At the morning session in the huge hall of a large St. Petersburg cinema, almost all the seats were occupied, and half were by no means children. The final part of Harry Potter premiered on the big screen. More precisely - the first part of the final series "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (the second part will be released in the summer). Ten years later, one of the most significant and successful franchises of modern times has come to an end. They say the audience wept at the London premiere. In St. Petersburg - no, but judging by the number of tickets sold, ours also care.
The story has “grown up”: the characters have turned from pop-eyed smart kids into adults (according to the plot, they are seventeen, in fact the performers of the roles of Harry, Hermione and Ron are twenty-one, twenty and twenty-two, respectively), and the fairy tale itself, which has never been particularly tender, transformed into a gloomy thriller with elements of teenage erotica. And although it is still too early to formally mourn Harry Potter (the final farewell is ahead), critics sum up, each predicting his own: imminent oblivion or memory for centuries.
What was it? A “case” successfully fabricated by a perspicacious teacher, or a miracle that appeared to her, the conductor of which she became? In any case, Joanne Rowling is forever in history, and along with her, the whole team that served the most popular story in the world.

For shooting in the first part of "Harry Potter" performer leading role Daniel Radcliffe received £250,000. For shooting in the latter - 20 million dollars.

On this moment the Harry Potter film series is the highest-grossing franchise in film history, eclipsing commercial success bondian, star wars and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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Today's children do not want to know Ivan Tsarevich, they do not need Varvara-beauty. They are in love with a bespectacled, smart and red-haired man who knows how to do something that is not available in the ordinary world. Psychologist-consultant Denis Zhelatelev believes that there is every reason for this:
— old fairy tales prepare a person for life, from childhood laying down certain values, images and strategies for actions and decisions. But modern child difficult to identify with Ivan the Fool or Emelya, you need some modern look. It’s just that now there are no good allegorical fairy tales, and Harry Potter turned out to be almost the only fairy tale that deeply affects the problems inner peace person. Growing up and gaining wisdom, the main character (like everyone else) has to solve many psychological problems that every person solves. These are the problems of trust, teenage competition, betrayal, temptations and temptations, choosing and building relationships, etc. And solutions do not come at the wave of magic wand Heroes constantly have to make choices. And this, in turn, leads them to the side of good or evil. It's really good work with an exciting plot, and the film is played by wonderful actors.

The entire color of British cinema is occupied in the Potterian: from Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes and Gary Oldman to Imelda Staunton and Helena Bonham Carter. This was Rowling's indispensable condition: all more or less significant roles had to be given to British actors.

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From these photos you can see how the actors from the Harry Potter film series have changed since the first premiere and up to the premiere. last movie.

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter)

Fun Fact: Radcliffe broke over 80 sticks during filming. The reason for this was his habit of playing them like real drumsticks.

Emma Watson (Hermione Granger)


Fun fact: Gremione's last name was originally supposed to be Pakl, which means "Goblin" in translation, fortunately, it was later changed.

Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley)


Fun fact: JK Rowling came close to killing Ron in one of the books. In the DVD commentary for The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, she said, "Initially, I planned that none of the guys would die, but then it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to remove one of them. This was probably dictated by my not very good mood.

Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy)


Fun fact: Tom Felton's girlfriend, Olivia Jade, played Draco's wife in the last part of the film.

Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley)

Fun Fact: Since her first appearance in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ginny's character has grown a lot professionally. Ginny subsequently became an excellent Quidditch player and then left the sport to become the senior Quidditch correspondent for the magical newspaper The Daily Prophet.

Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood)


Fun Fact: After Luna Lovegood appeared in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Rowling had no intention of putting her together with Neville Longbottom, but after some time she discovered a "connection" between them.

Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid)


Fun fact: Hagrid's hut was hand-built by the film's crew in Glencoe, Scotland. At the end of filming, everything, down to the smallest pumpkin, was destroyed and dismantled.

Alan Rickman (Severus Snape)


An interesting fact: it was rumored that Rickman knew about Snape's fate from the moment he was chosen to participate in the filming. In 2011, Alan Rickman told HitFix: “When we started filming the first film, Rowling had only written three or four books, so no one but her knew how it would end. Before filming began, she shared some information with me about this, which further helped me to play my role as close as possible to the character of the book.

Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom)


Fun fact: by the end of the filming process, Neville turned into a really hot guy.

