AI Reimagines 5 Harry Potter Characters Based on Book Descriptions

Jim Clyde Monge
5 min readJul 9, 2022
Harry Potter in movie and AI interpretation
Side-by-side comparison of Harry from the movie and Dall-e2

OpenAI’s Dall-E2 took the internet by storm in the last few months.

The AI is packed with powerful capabilities from generating images with textual descriptions, and inpainting, to making variations of an existing image.

Today I want to put its impressive capability of making surreal portrait images from textual descriptions to test.

One of my favorite movie series is Harry Potter, which from what I know has some key differences in the appearance of the actors when compared to the way the characters were described in the books.

So here’s what the Harry Potter cast would have looked like if they were reinterpreted by Dall-E2.

Harry Potter

Book description: A boy with thin face, black hair and bright-green eyes. He wore round glasses. very thin scar on forehead

Harry Potter in movie and AI interpretation
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For starters, the Harry Potter from the books is described as having unruly, black hair, while the film version of Harry has much lighter hair. This was likely due to…

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