Does anyone else miss the long floppy hair from GOF?

yeah! his hair was soo good in Azkaban and Goblet of Fire, and now it's all short. what the heck?

I didn't like Harry's hair in OOTP, it made him look too old.

I hope they let him grow it a bit and have it longer for HBP.

HIPPO

yep i agree! harry is supposed to have hair that is all over the place and he cant keep it calm so what do they do?-make it short and stay in one place.

Bring back the longer hair!!!

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Agreed. GoF hair was amazing. When I think of Harry's hair, I think of something I'd want to run my hands through---wild, messy, long & soft. Not short and stubby haha

I can't believe I'm actually evaluating the merits of haircuts...

Oh well.

PS: I didn't like Dan's hair in this one; it was all plastered down and neat, which was the opposite of how it's described in the books.
CoS: His hair was okay here. I didn't really notice it much, to be honest.
PoA: Great! Dan was really starting to resemble Harry more at this point.
GoF: Pretty good, but perhaps it would have been better if it had been just a tiny bit shorter. That's just my opinion though.
OotP: Er... no comment.

Did he perhaps have to cut it so short because of Equus or something? Hopefully it will have grown out a bit by HBP.

Ahh the dreaded H*** word!

Harrys' hair is supposed to be long and messy, never under control. Its not nearly that discription in the ootp movie.

My favorite was Prisoner of Azkaban. Sorcerer's Stone was ok, can't really remember what his hair looked like in Chamber of Secrets (oops!) and Goblet of Fire was slightly too long. As for Order of the Phoenix, I thought it was ok too. I seem to remember watching or reading an interview with Daniel Radcliffe talking about his hair. But I can't seem to find it, and I can't remember when or where I saw it. But I remember him saying they had cut his hair short because of the trial. Can't find any information though, so I might be wrong!

Yes/No.

I liked it when he kept it combed...but other times it resembled like a very furry dog was resting on his head. It was just terrible.

It looked like he had it combed with a pick to make it bowl shaped.

Harry's supposed to have messy hair...not puffy hair. Messy hair is "bed" hair...not making his hair a mound.

You know what I mean?

His hair was short when he went and filmed "December Boys," and that was before Equus.

That's why I think he had it cut for "December Boys," because his character lives in an orphanage...in which case you'd have your hair likely short.

His hair was absolutely perfect in PoA. It was that pefect length wear it could be messing and sticking up everywhere and windswept but not long like it is in GoF.

Harry's hair was perfect in PoA. That is how I've always pictured it.

Is it just me, or no one seem to noticed Daniel's hair COLOUR in OOTP? I don't think it is well...black.

I like everyones hair in GoF, personally I like longer hair. I didn't notice the non-blackness of his hair, but I've always been a harsh critic of his eye color, its blue!, not green like his mothers.

I think it was short because of December Boys, which was set in the 1960s? It was longer in Equus, quite nice actually, messy on the top but not as long as POA.

I preferred the POA hair. That's how I picture Harry in all the books- basically as Dan in POA.

You might like to know that a recent picture of him shows it grown longer, almost shoulder length- POA length, but he's about to film a WW1 film any day soon so will he have to have it cut for that??

I didn't like his hair much, his recent haircut is lacking somewhat.

Well when I saw Harry's hair in the trailer for OOTP I was like, "WHAT DID THEY DO TO HARRY'S HAIR!!!" I'm guessing it was short for Dan's role in Equus? But I still hated it since he didn't look like Harry Potter to me.

In Goblet of Fire it was too long.. I loved the Prisoner of Azkaban hair the most! That was THE Harry Potter hair..

OMG I'm just going to stop discussing hair right now...yeah

i agree i LOVE longer hair.
i was mad when i seen them all short.
yeah i noticed that his eyes were blue and not green. [i even agrued with my brother about it. even thoe he had no clue what i was talking about.]

I can't believe I'm weighing in on this, but I agree... Dan's hair was too short and way too neat in OOTP!

hopefully the messy frock we have all come to love will be redeemed in HBP.

SS - Hate it! Too flat, nothing like Harry's.
CoS - Still, too flat. That made him look like goody-goody little mama's boy.
POA - Loved it! The best look i think. He looked hot with that hair. Look alike Harry by far.
GoF- Good. At first i really loved it, but then watch it over and over his hair was in the average good for me.
OOTP- Hate it! At first though. When i saw the still pictures not yet the movie. But when i actually watch the movie (2 times) I gotta say i loved it. The second best after POA. He looks more matured with that hair and quite handsome too.

So my ranking is 1. POA, 2. OOTP, 3. GOF. (I hate the first two SS and COS.)

To me his hair was best in PoA...in fact everyones hair was best in PoA...