My name is Joseph James Potter. Throughout the Wizarding world, I am known as the "Boy-Who-Lived", "The Boy-Who-Win-You-Know-Who", "The Chosen One"... The Chosen One... How that word infuriates me! How much pathos!
Yes, everyone thinks I'm a Hero. Winner! Everyone knows my story. Born, defeated Voldemort, survived, lives on.
I don't like my story! I hate all the pseudonyms the press gives me! "Why?" - you ask? “After all, glory is so cool! Everyone knows you, they want to shake hands!” Ron says so.
Yes, I agree, fame is really cool, but it's only when you deserve it! Did I deserve my fame? Maybe I deserved it, because I really WON! Defeated the one whom Dumbledore himself could not lay on his shoulder blades. I prefer fame without pathos and PR, otherwise, thanks to the press, I began to remind myself of Lockons. I think that I can be proud of myself.
I am often (always) asked if I remember HIM, if I remember THAT night. So, with a clear conscience and in all honesty, I will say: “No, I don’t remember either HIM or THAT night.” Only a bright green light sometimes dreams of me at night. The same bright green light I see in the eyes of my brother, Harry, when he is angry with me. At such moments, it seems to me that Avada is flying at me.
Everything changed between us after THAT day. While I don't know what kind of relationship Harry and I had, I suspect it's much better than it is now. I saw that my parents pay more attention to me than to my brother. Yes, I liked it, but I was a child. And children, as a rule, are jealous of their parents for everything. I was jealous of Harry.
I saw his tears in those moments when my mother especially lisped with me and rejoiced at the banal childish “But they love me more!”. I saw that Harry was slowly moving away from our family. He was sent more and more often to Sirius. Sirius has distanced himself from us too, most likely because of Harry. In all our quarrels with my brother, I knew that I would still come out on the right, because my parents are on my side, and this means a lot to children.
We traveled a lot around the world, but without Harry. Dad wanted to understand how I survived, he said that if we could find out, then perhaps a shield would be created from Avada. To be honest, I didn't care. I wanted Harry to see that my parents were with me again.
Every day I noticed that he is changing. At the age of five, he didn’t ask his mom or dad “to handle”, as I did (yes, I’m not ashamed to admit, I was looking for warmth from my parents and always clung to them), he didn’t try to play with me (as he did before ), he looked at me and my parents with contempt. I never saw his tears again. Never.
For birthdays, I was always given mountains of everything, and the whole Magic World, and not just my parents, gave me gifts. Everyone, from the Minister of Magic to a simple shopkeeper, considered it their duty to send me something as a gift. We had mountains of my gifts in our house. Harry didn't get anything. Only Sirius gave him gifts. Parents gave Harry money, more like an attempt to pay off. They forgot to congratulate him, although I sincerely did not understand how you can forget about his birthday. We were born on the same day, they always remember about my birthday.
To be honest, I missed my brother. Imagine what it's like to know that your brother, with whom you grew up in your mother's belly, lives behind the wall in your house and hates you from the bottom of your heart. But it's my own fault. I know it.
I have always envied him. In everything! After all, he was just Harry Potter. An ordinary boy whose life is not followed by the whole world. No one knows where and what he said, where he stumbled and fell, where he sneezed, and who gave him a handkerchief. I'm being followed everywhere! I can’t calmly go out into the street without someone pointing a finger at me and saying “Look, this is the same Joseph Potter!”. I will not hide, it was very flattering. I even enjoyed it: proudly squared my shoulders. And my parents were proud of me. I don't know if they would be proud if I were ordinary. Probably yes... Although... I don't know.
School. An attempt to start life anew, to appear before peers in a different light. I want real friends with whom you can rebel, seek adventure, study school, wander in the evenings, whom you can trust. But all the guys see me as a celebrity, what REAL friends are we talking about. Everyone is eager to get to know the Boy-Who-Lived, not just Joe Potter.
It's frustrating. Incredibly.
In the end, I only talked with Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom, who knows, maybe they can be real friends. Approached the heir of the Malfoys, a fairly well-known surname, extended his hand. I was always told that the Malfoys were, are, and always will be minions of the Dark Lord. They were all in Slytherin. They are all dark mages. Would he extend his hand to me if I were an ordinary boy? Of course not, because not his social circle! It became disgusting for me to touch his hand, and then I sent him. But I didn't expect Harry to stand up for Malfoy. It was the first time he spoke in public against me. He showed everyone our “ideal” relationship with him.
I got angry! No one was supposed to know that our family is far from ideal. Many people were shocked by my brother's statement, I just snorted contemptuously. The next day, the whole school was sure that Harry was simply jealous of the glory of the hero. All the Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs immediately became cool towards him. It suited me. It serves him right!
I didn’t bother about the faculty, because I knew: I had only one way to Gryffindor, where my mom and dad studied. But what the hat said surprised me:
- With your thirst for glory, you are dear to Slytherin, boy ... But you don’t know how to think subtly, you don’t see subtexts anywhere, you can’t reason for yourself. You are interested in the opinion of the majority. You love fame, but you don't know how to keep it. No, you won't get along in Slytherin. Let it be GRYFFINDOR.
What she had in mind and why Slytherin suggested in the first place, I did not understand. Although it does not matter, because I ended up in the best faculty. The hat did not sit with his brother for a long time and very quickly sent him to Kogtevran - to the faculty of arrogant nerds.
So at school, my brother and I parted ways. We often run into each other in the corridors or in joint classes and never sit peacefully: sarcasm from Harry, swearing from me, in the end almost a fight.
In all subjects, I was what is called “not in the tooth with a foot”, I did not understand virtually anything, although tutors studied with me before school. The only thing I was an ace in was flying lessons. I made the Gryffindor Quidditch team and became the youngest Seeker of the century. How proud of me my father was.
However, Harry also flew well, we must give him credit. In his second year, Harry got into the Ravenclaw team, and guess what position ... If you thought that you were mistaken for the Seeker. He went to the beater, as a result, almost every Gryffindor-Ravenclaw match ended for me in the hospital wing, but I still managed to catch the Snitch ... Sometimes. Many wondered with what "love" Harry sends a Bludger at me, but they decided that his brother just wants to assert himself. I will say that Harry played great for the batter, everyone admitted it, and I, reluctantly, including. He could only guide the broom with his knees, without touching it with his hands. I don’t know where he learned so much, we didn’t play Quidditch together, we didn’t even fly on broomsticks together, like brothers.
We are strangers of the same blood.
The only thing we had in common was that Snape hated us both. I knew why he disliked us - it was all because of my father, they were at enmity not like a child.
I, to some extent, even understand Snape. Well, imagine: two sons of a hated person, while one is overly famous, the other looks like his father to colic in the liver. I've always fumed when Snape starts to sarcastically run over my fame and intelligence. Harry had no fame, and his mind is always on top. But Snape, nagging at him, emphasized how sad it was to live in the shadow of his brother's glory. Harry, on the other hand, smiled skeptically at this, clearly showing that he didn’t give a damn about my fame from a high tree.

