Richard Harris filled the role first, but after he passed away the role was taken over by Michael Gambon. This one is a bit complicated, because Dumbledore was played by two different actors over the course of the films. While this may seem like a minor change, it became problematic to the storyline in the eighth movie when the last thing Snape asks is for Harry to look at him and says, “you have your mother’s eyes.” Granted, it is a bit less troublesome given that the actresses who played Lily Potter over the years had inconsistent eye colors. Unfortunately Daniel Radcliffe, who has blue eyes, was allergic to the colored contacts, leaving Harry without his signature green eyes.
In the books there is a lot of emphasis on how much Harry looks like his father but has his mother’s green eyes. So when he found her and she refused to come with him, he murdered her then immediately killed himself. Unfortunately the Baron was in love with Helena while she had no interest in him.
When Rowena was on her death bed, she sent a man, who is now the Slytherin ghost The Bloody Baron, off to find Helena and bring her back. In the books, it is explained that Helena was jealous of her mother, so she stole her mother’s diadem and ran away to Albania. The films do acknowledge that she is Helena Ravenclaw (daughter of founder Rowena Ravenclaw) but fail to explain exactly what happened between mother and daughter. More notable is the choice to not tell the full backstory of the Ravenclaw ghost, The Grey Lady. The scene is a great one that not only gives more information about Nick’s past, but introduced the Headless Hunt: a group of beheaded ghosts who act as an exclusive club that Nick’s nearly headless status prevents him from joining. Some of the most notable examples of this include how, in the second book, Harry befriends the Griffyndor house ghost Nearly Headless Nick and due to this friendship (and his fame even among the dead), Harry is invited to Nick’s Death-day party. Not only was Peeves completely ignored, but the movies also cut out a lot of the storylines involving the ghosts from the books.
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