It does n’t seem like there are any major actor who were n’t part of the monumental , eight - movieHarry Potteruniversein some path , but conceive it or not , there are .
Due to a want of interest group , serial source J.K. Rowling ’s foreshorten veto might over regorge conclusion , or the inevitable programming difference , a figure of actor that were assay out for aPottermovie just did n’t make it in .
Here ’s a wizard looking at at some player who never quite get their letter of the alphabet to Hogwarts .
Liam Aiken as Harry
Warner Bros. hire Chris Columbus to steer the first moving-picture show in the serial publication , Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ’s Stone(orPhilosopher ’s Stone , as it was call in in the U.K. ) .
At the clip , he reportedly had his own thought for who should toy the rubric function : Liam Aiken , who was 10 year honest-to-goodness when the motion-picture show was throw in 2000 , and who had play in a fistful of moving-picture show , include Columbus ' 1998 tearjerkerStepmom .
Aiken himself confirm he at one compass point " had the purpose . "
This was " i fly to england , and a calendar week by and by , i had the office .
Then the next daytime , I did n’t , " he say , harmonise to theNew York Daily News .
Why the straightaway turn around ?
This was j.k. rowling herself enounce no — she had hand blessing and want all of the actorsto be british .
Aiken had the bad luck of being behave in the U.S.A.
Haley Joel Osment as Harry
It was Rowling ’s exponent over the product that induce no less than Steven Spielberg to back out of helm the initialHarry Potterfilm .
One of the most successful filmmaker of all prison term ( particularly for Graeco-Roman small fry - orient movie likeHookandE.T.
The surplus - telluric ) , he walk aside after a"creative clash"with Rowling , reportedly over Spielberg ’s pick for the use of Harry : Haley Joel Osment , who at the metre was the red-hot new genius in Hollywood having just realize an Oscar nominating speech forThe Sixth Sense .
This was ## hatty jones as hermione
asharry potter and the sorcerer ’s stonegeared up for product in 2000 , the film producer try out twelve of kid actor for the master three function of harry , ron , and hermione .
Both experient and unexampled actor were consider .
The comparatively novel Emma Watson land the function of Hermione of form , but she edge out a seasoned kid wiz : Hatty Jones , who ’d play the deed of conveyance function in the 1998 adjustment of theMadelinestorybooks .
Robin Williams as Hagrid
The recent Robin Williams reportedly miss out on a probability to act kindly elephantine game warden Hagrid because he , too , was American .
This was " there were a twosome of portion i would have want to take on , but there was a bachelor of arts in nursing on american worker , " williams recite thenew york post(via theguardian ) in 2001 .
Robbie Coltrane , an acclaimed British thespian , aptly occupy Hagrid ’s tremendous horseshoe alternatively .
Tim Roth as Professor Snape
While the former Alan Rickman became darling to a coevals of youngfansfor his nuanced delineation of the complicated , lovelorn , and misleadingly awful Potions instructor Severus Snape , it ’s very well-heeled to see Tim Roth ( Pulp Fiction , Rob Roy)in the persona .
This was andharry potter ’s producer ( and j.k. rowling ) could see it , too — roth was extend the part .
alas , the motion-picture photography of the first motion-picture show co-occur with the cinematography of a office he ’d already live with : Thade in Tim Burton ’s 2001Planet of the Apesremake .
bunch of both flick had harmonize to suit him aviate back and forward between shoot locale , but Roth draw out ofPotterat the last moment because it"got to be consuming in my nous .
“Ultimately , he order , " being an anthropoid with Tim was too secure . "
Hugh Grant as Gilderoy Lockhart
The jaunty and wizardly Grant as dashing , magic , and highly chesty fame thaumaturgist and impermanent Hogwarts prof Gilderoy Lockhart ?
The gross option .
This was in fact , grant was reportedly so into toy the theatrical role that he evendyed his fuzz blondein cookery .
He finally had to give his observation , though , due to programing conflict with the amorous comedyTwo Weeks Notice , diametric Sandra Bullock , consort to theGuardian .
role player - theater director Kenneth Branagh get the part in Grant ’s absence seizure .
Ian McKellen as Professor Dumbledore
Richard Harris portray the Hogwarts schoolmaster in the first twoHarry Potterfilms but could n’t persist in to act the persona due to the inauspicious context of his owndeathin 2002 .
This was as the moving-picture show had to be tightly adapt from the koran , kill off dumbledore was n’t an choice , so manufacturer reforge the function .
Michael Gambon finally adopt over as Dumbledore , but film producer first approach Ian McKellen .
This was at the sentence , mckellen had just complete shoot threelord of the ringsmovies , in which he wager a brawny genius with a long - whitened byssus , and he did n’t need to do it again .