Harry was hanging around with the younger Malfoy and his classmate Booth all the time. And here I also envied him: he found friends for himself. Friends who also see him as a friend.
I still communicated with Ron, Neville and Hermione Granger, who joined us. I wasn't stupid and I saw Ron cling to me just for the fame. He considers himself the best friend of the Boy Who Lived, but I did not and do not consider him the best friend. For me best friends This is Neville and Hermione. Let the first one be clumsy, and the second one is obsessed with new knowledge, but they are friends with me just like that.

I came home alone for the holidays, Harry stayed at school for all the holidays, except for the summer ones. We used to have holiday parties at our house. At Christmas, Harry didn't give our family anything, just like we actually gave him.

Over time, the excessive guardianship of my parents began to piss me off, and piss me off incredibly. It started at the age of thirteen. My classmates and I were running down Diagon Alley and I stumbled and fell. This was seen by my mother, who was at the other end of the street, and with the speed of a racing broom rushed to me. In front of my peers, she lifted me up and began to kiss the place on my arm where I tore off the skin. Merlin, what a shame! Friends looked at me, and she kissed my wound, asking with tears if everything was fine with me!
Since then, I've been annoyed by their control. As soon as you approach the fireplace to go to the Weasleys or Neville, you hear:
- Sunshine, where are you going? Dress warmly, I will call dad, and he will go with you wherever you need.
I was ready to tear my hair out of anger! Harry, on the other hand, calmly left both the Muggle world and the magical one, and no one noticed this, well, or pretended not to notice.
On our sixteenth birthday in the morning we had another fight. Yes, of course, I agree with my brother, he did not lie that they almost never let me go to the bath alone. The fact is that when I go to the bathroom, my mother constantly comes to the door and asks if everything is fine with me there. Yes, I agree, it's funny. At sixteen, asking if everything is fine in my bathroom! No, damn it, everything is bad, I was flushed down the toilet! But why should I be reminded of this.
After breakfast, he went somewhere, and I did something that I had never done in my entire life. It was the first time I went into my brother's room. It was like a discovery for me, an accomplishment. I opened the door to his life.
His room was bright and airy, although much smaller than mine, with a circle hung on the door, and the floor was covered with a soft black carpet. The walls were completely pasted over with images of some strange machines, I think the Muggles call them motorcycles. Each poster has different models: sometimes with sharp, sometimes with smooth lines, different colors and designs. And they didn't move at all! Magical kids used to paste up the rooms with trinkets of the Quidditch teams they support. And all the images on the posters were moving!
Then I noticed a black leather book on the table. "H.J. Potter" was engraved on it. There was no doubt that it was his brother's diary. But what to do: open and read or turn around and leave? Try to understand Harry or continue to live as you lived? I chose the first one and opened the diary...
He hated... But not me, not my mother and not my father. He hated history itself... He despises us, but does not hate us. He is angry at his parents for giving love only to me, but at me that I used this love and did not want to share it.
"For me, the word 'family' has died a long time ago." I have read this sentence five times. I closed the diary without reading another single entry.
Is everything really already, and we are not a family, or is there still a chance?

