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This is a list of Harry Potter cast members who portrayed or voiced characters appearing in the film series. The list below is sorted by film and the character's surname, as some characters have been portrayed by multiple actors.
Draco is in Slytherin’s house and constantly bullies students from Gryffindor, specifically Neville Longbottom. Draco also gets Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville in trouble when he challenges Harry to a duel at midnight. Draco is always accompanied by his two other friends, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle.
- Albus Dumbledore – Michael Gambon. An actor like Michael Gambon needs no introduction. He joined the Harry Potter film series with Prisoner of Azkaban after the untimely death of the original Dumbledore actor Richard Harris.
- Severus Snape – Alan Rickman. Rickman unfortunately passed away in 2016 at the age of 69. The actor had a huge career outside of the Harry Potter film series, starring in well-known films like Die Hard, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Love Actually.
- Professor McGonagoll – Maggie Smith. The actress who played Dumbledore’s right-hand man has slowed down her Hollywood career after Harry Potter. Still, she’s had some big roles: She co-starred in the Downton Abbey TV series as the hilarious Violet Crawley, and will appear in the upcoming movie.
- Lord Voldemort – Ralph Fiennes. Ralph Fiennes was a very established actor before the Harry Potter films, so naturally, that has continued since the series wrapped.
- Harry Potter. The hero and protagonist, Harry is a twelve-year-old boy with messy hair and glasses who became famous within the wizard community by surviving the curse of a powerful wizard.
- Ron Weasley. Ron is tall, red-haired, and from a respected but poor family. Ron is one of Harry's two best friends at Hogwarts. He is loyal to Harry, and belligerent to their enemy, Malfoy.
- Hermione Granger. Hermione is always the top student in her class. She is clever and well-read. Most spells come easily to her and remain in her encyclopedic mind.
- Voldemort. Once a student named Tom Riddle who attended Hogwarts fifty years before Harry, Voldemort became the most powerful dark wizard ever. When Harry was a baby, Voldemort killed Harry's parents and tried to kill Harry, only to have his curse backfire and render him powerless.
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Gryffindor. Born. 31 July 1980. Harry James Potter is a fictional character and the titular protagonist in J. K. Rowling 's series of eponymous novels. The majority of the books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Harry, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard.
The Fat Friar was a wizard, who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in his youth, and was sorted into Hufflepuff. He was a jolly man and very forgiving. He devoted his life to religion and, after his death, returned to the school as the resident ghost of Hufflepuff House .
