Its really amazing how long this would have taken for you to do this! Everyone says well done, but not a lot know how much it and how long this actually take! your work is just amazing and everything you do for your subscribers aswell, it’s just so amazing!! i have been watching you since around 2021 and I can say that your work has changed for the better! Well done

it's _insane_ that ginny had more screen time in the movies compared to her appearances in the books and yet they STILL managed to make her *so much blander* in the movies

It ends with 7 perfect matches in a row. 7 is a very important number in the HP franchise. How perfect.

It's crazy how iconic some of these characters are but only have like 2 or 3 minutes of screen time. Kudos to the actors for making those characters stick in our heads

The extra time for Shacklebolt in the films was worth it for “Dumbledore’s got style”

Makes sense the top 7 are so balanced. The Golden trio is the main group, followed by Dumbledore as the wise man guiding them and Snape with his complex history etc and presence during all years as a teacher. And then there are Voldemort and Draco, the 2 main antagonists

Amazing presence of Tom Felton. 31/8 is not even 4 minutes per film, yet his internal struggle feels like a constant gnawing in the back of your mind throughout the entire series.

Gilderoy getting himself more screentime than time in the books is such a Gilderoy move! 😂😂

I am so shock to learn that Ginny is #8 in screen time with more than 30 mins in the movies when she was so invisible to me in the movies. She is literally higher in the movies than in the books yet she have more of a presense in the books. She is a wallflower you won't really notice in the movie. LOL

It still hurts to think Bill Weasley's casting was so good just so he was wasted on screen 😠 Great video! The amount of time and effort you put into this is admirable! ❤

It's pretty crazy how some characters can be perfectly matched in this ranking, while having their spot in the story almost completely removed for the films. Yes, I'm thinking about Dobby. The fact that he's perfectly matched, while only being in 2 films, is insane considering how much more important he is to the story in the books

I think the problem for the weasly brothers is this: There is a lot of talk going on in the family, when Bill, Charlie and Percy are not around, so naturally their name gets mentioned a lot in the book even when they are not present in the scene. The same goes for different other characters like James Potter. Lilly gets her screentime from the scene of her death, where james is already dead and from snape's memories. James is present mostly in harry's thoughts and the talks with Sirius and Lupin.

I like how Peeves made as many appearances in your video as the movies! Another perfect match!

Crazy that Lockhart basically in a single film has more screen time than Molly Weasley over the whole series.

There it is. The number 7 in the Harry Potter universe, with the Top 7 being the same 7 characters in the exact same spots for book time as well as screen time, giving us a streak of 7 for perfectly accurate.

The fact that people like Ginny and especially Dobby are so close to their book ranking, yet SO much of what happened to or with them in the books is left out, really emphasizes the fact that the films left out a whole lot more than you would initially think or realize...

One reason for the James and Lilly difference in the books and movies is that most of the book mentions say things like "You look just like James, but have your mothers eyes." There were also other times where she was mentioned as his mother while James was mentioned by name, such as all the times he has visions of his mom being killed by Voldemort. That would give James more mentions, though Lilly likely had much more (or at least comparable) "screen time" in the books. The same is true of Nagini, who is often called a snake, but is in the background or taking part in more book passages, such as the whole time Nagani possessed Bagshots body. I would also be curious how many more mentions each professor gets if you count people calling them Professor. Good job. It would be awesome to see how much time people actually had in the books, but that would be an insane task, and your solution is a great one.

Can we all respect how long it takes for him to make the videos and effort he puts in for us

It’s crazy to me that while technically Dobby’s numbers match up perfectly, he’s actually left out A LOT in the movies compared to the books in terms of the things he does for the trio. A perfect example is his aid to the trio in the 4th and 5th books

It's incredible how some of these actors made such an impact with less than 10 minutes screentime spread across 8 films.

WOW, that's crazy how across all those hours of film, Draco is only on screen for 30 minutes. Hard to really comprehend until you break it down like you did. Thanks for the awesome video as always.