Harry returned from his “walk” only in the morning, the fallen umbrella stand alerted us all about this, but, to be honest, I thought that he had climbed through the window into his room a long time ago and was fast asleep. As we all ran towards the sound, Harry stumbled to his feet. It was only then that I noticed that he was drunk as hell. I honestly was taken aback, I never would have thought that I would see him like that. Then, of course, there was a scandal, which Harry scored and went to sleep off. I suspect that everything is still ahead, and I was not mistaken, after all. I don't understand why the parents are so worried about him?
As soon as Harry got down, I followed him and hid behind the kitchen door, but only found the end.
- Why aren't you like Joe! - I heard my mother's voice, in response I heard a sigh full of rage:
- You're right. Why am I not like him? Why did he become a hero? Why, when WE cried, did you comfort HIM? Why did you take HIS side in all our skirmishes?
Why did they take HIM with them when they left? Why did you give toys to HIM and arrange parties in honor of HIM?! Harry was already screaming.
- Why am I not like that? Answer all my "Why?" and then you will get the answer to your question! You yourself are to blame for everything!
He flew out of the room, almost hitting me.
I knew the answers to all his “whys”, and I realized that we really are to blame ourselves. I also realized that Harry was really jealous, but not my fame, no ... He was jealous of my parents' love for me.
It turned out that I envied my brother, and he envied me.
From that day on, the parents began to make ridiculous attempts to talk to Harry, which he completely ignored. His parents arrested him for "drunken debauchery" and firmly believed that Harry observed it. I knew Harry was running away from home to some Muggle friend.
I think it was in the Muggle world that he made this drawing on his neck, it seems Hermione called him a tattoo, but I only noticed him at school, most likely he applied masking charms at home.
I keep thinking: “How can we improve relations?” Hermione said that we just need to have a heart to heart talk and figure it out, then maybe things will get off the ground.
But how can I talk heart to heart with him if, as soon as he sees me, he starts to run into! When we were driving to school, I tried to talk to him, but he ran away to his friends, and I didn’t want to talk in front of them. I decided to try to talk tomorrow after breakfast, but when I woke up I found myself hugging someone's head! Merlin, with a HEAD!!! WITH A HUMAN HEAD! I nearly threw up! I yelled. God, are they all Death Eaters! But how did they get here? Ron jumped up to my scream and, seeing what was happening on his head, I nevertheless vomited ... When Ron was sent to the Hospital Wing, and I was drugged with sedatives, I realized that this was just someone's stupid joke ...
At breakfast, I sat twitchy and annoyed, so much so that I almost killed my own owl, which brought the mail. After apologizing to Rick, he opened the newspaper and immediately turned to stone. On the front page was an article:
"Murder in Diagon Alley"
Two Muggle-borns killed. The murder took place on the thirty-first of August at ten in the evening. The victims were tortured with a curse similar in properties to the Cruciatus spell, and their throats were slit. The dead were found in the backyard of the Diagon Alley Pharmacy. The pharmacist, who discovered the dead and called the Aurors, testifies. The names of those killed at the request of relatives were not disclosed. It is known that both victims were not at all going to go to Diagon Alley that day, both wizards simply went to work through the fireplace and disappeared. They did not appear at work, but relatives claim that they heard the victims call the address of the fireplace from work. Perhaps there was a failure in the chimney network, and instead of working, the wizards ended up at the scene of the murder, experts are now investigating this.
The incident shocked the public. The Aurors have stated that a faint residual trace has been found and is being used to determine the name of the wizard who committed the murder.
Teresa Luin, correspondent for The Daily Prophet.