Book Hermione VS Movie Hermione and Book Dumbledore VS Movie Dumbledore. Your opinions needed.

I don't know... I actually think movie!Hermione shows a side of Hermione that is genuine to the character but Harry doesn't always see. Hermione is not a 'giggling with the girls' type of person, but she does share a dormitory with them and in HBP Paravati did not seem nearly as Harry did when she played 'giggling girl' in reference of McLaggen. I don't think 'is that really what my hair looks like from the back?' is entirely un-Hermione like either... I mean, she doesn't care about her appearance because she has a different set of priorities in life, but having کہا that, when it is mentioned she can be incredibly self-concious about it, as one of her defining characteristics despite her great bravery and strength is her lack of true self-surity/confidence. When she was younger, she was not pretty and that bothered her to the extent she stopped trying; she instead focused on her intelligence, and when she was introduced to this new, magical world she was so afraid of not-fitting in she read everything in sight so no one could tell her she was worse/less intelligent than a pureblood - which is also why 'mudblood' used to affect her so much. Also, her looks in the movie (I felt) were quite accurate, in that although she did not have the buck teeth and not quite as bushy hair, which admittedly could be better, she always had an understated prettiness that she continued to come into as she grew older and part of that was the re-sizing of her teeth and the slight-flatterning + owning of her hair.

also, as for Dumbledore, which I was going to post as an answer but might as well post here, there is one reason why I never minded the exchange between Harris and Gambon - because the change between, as آپ (slytherinangel) put it 'rom this whimsical loveable man, to this serious and intimidating man, who still shows his massive intellect and wisdom to those around him' is the change Harry subconsciously perceived during the coarse of the books. Dumbledore pretends to be merely this senile, loveable, harmless old man because a) he is a very successful manipulator and knows the power of underestimation as detailed in Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' but also b) he is afraid of the brilliant, powerful side of him because that is the side of him that is attracted to the Dark Arts (like Voldemort). Therefore though in the فلمیں the change as premature, this was definitely a changed that the readers perceived during the series as we struggled with Harry in the 5th through 7th کتابیں about how he could be on the one hand sweet and loveable and on the other complicated, brilliant, scary and having these darker tendencies and making these manipulative, calculated sacrifices 'for the Greater Good'.