Why do Harry's parents look so old?

In the Harry Potter movies, Lily and James are cast significantly older because they needed to look like Harry's parents and match other actors' ages. The Harry Potter movies made many big changes from J.K. Rowling's novels, including the ages of Lily and James Potter.
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How old are Harry Potter's parents?

For years, fans have wondered how the Potter family came to be so rich, especially given that Harry's parents, Lily and James, were only 21 when they were murdered by Lord Voldemort.
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How old was Harry's parents when Harry?

Why have we never considered this before? It's probably something you've never considered before, but James and Lily Potter were actually only 19 years old when they married - and 20 years old when they gave birth to Harry.
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How did they make the Harry Potter cast look older?

No gray, just change his glasses, and hey presto, he looked older! He looked more mature.” Jowl pieces and most of the prosthetics were removed. Intriguingly, Tomblin notes that aging the boys was actually more difficult than the women: “It's so easy, when you're aging guys, to go into caricature.
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Is Sirius older than James?

10 Sirius Black is the oldest (We think)

We learned in The Deathly Hallows that James Potter was born on March 27, 1960. Remus Lupin's birthday is March 10, 1960, which obviously makes him just a hair older than his good friend.
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Are the Marauders the same age?

1) James, Lily, Snape, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were all in the same year at Hogwarts. We know this because they all took their OWLs together in book five. So any fact we discover about one of these people applies to the others as well. 2) Sirius was about 22 when he was sent to Azkaban (Rowling states on her website).
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Will JK Rowling write about the Marauders?

J.K. Rowling: A 'Harry Potter' prequel about the Marauders will not happen. Harry Potter and The Casual Vacancy author J.K. Rowling spoke this evening at the Bath Literature Festival and made clear that if she ever returns to Harry Potter, she won't write a prequel.
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Who is the best looking Harry Potter character?

  • Oliver Wood. Oliver Wood is one of the first characters we get introduced to during Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone. ...
  • Ginny Weasley. ...
  • Bellatrix Lestrange. ...
  • Sirius Black. ...
  • Cederic Diggory. ...
  • Hermione Granger. ...
  • Harry Potter. ...
  • Fleur Delacour.
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Who is Emma Watson husband?

Emma Watson has purposely kept her love life out of the public eye for years, but in May 2021, the Daily Mail reported that Watson was rumored to be engaged to Leo Robinton, her boyfriend of over one year, after the two were photographed out together on May 13, 2021.
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How was Hermione supposed to look?

In the books, Hermione is described as having "bushy brown hair" and brown eyes. Her front buck teeth, already very large, grow uncontrollably in Goblet of Fire after she is affected by a spell cast by Draco Malfoy.
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Was Harry's dad a bully?

All Potter fans know the story: Harry glimpses Snape's “Worst Memory” in fifth year and discovers that his father was not the great guy that any orphaned child would prefer to envision. His dad was a horrible bully who tormented fellow classmates and had a towering ego to match.
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How much older is Petunia than Lily?

Petunia is likely one to two years older than Lily (but possibly as much as five years older) There's no specific birthdate given for Petunia but we can make inferences from the text and movie. We know Petunia to be the older sister which places her birthdate prior to 1960.
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How did Harry's parents get so rich?

The money he was left from his parents came from his dad's side of the family, for they were really wealthy. When Sirius died he left Harry all of his possessions, including his own great wealth from being the sole heir to the Black family fortune.
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Was Lily Potter a Muggle?

Harry Potter's mother, Lily Evans, and his best friend, Hermione Granger, were Muggle-born. Unlike children of wizarding families who receive their Hogwarts acceptance letter via an owl, a Hogwarts employee will usually hand-deliver the letter to Muggle-borns in order to meet their Muggle parents and explain.
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Is Harry Potter a pure blood?

Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling's imagined wizarding world because his mother is Muggle-born and his father is pure-blood.
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Why doesn't Harry have grandparents?

According to J.K. Rowling, all of Harry's grandparents (on both sides) were dead by the time he was born. This is why he was handed off to the Dursley home, where his life became very depressing for several years.
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Is Emma Watson vegan?

So, from a food choice perspective, Emma Watson is not vegan. However, the DEFINITION of VEGAN PERSON states that: “any person that condemns animal cruelty and exploitation and excludes – whenever possible and practicable – animal-based food, clothing, accessories and other products, can be called a vegan.”
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Did the cast of Harry Potter get along?

The 'Harry Potter' cast has gotten close with each other over the years. This is especially true with stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, who have both been with the franchise since the beginning. However, because the two are so strongly opinionated, they didn't get along.
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Did Tom and Emma ever date?

Did Tom Felton and Emma Watson ever date? Not officially—both Felton and Watson have confirmed they never dated while they filmed the Harry Potter films.
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Is Tom Riddle handsome?

Tom Riddle was a half-blood wizard born to a muggle man and female witch. While younger, he had black hair, dark eyes, tall and considered handsome. After regaining his body in the fourth book, he had pale skin, skull-like face, slits for nostrils, red eyes and a skeletal body with unusually long fingers.
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Is Ron Weasley attractive?

It's really just an added bonus that Ron Weasley grew up to be so damn sexy. But for real. In Deathly Hallows, he's tall, athletic, and incredibly handsome (in both the book and the movie).
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Who loved Harry Potter the most?

Hermione Granger is quite possibly the number one fan-favorite character of the series. She's the perfect combination of heart and head, extremely clever but also brave and compassionate. She doesn't always make the right decisions, but she tries hard and stands by Harry when no one else will.
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Why is Harry's dad called Prongs?

James Potter

James's Animagus form was that of a stag, which earned him his nickname, Prongs. Strikingly, Harry's Patronus was a stag and his mother Lily's was a doe, a female deer, showing that the family's characters were in harmony and formed part of the same animal group.
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Why did Lupin not tell Harry about Sirius?

If he had revealed Sirius, he would have to reveal that he had helped train an unregistered animagus (which is illegal), but more importantly, Dimbledore had no idea that Lupin allowed his friends to go with him when he transformed.
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Why are they called the Marauders?

They may have named themselves after the English word Marauders-which meant "raider". This could be a reference to all the people they bullied and "raided" in their time at Hogwarts.
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