Over a decade and eight movies, many Harry Potter characters were recast by Warner Bros. Pictures, both big and small.

Harry Potter has many iconic villains, but one of the worst also flew under the radar so much that fans forgot them entirely.

Some Harry Potter lines never left the fandom. They escaped the books, colonised the movies, and quietly embedded themselves into pop culture as memes, tattoos, and emotional support quotes.

Alan Rickman was one of the few people who knew Severus Snape’s true fate from the very beginning of the Harry Potter films. J K Rowling privately shared the character’s full arc with Rickman, ...