“I would milk Helena Bonham Carter too”- movieflame

Thanks so much for doing this video. I’ve actually been wondering for a while now about the different characters and the difference between movie and book appearances/mentions, but never had the patience to figure it all out. I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Thanks for you and your fiancée’s hard work!

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It’s pretty crazy that Dobby is on the exact same spot in the movie and book ranking, considering that he was cut from so many movies.

Just so you know Ron is mentioned just 13 more times in the books then Hermione is if I remember correctly, which I think is wild given they were mentioned each about 3500 times, that's some insane balancing, 1 scene can change the standings. Also I was quite surprised to see Ron having more screen time then Hermione as they gave a lot of moments from him to her. But if you'd go by lines, Hermione probably crushes Ron, I'm to lazy to do that tough

I know for a fact that everyone can appreciate this video and how much work went into it. I love the Harry Potter franchise and everything about it. (Except for the cursed child lol) Everything is so perfectly planned out in your videos and we should all appreciate how much hard work goes into these videos. Thank you so much for doing what you do!!

The care that you put into this is amazing! Thank you for this wonderfully made video!

The research you put into your videos are amazing! This and the family history into the characters of Harry Potter are just crazy researched. That’s a ton of dedication

It's insane to me a dog has more screen time than Charlie, someone I always thought was cool because of his job with dragons. Wish we had more of him (and Bill)

How fitting that Voldemort's numbers combined add up to 666, the number of the devil, which if you think about it is insanely accurate since he was the main antagonist. Absolutely incredible video as always!! Keep up the great work

I’d never take as much time as you do to make sure that we love your content. Amazing job Morgan

Seriously this must have taken forever. It shows how much u love these books and movies and how seriously u take the videos. Great job

Even though Moody is Crouch in disguise in GoF, I always think of him as Moody until the end. Especially if you're counting mentions in the book, where he would have been mentioned all throughout GoF until the end. Amazing video!

I am still disappointed Peeves didn't appear AT ALL in the movies. He was probably my favorite ghost and he also greatly contributed to the scene of Fred and George's departure being one of the best scenes in the franchise.

Enjoyed this immensely!!! Thank you so very much for all your hard work. It really helps us during the down times and through the ever present depression. TY TY TY 🙏🙏🙏 so very incredible how you crunched all the numbers with each character in both the page and on screen!! TY TY TY 🙏🙏🙏 it’s too bad we can subscribe more than once!

This was really cool. As a content creator myself, I am amazed at how in depth and long your videos often are. I really hope your fans have some appreciation for the amount of time and effort you put in. Just the editing would be a nightmare. By far one of the best done channels on UKposts. Hope you hit 2M soon.

Hey man I just wanted to say these videos really help me to zoom out from all the problems I’m having in my personal life for 30 mins I can go back to my naive and happy childhood and remember the times I was reading these books. Thanks a lot.

It's amazing how you came up with this ranking and comparison system. I was surprised it worked so well.

Impressive and amazing! I would never in a million years have thought about doing this awesome video and even less having the fortitude to actually do it. Excellent work! Now I'm curious about the same in a book by book comparison :). Also, it would be interesting to measure the characters in the books by how many paragraphs they were active in instead of a name count.

I love how much work you put into these videos! You are amazing Morgan! Thank you for showing us things we didn't know we wanted to know!!

So fitting there was 7 characters in a row that got perfect matches, the number 7 sure pops up a lot throughout the series so that's pretty cool, awesome video as always, the dedication to finding out all these times are wild but amazing

Your videos never fail to be interesting, thought-out, and entertaining! I always appreciate your content.

Dobby actually blows my mind, he is in like every book it feels like since Chamber but was only in two movies so I’m impressed that it still evened out perfectly!

This is so interesting! I always look forward to your videos because they are so creative, well explained and unique. Thank you for all your time and effort!

This video is true example of a video I never thought I wanted to watch, but somehow enjoyed watching nonetheless. Great job, really appreciate all the effort you put into this I cannot imagine how long it must've taken!

