Who SHOULD have been Sirius?

Agree with Dimpled - young Ollie Reed would have been perfect.

Ian Mckellen would have been great if he hadn't done LOTR

I like Luscious Malfoy, I think it's the barbie wig

Aragorn should have been sirius i agree. Altho there was only aniggle about the character being wrong.

Dumbledore is just wrong now. The first guy played it just right - gentle and sincere like the books. How inconsiderate of him to die like that [joke]

Most of them are perfect...all the children, the weasleys, Snape definatly!, lockhart was the perfect sleazy up himself tw*t, Imelda staunton is growing on me. When i read the book i envisaged a human version of ros friom monsters inc!

I couldn't see McKellen as Dumbledore at all.

I do not like the castings of Lupin, Molly Weasley, Umbridge or Hermione at all. I thought Umbridge would be much more unattractive and toad-like and Emma Watson is too attractive to play Hermione who is supposed to be a plain bookworm. Lupin was completely insipid, though I did see him as a blonde.

I think thta Bonham-Carter will do well as Bellatrix, though think it would be hard to get the role of Narcissa played to perfection. Lucius is done so well, it would be a shame to ruin it.

Sirius - young Ollie Read

DG - Sirius is sex on a stick. He is bad and rule breaking but deep down good. He is loyal and honourable and turned aganist his family. He is edgy and takes risks. But hey - you like dumbledore!

Gary just didn't do the Sirius thing for me - although he is a fab actor. I think he would have been better at Lupin. Sirius should be sexy, dark and brooding - and a bit mad - and a bit camp?. Can't think of anyone though - Johnny Depp is the nearest I can get and he still is not right.

Liked Ken as Lockhart.

Adore alan as Snape.

Robbie IS Hargird

Love Lucuis Malfoy

Julie Walters is great - not to sure about the one who plays Mr Weasley though.

Trewlany Emma Thomson - no.

Agree Bella LeStarnge needs to be more anguklar than Helena.

I am hoping that book seven includes a speccy dark haired 3rd year girl. by the time they film it my daughter will be old enough to shine in that role.

Also agree about Helena BC, as Bellatrix. She looks awesome in the trailer for HP5. Hermione Norris as t'other one v good suggestion.
I thought Emma T was ok as Trelawny tho. Not keen on Gamdon as Dumbleydore But thought Harris was perfect. Don't think Ian McKellen could've been Gandalf and Dumbledore tho. And think he was perfect as Gandalf, he just is Gandalf IMO. Gamdon is too loud. Dumbledore supposed to be soft spoken.
Hmmmmm, would love to cast them myself.
Hagrid perfect tho and the Weasley's. Not keen on the twins tho. Not how I pictured them.

I'm sure Ken and Emma were both in things before but FoW was such a big hit they became big stars after it. The Sirius attraction for me comes from the way she describes him when he was younger - good looking, bored, arrogant, clever - stupidly exactly the kind of bloe I go for.

I think Red Nose Day, or something did a rip of Harry Potter and Jeremy Irons did Snape. He was fantastic and I think Rickman is not mean enough AT ALL. He doesn't have the acid edge that I thin is essential to Snape and his whole character.
I thought Ken had the lovely smarminess of Lockhart.
Sirius is good, but was very disappointed with Lupin as had a bit of a crush on his character when I read the books.
Does that sound really wierd??? Hope you know what I mean by that.

It was a condition of teh contract I believe between JK Rowling and Warner Bros that ONLY British and Irish actor/actresses are used. Which I think is only right, it's her book after all. However< i often go on mugglenet forums and there are a lot of young (11-17) US teenagers who really need to get a grip on their world geography. One person commented that Ewan mcGregor would be good in a role only to be told by a 14 yr old from Idaho that "Ewan McGregor can't be in the film, he's Scottish, she only wants British actors in the role"

Please someone explain the attraction of Sirius (the book character, not the film actor) because I just don't get it.

Apart from Dumbledore, I too liked Lupin in the books - I see him as a gentle man, kind, but hugely tragic. He will get his reward one day I feel.

Oooh oooh I think the chap who played Aragorn in LOTR would have been fab as Sirius he's gorgous!!!

Have to admit, I am a big Oldman fan, but he just didn't seem to fit the character I'd imagined when reading the book. The Prisoner of Azkaban was my fave HP book and I especially liked Sirius' character. I don't think enough focus was put on his character in the film...

Nah, I remember seeing Ken B in stuff long before Fortunes of War! He played an epileptic once ....... can't remember the name of that.

Saltire - crossed posts. I suppose Imelda Staunton is a good option for Umbridge. She's clearly one of the most evil characters ever. Boco - FoW was one of those series I keep hoping to find repeated on UK Gold or something, but it never is. It really was good and launched both Ken and Emma's careers.

SSM thank you - that's it! It was great wasn't it, one of my first big love crushes.

Hermoine Norris would be ok... i think of narcissa as being very very angular - like tilda swinton in narnia. she has to be cold and skinny and evil.

i bet gywneth paltrow would kill for the role, but they do seem to only cast british actors/

I always thought Sirius was supposed to be really good looking and charismatic when youger, but become scrawny and deranged while in Azkaban, so for me Oldman wasn't right. Not sure who would be better though. I love Ken B as Lockheart, he's one of my fave actors anyway (seen him on stage and he's amazing). Boco - that series with Emma Thompson was called Fortunes of War and it was fab. I'm having concerns about who they're going to cast as Dolores Umbridge as surely that should be Miriam Margoles but she's already in it as Sprout.

I think helena Bonahm Carter will be great as Bellatrix, and if they do include the role of Narcissa in the films (which they should when they make half-Blood Prince)then it should be Hermione Norris (cold feet) who plays her.
the problem I hav eis that i read the first 2 books after the films came out, so i had already picture most of the characters in ym head. When i read OoTP book I alwyas inviasged Imelda Staunton as Umbridge, and now she has been cast as her

I'm not sure about Gary Oldman as Sirius, but like Flame, I'm not sure who I would have chosen.

That's just it ... I don't see Sirius as wiry at all... that's why Oldman felt so wrong to me.

Have to confess that originally I thought Brian would have made a good Hagrid - but Hagrid has grown on me as is, and would hate to change him now.

Lockheart was brilliant, Trelawny terrible - couldn't see why ANYONE took her seriously from the films yet she had her followers in the books. Love the actors for Harry, Hermione and Ron. Snape is superb - can't read the books without seeing Alan Rickman now. Ron's mum and dad are perfect.

Lupin - almost cried when I saw Lupin, he was my favourite character in the books and he was just so ... insipid... in the films.

We all agree with Robbie Coltrane though?

As Hargad/Hagrid?

If Brian Blessed went anywhere near Harry Potter, it would have to be as Fudge, but Robert Hardy does a perfect job of that part himself.

No no, Brian Blessed is all booming and bafoonish, not wiry and dark and brooding