GoF had the worst hair by far. Some people were barely recognizable

Everyones hair looked perfect in POA.I actually like his hair in GOF,it looked nice and messy enough.But OOTP...err...it wasn't the best look! It was way too short and just plain weird looking.What was the little hair bits at the front about?? Apparently the producers said it made him look more handsome as "Harry cut it all off in the summer out of frustration" Pretty rubbish excuse! All through the flashbacks in OOTP,I thought "Oh Harry,we miss your old hair..."

Awe, I too miss Harry's floppy hair of the past. Another thing I missed in OOTP was his scar... for most of the movie it is not visible. Did anyone else catch that? I've seen the film twice... so far may go again this weekend and I have now started searching Harry's forhead for his scar, which is either not there for most of his scenes or I really need glasses lol. Did anyone else notice this or am I going mad????

its not as dark a red as usual...and his little fringe gets in the way....but u can just spot it in OotP.

i liked his hair in PoA too....he was perfect then...just like harry...OotP hair was too short...hope he doesnt cut it again between now and filming..

i really like how his hair looked in ootp, and in poa, but i really hated his mop in gof! it was cringe worthy.
perhaps his hair was a little to neat in ootp, but i thought it suited the way the character was maturing really well.

as for his scar. its hard to notice isnt it. im not sure why they did that.

OK, let me think and recap on the styles so far:
PS/SS: Here
CoS: Here
PoA: Here
GoF: Here
OotP: Here
HBP: Here

I think for the first three films Harry's hair progressed fairly naturally, CoS particularly resembles "my" Harry at that stage. But the change from GoF to OotP was fairly drastic. I don't particularly like the Tommy Lee rocker look of GoF but at least it doesn't conflict with canon descriptions. But IMO OotP just doesn't look well on Dan, and secondly is incongruous with the continuous canon descriptions of Harry's messy and uncontrollable hair. But differences from the source material is to be expected in a movie adaption so that can be overlooked but I just dislike the lack of consistency in the character costuming/appearence. HBP isn't too bad, it's reasonably close to the PoA style which I thought looked pretty well for a maturing Harry

So...
Fave: CoS
Least Fave: OotP

Thanks for the pictures Askaban_Angel, Harry's hair looks kind of messy in all of them. I've never really had a problem with Harry's hair in any of the films. A teenage boy is going to change his hair every now and then.

The haircuts sported by Harry in the first two films seem to be the traditional "bowl" style for young boys and I thought Dan looked cute. There were only a couple of times when I thought his hair looked awful and they occurred in GOF. The scene after the Quidditch match in the tent before the Deatheater attack and another scene towards the end, when Harry & Dumbledore where in Harry's dorm room...both times his hair looked like a badly teased wig perched on top of his head. I'd don't know if the "poufiness" can be helped though, Dan's hair looks pretty thick.

Yeah, it's funny the way fans obsess over hair...I think it's sort of common with a lot of fandoms. Remember the American TV show "Felicity?" Fans of the show complained & ranted when the title character cut her hair and the ratings dropped!

i personally think his hair looked the best in prisoner of azkaban.as for worst, i would have to say in goblet of fire.
on the topic of hair, who has seen Draco Malfoy's?!!!!!!i think it looks the best on the latest pictures of Half-Blood Prince I have seen so far.

I completely agree, except I like his hair in PoA best, GoF second best. In PoA his hair was so messy and all over the place, just like Harry in the book! And I really hated OotP too. Did the producers really say that?! I didn't know that! Agreed with the rubbish excuse...if they cut it off they should at least make up a decent excuse. The little hair bits were very horrible. In a bunch of pictures there was one curl of hair. It looked quite...strange. I thought the haircut in OotP made him look way older than he was supposed to look, and even older than Daniel Radcliffe was. He looked like he was in his thirties, IMO.
This is my order of his hair from favorite to least favorite:
PoA
GoF
CoS and SS/PS are tied
OotP (I didn't even like this one a little bit)


You're not going mad. It definitely got fainter. Everytime I watch the movie, I get annoyed because i can barely see it. It's supposed to be more vivid. And has it always been that far to the right of his forehead? I don't know if it's just me, but it seems to me like Harry's scar is getting further to the right side of his forehead with each movie. Is this true, or am I imagining it?

infestedwithnargles, i love your avatar!

and i agree- the best hairstyle was in POA, and the worst was GOF. i just thought it was a bit too long and shaggy in GOF...
i like harry's hair in the photos i've seen from HBP tho.

hehe this is a funny topic...

The hair is in fact supposed to be shaggy. GoF was actually the best, but unfortunately it was followed by that ridiculously short haircut in OotP. Ugh.

I think PoA was the best. It was scruffy and a bit messy but it wasn't too long and out of control like it was in GoF, although I still would prefer that hair to what it was in OotP.

