All 27 Harry Potter Actors That Were Replaced (HP Explained)

1. RALPH Fiennes IS PRONOUNCED HOW I SAID IT… like Rayf 2. CRABBE WAS NOT AN ACTOR CHANGE. His CHARACTER was swapped for another character named Blaise Zabini who was from the books

I actually never realised until recently that the hunched guy was meant to be Tom. They are completely different characters and while the Tom in Philosopher's Stone s clearly meant to be the bartender and owner of the Leaky Cauldron, the hunched Tom just always came off like a page or servant

Richard Harris would’ve been perfect to ask Harry if he put his name in the goblet of fire.

It really sucks that the original Tom Riddle was too old to play him in "the Half blood prince" because he was literally perfect. I loved his performance. I also loved the original Dumbledore.

I still can't get over the performance by Christian Coulson in The Chamber of Secrets. It is pretty much exactly how I would have imagined Tom Riddle at that age.

The recasting of Dumbledore was a perfect tone shift for the movie as well. The first two were great fairytale-like, and things started to get darker from the 3rd onwards.

the goblet of fire: the year everyone needed a haircut

As far as the Dumbledores go, I like to put it like this: Richard Harris was better at showing the calm, grandfatherly, twinkly-eyed Dumbledore Michael Gambon was better at showing why Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort ever feared

My favorite story about the HP movies, is about Richard Harris the original Dumbledore may he rest in peace, wonderful Irish actor actually. But the story goes he didn't know that Fawkes was an animatronic he thought it was a real bird in costume. So between takes and off camera he would continue to talk to the bird and pet it, stroking its feathers to comfort the bird. The puppeteers actually in a different room kept the act up by making the bird continue to act lifelike without telling Richard anything until the film was done shooting. He was too pure for this world. 🥲🥲

Coulson as Tom Riddle in chamber of secrets was just perfect. He was handsome, charming and manipulative. Like he really brought out those young voldy characteristics. I felt like the recasted young Tom was more just creepy. Like all bad vibes. I was confused how they couldn’t tell he was the embodiment of evil lol I didn’t see the charming part though he was still handsome.

“It is Not our Abilities that show what we Truly are… it is Our Choices”. That made me shed a tear. RIP Richard Harris 🙏🏽

The funniest part about this to me is that some of the small actor changes are mostly unnoticeable since you barely knew the character they were supposed to be in the first case while Flitwick's COMPLETE makeover between CoS and PoA while still having the same actor is a thing.

As a kid, Richard Harris was everything i had pictured dumbledore to be, and it broke my heart to learn of his death and how he might have been in the other movies. It l is one of the greatest what ifs

Morgan: Warner brothers hoped we didn’t notice. Tony Stark: Thought we wouldn’t notice, but we did.

I enjoyed both Dumbledoor actors. I think the way they handled it was the best they could do. It’s especially hard to replace an actor who passed away.

Another interesting thing to mention is Alan Rickman almost quitting his role as Snape after the second movie. J.K. Rowling revealed the importance of his character in the later movies to him, which led to Rickman choosing to continue. He never spoke to anyone about what exactly Rowling revealed to him.

I actually really liked Michael Gambin‘s portrayal of Dumbledore. He was able to show us the more manipulative, cunning and incredibly powerful side of Dumbledore

I always joke with my friends and family about an alternate reality where most, if not all, HP actors were replaced after every single movie, and how hilarious the series would be if that was the case. Thinking more about it, it really is a miracle that most of the major actors stayed throughout the entire series.

Honestly, considering how many actors played him and how many different directors they had, riddle was very consistent and clear as a character

Both actors for Dumbledore were amazing. Richard was calm, and had an fatherly vibe with always looking out for his students and Michael did all those physical scenes like a champ! showing us how damn powerful Dumbledore is