HP characters and their screen cousins

[donnaimmaculata]

You know how sometimes when you read HP it strikes you that you've met this character before, under quite dissimilar circumstances? I was listening to OotP the other day, and when I reached the passage where Draco rolls his eyes, wiggles his tongue and pulls grosteque grimaces (or something along these lines; it's hard to keep track of what silly thing exactly Draco is doing in which book), I realised: Draco is Chandler Bing.

Think about it. Far from being the Ice Prince of Slytherin, Draco is the class clown. Plus, he's indeniably got that certain, ah, quality (much discussed in season 1, if I'm not mistaken).

Also: headstrong, attractive mother who knows what she wants? Check. Blond, attractive father, who likes prancing around, runs off with the house boy... elf... boy, and joins some dubious cult movement where he can indulge in his fondness for extravagant clothes?Check. And Pansy Parkinson is so Janice.

In supporting roles:

Hermione Granger as Monica
Luna Lovegood as Phoebe
Ginny Weasley as Rachel
Neville Longbottom as Ross
and
Crabbe'n'Goyle as Joey

Seriously. Can't you just picture Crabbe'nGoyle grunting "How ya doin'?" at random girls? And I know Harry thinks they're ugly, but we know that Harry appreciates the slender, elegant type and ignores the butch.

On a similar note: Fanon!Sirius and Remus are so Scott and Mike from My Own Private Idaho. It's almost as though the movie was an AU version of the average Sirius/Remus post-Hogwarts fic.

Comments

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Draco as Chandler?

Don't see it. ^^ I don't know Friends, but Chandler, from the sounds of it, seems more like Harry or Ron.

[titti]

Can't you just picture Crabbe'nGoyle grunting "How ya doin'?" at random girls?

I will never see them in the same light again. *giggles*

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, but does he get his TV Guide sent to Dracandaler Molfay?

[shocolate.livejournal.com]

See, I have always said that the central thingy is a brother and sister and his best friend, who marries the sister, so you have...

Harry as Chandler - Harry is very sarcastic!funny...
Ron as Ross - which pains me, as I adore Ron...
Ginny as Monica

That gives you her friend...
Hermione as Rachel - for Ron/Ross (so NOT write Ron/Ross)

You cannot get away from...
Luna as Phoebe

and that leaves sex-God
Neville as Joey

[gmth.livejournal.com]

For the win!

[cutecoati.livejournal.com]

*wipes eyes*

I'll never be able to watch Frinds again without giggling like mad!

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

*giggles* That is so true.

Also, so nice to see you around. *g*

Swatkat

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Yes, but neither Harry nor Ron have a dad who'd look good in silk and pull off a stage performance in a gay night club!

I'm just being silly. That's all.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Crabbe'n'Goyle are teh sexy, I tell you! And kinky, too - what with polyjuicing into 11-year-old girls. I bet Joey would love that, too.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that. But he goes to Yemen when he's on the run - e.g. from Voldemort's wrath.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Much more suitable dynamics-wise than my concept, but you must admit that Draco and Chandler share the same parents. I mean, really - James Potter would so not prance around the stage of a sleazy night club. In a silk dress.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I went through a Friends phase before Christmas and watched all seasons on DVD within a mere few weeks. Now all the information I processed are leaking out ;-)

BTW, in the process of catching up on my flist I read your Sound of Music sporking yesterday and realised how blissfully ignorant I've been with regard to that film. I never knew it was based on a true story. I only knew there was something about a singing nun. And hills. And many children. But that's about it.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the clever insights into canon!

I'm only popping by, really. But it's nice to see my fandom friends again, albeit briefly.

Your yesterday's Death post made me realise how much I adore Death, BTW. I've got to re-read Reaper Man. He's such as sweetie. And he likes cats, which is always a good thing.

[shocolate.livejournal.com]

No - your Senior Malfoys have given me something to ponder, definitly.

I was just trying to shoehorn the Fantastic Six into friends - you know I never spare much thought for Slytehrins.

And I love Sex-God!Neville.

How you doin', Professor Sprout?

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I don't care much about the Slytherins, either, but Draco-as-Chandler (Drandler?) was too good to resist, even though I had to make him friends with Hermione & Co.

I never thought of making Harry Chandler, because Harry doesn't try to be funny. He just is. - And I really do find him hilarious at times. His conversation with Ron while peeling sprouts in HBP killed me dead. (Yeah, well, passing over Fred's left buttock-) I don't know why this makes me laugh so much. (As opposed to Draco, whom I don't find funny at all.)

SexGod!Neville comes with Joey's lewd grin, of course.

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

"Sure you can write to me, Pansy. I'll be at, er, 15 Yemen Road, Yemen. And yes, pumpkin juice would be perfection."

[shocolate.livejournal.com]

I was listening to the sprout scene on my iPod on the Underground the other day - so I was smiling broadly and occassionally cackling - I must have looked like a lunatic!!

But the Harry and Ron bits - and the twins teasing Ron about Lavender - pure gold!!!

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

"...just send it to Dracandaler Molfay, that's my name transcribed in, ah, Yemenitish."

Dracandaler Molfay makes sense, though, what with the spell-checking quills.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Even though I've never really like the twins, I must admit that they produce some high-class comedy occasionally. They're growing on me. Harry and Ron are great together. - As you well know, of course ;-)

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Ooh, kitties! That site *is* named appropriately. And yes, it's impossible not to like Death. He's sweet and wise and tries so hard to be human.

I really need to thank you for reccing Discworld to me - I had no idea what I was missing.

Swatkat

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Although they aren't really much alike (Joey's like the reverse Ginny witht he 7 siblings, six sisters), Harry is more like Joey than either Chandler or Ross because Harry is basically cool. He's more likely to beat someone up. And his father is even more Joey-like. (So's Ron, actually, because they're both kind of "everyday guys" in their way.)

Draco, it's true, is more rich, neurotic and squirrly with the crazy family. It's not that Chandler is funny, like you said, it's that he's kind of compulsively being funny and so can try to hard. Of course, I personally do find him funny at times--his comments on Hagrid's class are pretty Chandler-ish, I think. That sort of "Oh yes, the world is insane. How silly of me to forget. Carry on." Harry's humor, even at its most wry, still comes attached to his power, if that makes sense.

[divinelight.livejournal.com]

Isn't it Miss Dracandaler Molfay? ;)

[rogueravenclaw.livejournal.com]

Here via daily_snitch

Oh my. I can see all of this...

I could also see Seamus as a Joey. I don't know why.

[paperdialup.livejournal.com]

Here via snitch.

I always do this. With everything. Buffy... Grey's Anatomy... Scrubs... Lost... you name it.

...

Ron is so Xander. Buffy is of corse Harry. Gender aint nothin' but anatomy.

[titti]

I know, they rule, and they aren't 'dumb', they are 'Joey dumb'.