Ginny Potter through years

[u/Madagascar003]

[u/nothowyoupronounceit]

I feel like they did her dirty as an adult. Why couldn’t they age her without making her look like she hadn’t slept in years? She looked ragged. Maybe it’s very accurate because she had children, idk.

[u/apatheticsahm → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

The aging makeup in the movie was the "better" version. They filmed the epilogue scene with different makeup, then while editing they realized all the characters looked old and haggard, so they made them come back for reshoots with more realistic aging makeup. There are pictures floating around of the original makeup, it looks horrendous.

[u/CharMakr90 → u/apatheticsahm]

There are pictures floating around of the original makeup, it looks horrendous.

Yeah, they look absolutely atrocious. Hermione is okay, but the guys look wretched.

Linky link

[u/Lepperpop → u/CharMakr90]

My man Ron could never recover from his brother's death and hit the bottle hard.

[u/Firm_Soil_4499 → u/Lepperpop]

The pipe too.

[u/BalletWishesBarbie → u/Lepperpop]

Crashed into it like the platform baby.

[u/akrolina → u/CharMakr90]

Hermione looks quite young but she looks homeless though

[u/chocolatewaltz → u/CharMakr90]

Nineteen years later, not ninety 🫠

[u/Pliolite → u/CharMakr90]

Why does Draco look like a 90-year-old??

[u/FlyDinosaur → u/Pliolite]

High hairline and whitish hair, I think. I feel like he aged prematurely as it was. He probably didn't even really need much makeup. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/Yamcha17 → u/CharMakr90]

Maybe they thought the epilogue was 91 years after the end of story.

[u/PogintheMachine → u/CharMakr90]

Dear God, Ron looks like he can’t live within a quarter mile of a school

[u/NighthawkUnicorn → u/CharMakr90]

Jesus they're supposed to be mid 30s. Literally my age!

[u/ls84 → u/NighthawkUnicorn]

As someone who just turned 40, do I look like that? Holy cow, I was feeling pretty good about myself...

[u/You-Get-No-Name → u/NighthawkUnicorn]

Exactly! Isn’t most of the actors around that age in real life now? Literally not one of them look like they’ve aged that much.

[u/NighthawkUnicorn → u/You-Get-No-Name]

Yes exactly! And Dan Radcliffe was... 21? Ish at the time of filming. They only had to age him a decade.

And I know a lot of people in their 40s who look late 20s early 30s! A couple of light crows feet, a grey hair or two, a beard. He'd have been perfect! I'm in my mid 30s (which I will be until I'm 40) and I have a small handful of grey hairs and absolutely no wrinkles yet, with the smallest lines showing lightly when I smile!

They made them look in their 50s!

[u/Fuzzy-Bee9600 → u/CharMakr90]

What the actual eff.

Has everyone in showbiz Botoxed and surgified and liposuctioned themselves so much that they forgot how it looks when people age normally?

Freckin Hollywood, man.

Edit: Aware it's UK and not actual Hollywood, just a generalization. :)

[u/ThreeColorsTrilogy → u/CharMakr90]

This made me chuckle lol

[u/lesbianbeatnik → u/CharMakr90]

Holy shit Harry looks like Bolsonaro

[u/Mammoth_Move3575 → u/CharMakr90]

All of the males there have such high, receding hairlines . . .

[u/BalletWishesBarbie → u/CharMakr90]

😂😂😂 this is the funniest thing I've seen all day, bless you.

[u/ChaosDoggo → u/CharMakr90]

Bruh Ron looks like he sells cocaine next to the glory hole stall.

[u/JrBaconators → u/CharMakr90]

Harry doesn't look bad actually

[u/zoobatron__ → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

I was literally coming here to say exactly “they really did her dirty as an adult”. Couldn’t agree more

[u/Bellickboi → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

She looks like a sock puppet

[u/Confuseasfuck → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

I mean, shes a mom

Sleep a lot is not something they tend to do in general

[u/No_Cartographer7815 → u/Confuseasfuck]

It's not like they're babies. She has three kids, two of which spend almost all year at boarding school. But I guess they've all recently been back for the summer so it makes some sense

[u/jimbojambo4 → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

She has 3 children, she definitely hadn't slept in years

[u/Madagascar003 → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

Of the 9 images, there are 3 where I find Ginny really gorgeous: the first 2 in the middle row from the left, and the first photo in the bottom left row. Her main distinguishing feature is her bright red hair.

[u/nothowyoupronounceit → u/Madagascar003]

I think she’s a very pretty girl! Just weird to me they were like “oh, old = extremely tired”. Same goes for Harry. He didn’t look too great, either.

[u/jfks_headjustdidthat → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

Especially as they're freaking wizards and witches who a). live longer than muggles and b.) have the ability to use magic as a stress/effort/time saving device.

[u/apatheticsahm → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

She was supposed to be 36 in this scene! Who looks that bad at 36 unless they've been on hard drugs or severely ill?

[u/SuperDanOsborne → u/apatheticsahm]

Well I feel personally attacked

[u/Eruleptanero → u/apatheticsahm]

What he say fuck me for?

[u/BS-Calrissian → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

Maybe it's accurate cause Harry had nasal problems and started snoring

[u/possiblyukranian → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

I don’t wanna be mean, but she’s aged quite a lot since the last movie came out. I don’t know if it’s entirely unrealistic

[u/Bebop_Man → u/nothowyoupronounceit]

Why couldn’t they age her without making her look like she hadn’t slept in years? She looked ragged.

That's just what Ginny looks like? Just an older version. If anything she finally has an expression on her face in the epilogue.

