Artist reimagines Harry Potter characters as accurate book depictions

27 May 2025, 17:29

By Alice Dear

Yes, that’s right, both Aunt Petunia and Neville Longbottom are meant to be blonde.

An artist and IT graduate from Melbourne has shared mind-blowing illustrations of what the characters in the Harry Potter book series should look like.

The woman – who goes by MsBananaAnna – shared the incredible images to her Imgur account back in 2022, and Harry Potter fans everywhere are obsessed.

Instead of recreating the cast from the Harry Potter films, she decided to reimagine each character’s appearance using only the descriptions given in the books.

And for Potter fans who haven’t read the books and have only seen the films, there’s been a lot of surprises. For example, not many people knew that both Aunt Petunia and Neville Longbottom are meant to have blonde hair.

For fun, we’ve collected the amazing illustrations and put them up against the cast of the Harry Potter film series, just to see how right they cast the parts!

We’ve also included the descriptions of each character’s appearance from the books, just so you can see the amazing job MsBananaAnna did.

Harry Potter

Thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, bright green eyes, round glasses held together with sellotape, very thin scar on his forehead.

Hermione Granger

A bossy voice, lots of bushy brown hair, large front teeth.

Narcissa Malfoy

Tall, slim, very pale, blue eyes, long blonde hair.

Nymphadora Tonks

Pale heart-shaped face, dark twinkling eyes, short spiky hair a shade of violet.

Ron Weasley

Tall, thin, gangling, freckles, big hands and feet, and a long nose.

Neville Longbottom

A round-faced boy with blond hair.

Fred & George Weasley

Short and stocky, red hair.

Lucius Malfoy

Pale, pointed face, and grey eyes.

Remus Lupin

Pale face with premature lines, light brown hair going grey.

Professor McGonagall

Tall, severe-looking, with dark hair tied up in a bun.

Peter Pettigrew

Small and rat-like man, extremely short, grubby skin, small watery eyes with a pointed nose.

Fleur Delacour

Wavy silver-blonde hair and supernatural beauty.

Draco Malfoy

Slender, white-blond hair, cold grey eyes, a pale complexion with sharp and pointed features.

Bellatrix Lestrange

Tall, thin lips, heavy-lidded eyes, a strong jaw and long, thick shining black hair.

Ginny Weasley

Flaming red hair, brown eyes, freckles.

Aunt Petunia

Thin, blonde, and with “nearly twice the usual amount of neck”.

Argus Filch

Pale eyes, thin grey hair, wearing a brown coat, hunchbacked.

Snape

Thin with sallow skin, a large hooked nose, yellow teeth, greasy black hair down to his shoulders and black eyes.

Luna Lovegood

Dirty blonde hair down to her waist, pale eyebrows and protuberant eyes.

Sirius Black

Tall, long black hair, grey eyes, described as “carelessly handsome” before his time in Azkaban.

Dolores Umbridge

Short and squat, a little neck and a wide slack mouth. Also described to resemble a “large pale toad”.

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