Jacob Shymanski

I'm always comparing it to the movies.

But it feels like a movie, doesn't it?

It's one of those performances that has clearly not been an attempt at imitation.

Like, for example, Mark Addy as Hagrid.

He sounds a lot like Hagrid.

Annabella Stanton, the girl who plays Hermione in the first three books, sounds just like Emma Watson.

It's crazy.

She sounds almost identical.

Even Harry and Ron, the actors for them.

They sound very much like them.

A lot of the characters do have a level of imitation to their movie counterparts.

By the way, Mark Addy is the guy who played Robert Baratheon in Game of Thrones, which is pretty cool.

You would never think it because there are completely different types of characters, but another actor from Game of Thrones that made it into here was Kit Harington, the guy who played Jon Snow, played one of my favorite performances from book two, and that's Lockhart.

Such an amazing performance as like a big buffoon fraud famous author guy.

So much fun.

And in reading back all of this, the second one, I think might have been my favorite out of the first four.

Yeah, a lot of these characters do have their accents and their personality traits, even their voices, like pretty defined, like Seamus Finnegan is Irish.

Oliver Wood is super Scottish.

I think they actually do mention it at one point.

And so they're very much informed.