Wasn't his hair black in the 1st movie ( like described in the books) and brown later?

I loved his hair in GoF, I want it back. It is ( like you've already said) supposed to be messy, and not short. In OotP his hair was TOO short.

Harry's hair was good in movies 1-3. Goblet of Fire scared me. It look like Farah Fawcett was in charge of hair on that set and it bugged. Men weren't meant to have Farah do's. Now OotP, I think maybe it had to be short because of Equus, however, it didn't need to be plasterd to his scalp. Harry's hair was short in PoA too adn they managed to get the rumpled look right. They could have accomplished Harry's hair in OotP by laying off the mousse and rumpling it up a bit. It's not a hard look to achieve. It was like they gave Harry's hair to Fred & george in OotP. If they could accomplish it with them why not Harry?

The worst has to be OOTP and the best POA. In POA it was the most accurate, and i actually had a bit of a crush on daniel at this point, i loved him with that hair. in GOF i think it was far too long, they should have kept it the same as POA (maybe a bit longer for a bit of change). 1, 2 & 3 were his best hair cuts

SS or PS he was little so i think the look fit him but its to round i think
CoS better than SS but not by much
PoA loved his hair in this movie the best out of all of them the only part I didn't like was when he was in the quidditch match and it was all wet and he had those stupid goggle things on
GoF loved it when the movie came out but I watched it recently and its I little to long but I think it still looks good
OotP really like it in this movie only part I didn't like was when he went to the trail and it was all slick
HBP looks like its going to look good for this one fingers crossed

I do miss his long hair from GoF
When i watched ootp and his hair was short i was disappointed

OK....

i like dan's hair kind of short but not as short as it was for ootp. but i don't like it short for Harry Potter. Alotta ya'll are totally right his hair should be exactally like it is in the books (the was it was in Azkaban/Goblet. but not alot of people complained when dudley's hair was brown in the movies but it was blond in the books. but thats probably because hes not a main character and stuff. but SADLY it can't be the same in the movies as it is in the books. Especially all the diff. plot twists and leaving characters out. so yea.....

hate to repeat, but yes, POA was definitly the best hair, and OOTP was the worst. in GOF it was alittle too long, but ok, i think it'd be second best. PS and COS were ok too. i just hope they dont do OOTP looks again. siriusly, he looked awful. no offense, dan.

i know! in GOB, thts how i imagined his hair. And u could actually SEE the scar in GoB, in OotP, his hair was TOO short, and u could BARELY see the scar!

I soooo wish they would have him grow his hair out........ It looked soooo HOTT, im from the eighties so maybe im a bit biased!! LOL Im also very dissappointed in Dracos new look, Tom can make anything look HOTT mind you but its just not as sexy as POA!! Bring back the sexy long hair people!!

I loved Harrys hair in GOF

In the books, it's written that Harry's hair won't lie flat, which I take to mean that it sticks up. On special occasions, he tried to make it lie flat, but its natural state was unruly.

I tend to picture this as looking like he has a serious cowlick in the back of his head. If that's not messy enough for canon, then my back-up image is that he looked like he's just gotten out of bed after his hair's gotten quite messed up in his sleep. So, for the most part, I feel that Harry's hair was a bit too tidy in the first two movies. There are a few moment when it looks a slight bit untidy on top, but it's not too noticeable. Hence, I don't feel it's as messy as canon says it should be.

In the third, it was a lot closer to canon, in my opinion, but it was a little too stylized, I felt. Harry never struck me as the type who'd spend time styling his hair. I think of him as the kind of boy who brushes his hair right after he gets up in the morning (or combs it right after his shower, whatever the case may be) and doesn't do anything else to it the rest of the day. In fact, the way I see it, if he was at the Burrow during the summer holidays, he might not even brush it until after breakfast, since he's not trying to avoid negative attention being paid to him (as he would at Privet Drive), and there are no teachers there to dock points for looking untidy. So, I thought that his hairstyle in the third movie looked like it required too much styling time and products. In canon, this is still the boy who wears Dudley's huge hand-me-downs when he's in Muggle attire. He isn't focused enough on his appearance to spend time on his hair. He accepts that he can't control it, and he moves on.

I personally hated his hair in the fourth movie, and it affects my enjoyment in watching that movie to this day. His hair isn't just unruly in that movie, it's long and unruly. That seems to be the style in that movie, though. Ron and the twins all have long-ish hair, and I think all four boys look less handsome because of it. It detracts and distracts from their good looks. I don't think that Molly would have let her boys grow their hair that long, either, not the sons who still lived at home especially. She lets Bill get away with it because he's the oldest son and of age, and she can't really force him to cut it (though she can repeatedly suggest that he should). But, she even cut Charlie's hair not long before Bill & Fleur's wedding (against his preferences), if my memory's correct. I think Charlie only submitted to that because it was a formal occasion, and I think his hair was needing to be cut because he'd been too lazy to do so and tended to focus more on his work than his appearance. So, he wasn't making a personal statement with his hair; he'd just let it go. But, I digress.