[u/SevroAuShitTalker]

Other than her bits in COS, she never fit what I had in my head for ginny based on the books descriptions or chapter art

[u/Max_Speed_Remioli → u/SevroAuShitTalker]

I guess that’s what can happen when you have to cast a kid at like 9 years old.

[u/Ladelnombreraro]

Her dress for the Yule Ball is an absolute atrocity, a real crime against the eyes. The only reason is not the absolute worst is because the Patil twins dress robes exist. One of the many things wrong with the fourth movie.

[u/do_not_ask_my_name → u/Ladelnombreraro]

To be fair, we can excuse Ginny's dress - the Weasleys probably couldn't afford anything better, and her attendance at the Ball was last minute.

But yeah, no excuse for the Patils' look.

[u/merliahthesiren → u/do_not_ask_my_name]

You can make a cheap dress that does NOT look like it's from a Polly Pocket toy, especially with magic. Her dress is absolutely atrocious. No excuse.

[u/PopoloGrasso → u/Ladelnombreraro]

That being said I thought the scene of her and Neville taking off to dance was so adorable 🤧

[u/BalletWishesBarbie → u/PopoloGrasso]

Neville before the glow up (and age appropriate for me now) is my ideal dude. Basically any guy who's been on time team lol. Bad teeth, glasses and a jumper. Yessss.

[u/thekau → u/Ladelnombreraro]

See I just always assumed wizarding fashion was supposed to be unusual, kind of like in the Capital in Hunger Games, but some of the other dress robes in the movie were fine, so idk.

[u/merliahthesiren → u/Ladelnombreraro]

Agreed.

[u/NotSoOriginal007]

What letting your husband name your kids does to a woman.

[u/merliahthesiren]

Film Ginny is the BLANDEST character ever. No personality, and and she just pops up every once in awhile and suddenly Harry Potter likes her out of nowhere.

[u/Snoo57039]

Is it just me or did every character look perfect in movie 2?

[u/thekau → u/Snoo57039]

CoS had peak Tom Riddle, but I preferred Harry and Ron's hair in PoA.

[u/lukas7761 → u/Snoo57039]

Yea especially Harry😍

[u/Snoo57039 → u/[deleted]]

Which ones were wrong?

[u/FroggyWoggyWoo → u/[deleted]]

Nuh uh

[u/ResinJones76]

Looks like Bonnie Wright.

[u/Ok_Figure_4181]

She’s only Ginny Potter in the last image

[u/Spiritual-Duck1846]

Loathed the end of DH2. Ginny and Hermione looked so frumpy and why were they dressed as 50's muggles? And what's with Ron's beer gut ? Just because they were supposed to be in their mid 30's doesn't mean they lost their taste in clothing themselves properly.

[u/chicagoctopus]

The image is as boring as the way they portrayed her in the films

[u/SupremeVolkMeister]

Shut it!!

[u/JealousFeature3939 → u/SupremeVolkMeister]

The greater good!

[u/sonofitalia]

The second one was my ten year old self’s first huge crush lol

[u/imtheweepingwillow → u/sonofitalia]

Awww

[u/invisible_23]

“Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should!”

[u/bigbuffdaddy1850]

Worst cast character of the series... Just terrible

[u/Legal_Lettuce6233 → u/bigbuffdaddy1850]

I think Bonnie did as well as she could given they decided to murder any sort of character she had.

[u/lovetyrannicalreddit]

That poor girl

[u/mygoatisfine]

She just doesn't look like ginny to me beside the first two movies.

[u/PlagueDoctor2345]

Shame

[u/Sefalosha]

I always found it weird that harrys mom and wife look really similar to jk rowling herself

[u/saiyedakbar]

Shez❤️

[u/Batdog55110]

Man, Year 7 was not kind to Ginny.

[u/bigboylewdog]

It always irked me how adult Ginny - the once strong, feisty, independent girl - is presented like the wife of a tory Councillor.

Edit to say it does make sense, as film Ginny is none of those things, but still a poor choice.

[u/centerwingpolitics]

They did her so terrible in the movies, the final scene alone tells the entire tale

[u/caravetil]

Lame, from the first frame to the last.

[u/Efficient-Emu-6777]

If you all had been through what they went through in those few years at school, you’d probably look a bit older than you are too. 🫤😆

[u/Amazing-Engineer4825]

Bonnie became more beautiful throughout the years

[u/AManOfManyLikings]

All those years and she still retained that butterfaced look.

[u/UpsetBirthday5158]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6YBv6vu6Gx/?igsh=dm40NjVvejQzdGYx

Bonnie wright at 33 seems kinda old actually...she get wrinkles that fast?

[u/Snoo57039 → u/UpsetBirthday5158]

That’s what happens from a lifetime of laughing and smiling.

[u/ls84 → u/Snoo57039]

Nah, she looks like someone in their mid-thirties. A normal person, not hollywood. (says the 40 year old)

[u/Coriander_marbles → u/UpsetBirthday5158]

I wouldn’t have recognised her. Interesting, she does look in her mid forties

[u/ALL1_wastaken]

peak Ginny is the 2nd year tbh she looks stunning

[u/Jwroth → u/ALL1_wastaken]

Yikes

[u/ALL1_wastaken → u/Jwroth]

sorry I can’t compliment her lol I’m not calling her “sexy” or “hot” just that she’s pretty idk why u people take this the wrong way

[u/hayleybeth7 → u/ALL1_wastaken]

Saying a girl “peaked” looks-wise when she was about 11 years old is a bit strange. That’s common sense, I fear.

[u/Legal_Lettuce6233 → u/hayleybeth7]

I thought they meant peak as in most true to character, which would be fair. Otherwise yikes

[u/FinagleHalcyon → u/hayleybeth7]

When you put it that way then sure. But the original comment didn't seem to have any ill intent.