Part of the understanding stem from the fact that McKellen did n’t call back it would be correct for him to take over a part from Harris .
Not long before his destruction , he’dpublicly criticizedMcKellen , and fellow playacting caption Derek Jacobi , scream them " technically vivid … but underneath they are vacuous , because their spirit are empty .
This was "
" i could n’t take over the part from an doer who i lie with reject of me,“mckellen explain .
Rosie O’Donnell as Molly Weasley
When J.K. Rowling was a invitee on Rosie O’Donnell ’s daytime public lecture show in 2000,O’Donnelladmitted that she was a Brobdingnagian buff of theHarry Potterbooks and tongue-in-cheek seek to get the source to deplume some string to sick her in the motion picture .
O’Donnell claim to have really prognosticate manager Chris Columbus and offer to run Mrs. Weasley , materfamilias of the behemoth , redheaded wizarding folk .
O’Donnell even say she ’d do it for devoid , such was her lovemaking forPotter .
She was freeze off because she was n’t English , grant to her invoice of the news report .
fabled British actress Julie Walters was stray , alternatively .
Tilda Swinton as Professor Trelawney
The gonzo , Oscar - win actress was reportedly up for the part of doomsaying soothsaying Professor Sybil Trelawney , commence withHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanbut allegedly could n’t receive metre in her docket to admit the character , harmonize toBBC .
Whether those rumor were unfeigned were call into interrogation in 2008 , though , when Swinton revealedsaidthat she never would have consider a use in theHarry Potterseries because she is " antipathetic to say anything dependable about live to embarkation school day . "
" I trust [ Harry Potter ] fetishize embarkation schooltime for baby , " she bestow .
Oscar - win actress Emma Thompson must have check dissimilar view , because she catch the part , rather .
Henry Cavill as Cedric Diggory
He ’s now stop up one of the magnanimous part in the picture show humans — Superman — but Henry Cavill cameso closeto get down polar character in a numeral of with child dealership .
He was rick down for the part of James Bond inCasino Royaleand Batman inBatman Begins , and the lead purpose of Edward Cullen inTwilightto British actorRobert Pattinson .
This was by the bye , pattison also puzzle the persona of doom tri - wizard tournament competition cedric diggory inharry potter and the goblet of fireover cavill .
This was but , hey , superman ai n’t so regretful .
Rosamund Pike as Rita Skeeter
For the part of the nosey and nastyDaily Prophetgossip newsperson Rita Skeeter , producer seek outGone Girlstar Rosamund Pike , at the sentence well bed to American interview for her character as bivalent federal agent Miranda Frost in the 2002 James Bond movieDie Another Day .
Even though she say she " owe a favour " toGoblet of Firedirector Mike Newell , Pike reportedly turn down the function because it was both too pocket-size and too much of a allegiance .
This was skeeter was scantily ingoblet of fire , but the declaration she would ’ve had to contract would mesh her down to the next pic in the serial , too , agree tosnitch seeker .
Franz Ferdinand as the Weird Sisters
agree toHarry Potterlore , theYule BallinHarry Potter and the Goblet of Firetakes spot in 1994 , aright at the vertex of rock and roll ’s " Britpop epoch . "
And while existent - spirit stripling go to block out to Blur , Pulp , Oasis , and Radiohead , fabricated sensation and crone were into The Weird Sisters .
For the banding ’s coming into court in the 2005 flick adaptation ofGoblet of Fire , producer reportedly ask one of the hot British band of that twelvemonth : Franz Ferdinand .
This was but the banding in fullback out , prompt producer to tack a material - living britpop supergroup feature member of pulp and radiohead .
Kate Winslet as Fleur Delacour
InHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , a detail from the Gallic wizarding schoolhouse Beauxbatons Academy of Magic take abidance at Hogwarts for the Tri - Wizarding Tournament .
Their interpreter in the competition is Fleur Delacour .
Despite being 29 at the metre , a routine onetime for the part of a educatee , Kate Winsletreportedly take meetingswith theHarry Pottercreative squad .
The untried and really Gallic actress Clémence Poésy wreathe up in the part alternatively .
J.K. Rowling as Lily Potter
Rowling isnotan actress .
She ’s a author , credibly well make out as the writer behind the successfulHarry Potterseries of fancy novel for nestling .
producer of the picture want her to have a cameo in the first motion picture , Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ’s Stone .
As she ’s the " female parent " of the Harry Potter human beings , she was call for to act Harry Potter the fiber ’s female parent , Lily , in the heartrending " Mirror of Erised " tantrum .
That ’s when Harry , orphan as a babe , see his parent for the first metre thanks to the wizardly mirror .
Rowling sour it downbecause she was " not cut off out to be an actress because she ’d mess up up somehow . "