I personally loved Harry's hair in the fifth movie. It looked great on him. It also made him look older than he had in the fourth movie, and I think of that as a good thing, story-wise. In Order of the Phoenix, he's starting to think less like a boy, and more like a young man. Also, in this movie, his bangs (or fringe, I guess it would be called) more or less covers his scar, which would be something Harry would try to do, in order to try to minimize being recognized whenever possible. Even though I think his hairstyle isn't as messy as canon says it should be, I also try to qualify it as having been cut so short because Harry was trying to keep the messiness factor under control. One point I'm thinking about: in this movie, he's wanting to date Cho, so he might have learned that he ought to work a bit harder on his appearance, in that case. Hence, shorter hair would be easier to keep tidy.

I know, I put way too much thought into this discussion point, but it hit a nerve with me, since I can't stand his hair in the fourth movie. Sorry I went on so long.

i think its cos it was still short from the last film he did(forgot the name). it looked a lot better longer though! ! in the books it does say his hair was messy and he could never get it to lay flat...

Long and messy is the way to go! He looks much better that way, and now we are on the hair toppic, I would like to see Hermione with her book hair for once. Much to neat and sleek in the films!

I think Emma really only had Hermione hair in PS/SS(HERE), where it was slightly crimped and frizzy/bushy. Even in CoS it was that bit too primped, it was sleeker, with waves rather than frizz (HERE) But the most drastic change was most definitely in PoA. From then on the costume dept. seemed to give much less attention to canon descriptions of hair. Gambon-Dumbledore's hair was off too, it was wrong colour and too short. And also in GoF Madame Maxime should have had a sleek bun but instead she had a bob

There aren't too many characters whose hair is described in such detail, you think they could honour the ones who are

I agree about Hermione's hair. It was only slightly bushy in PS/SS, but after that it was never really close again. The only thing I could somewhat see as being even slightly canon-esque in COS through OotP is that she has very simple hair, as in not looking like she spends much time on it, since, as in canon, Hermione doesn't have the patience to bother much with it (although in canon, it's the bushiness that she has to spend the time using the Sleak-Easy to control for the Yule Ball and says she wouldn't do that every day). I have observed that most, if not all, of the female Hogwarts students have simple hair and makeup. One might expect for there to be a few teenagers there who want to stand out with "notice me" hair and makeup. I wondered if that was a requirement, like wearing their uniforms and robes for classes and meals, but if they did more "out-there" hair and makeup for their off hours, you'd think we'd see that when the film characters are wearing jeans and other casual clothes. Just some "wondering"s.

I do like Hermione's hair in POA through OotP, even if it's not the bushy hair that exists in the books. (I didn't like the straight bangs, especially combined with the curly hair, so much in COS. I have naturally curly hair, and if I had bangs, they'd be at least somewhat curly or even just wavy, since there isn't a lot of length to the hair to weigh it down. There are parts of my hair that are curlier than others, but there's always some amount of wave going on. I do realize that everyone's hair is different, though, and Hermione could straighten her bangs, if she wanted to.) So, my point is her hair is pretty in POA through OotP, even if it's not canon-correct. I wonder if there was a conscious decision somewhere early on that they wanted the audience to be able to see Hermione as pretty, so the bushy hair went out the window.

I could see the filmmakers wanting to put the kids in more relaxed, "normal" kids/teenager clothing for POA through OotP, rather than looking like they were always ready for a photo shoot for clean-cut young wizard and witches. (I'm not saying I didn't like their clothes in the first few movies, but I could see where this wouldn't be the way that kids dress all the time, since Hermione probably wouldn't always be wearing a skirt and tights, every minute of every day, for example.) Since I'm not familiar with the requirements of a private school or boarding school, I wondered if it was normal to let the students go so lax with their uniform's appearance (as in the Buckbeak Care of Magical Creatures class scene) during class hours. (I do realize that in this particular class, like Herbology, the students would have some expectation of getting a bit dirty, due to the nature of what they're studying, but what I'm wondering about is whether Prof. McGonagall, for example, would allow them to have their shirts untucked, sleeves rolled up, robes off or askew, if it were her class they were in. I also realize that Hagrid wouldn't likely stand on ceremony the way that McGonagall might, though.)

I hadn't thought about how Dumbledore's hair has changed when the actors playing him changed, nor about Madame Maxime's hair being wrong, but you're right. I have missed Dumbledore's half-moon spectacles being gone for a while now; just like the long hair and beard, it was part of what made him "Dumbledore."

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