This is really interesting! Thanks for taking the time to do this. It sheds a lot of light on the differences between books and the movies based on them. However, I wonder how things would look if you measured "book time" in different ways. I understand why you chose mentions (because you can hit ctrl-F and count the number of hits). However, characters are not always referred to by name -- they might be pronouns ("he" instead of "Dobby") or other ways ("Harry's Uncle" instead of "Uncle Vernon", "The Minister" instead of "Cornelius Fudge"). And you get mentions in passing of characters that might skew your data (for example, Snape often gets discussed in the books even when he is not involved directly in the books' action). I'd love to see a version of this where you looked at book scenes in more detail. In other words, look at the books on a scene-by-scene basis, list the characters who have major involvement in that particular book scene, and then count the number of words/pages to quantify how long the scene is. I think the results would be roughly similar, but there would be some critical differences. I think Moody/Barty Crouch is a good example. Really, Moody's screen/book time in Goblet should go almost entirely to Barty Crouch, but since Moody's name pops up instead of Crouch's, you get highly skewed results (as you pointed out). You could also look at different metrics like the percentage of scenes that involve the given character, percentage of total screen/booktime, and so on. Fascinating! Thanks again.

I appreciate you making this as it takes a lot of time :)

Amazing work. Can't imagine the effort it took but we love you for it.

What a cool concept for a video Morgan! I can imagine it took a lot of time to compile. I would be curious how you would compare those that have dialogue in the book though, as that would certainly shift the ranking quite a bit. Either way, solid work!

I’m watching this when it was uploaded 7 days ago. Last 7 characters were 7 perfect matches. I admire your hardwork! This is amazing!

This is a fantastic video that you should be proud of your research on. I've wondered some about the characters vs the mediums so this really hit the spot.

Honestly, this is really cool and impressive. It’s something I’ve thought and wondered about before, so thanks for showing us!

This is incredible, the sheer amount of effort you put in your videos is insane

You are awesome Morgan! These videos are amazing and I love to watch you talk about Harry Potter!

I appreciate you going through and collecting all of this, lot of work.

I saw the teaser of this video and I was so excited like oh my God you did so good in this video. I hope you have an amazing day or a year. Honestly, happy 2023

I appreciate your effort and time for all the videos you made ❤

I think it makes sense that a lot of the minor characters in early books rank a good bit higher for movie time. The books get so much longer as they go, while the movie lengths stay about the same across the series, with the exception of book 7 of course. So someone like Lockheart being only featured in book 2 for example. Book 2 only accounts for about 7% of the whole book series by pages, while movie 2 takes up about 13.5% of the runtime of the full series of movies. So proportionately we get nearly twice the potential time with Lockheart

This is actually something I also always wondered, thank you for your valuable info!

Mate, this is amazing! Good job doing all the research which is all very interesting. Great editing on the video as well. Keep up the great work!

The closer matches for the bigger characters make sense since there is less flexibility about what the directors could do. They can't easily substitute a main character for a scene etc. Thanks for investing so much of your time. It was an interesting topic.

I would leave this as soon as I realized that it'll take me a month to do, amazing dedication to still go through with it. Good job! What's also amazing to me is Harry's screen time. Almost thrice as much as his best friends, while in theory they were basically living together for 75+% of the time.

7:58 Mundungus fletcher was also mentioned in book 2. Mr Weasley came home from work after the boys stole the flying car to save Harry from the Dursleys. He mentioned Mundungus Fletcher had done something to mess with him at work that night

Great content and i appreciate all the time you put in this video for us all, thank you

Thanks for making all the effort to make videos like this one. Looooooove it! Much appreciated! 😍

So much hard work u put in your vids! Its insane you got a new subscriber:D

Very impressive, and very fun! My biggest takeaway is that movies likes putting animals in frame, and that a lot of the actors that will forever be those characters in my mind have like two minutes of screen time.

I think they missed a trick with the movies by not introducing and writing in Cedric in the earlier films (at least TPOA). Would have made his death more impactful.

Love this, thank you so much for your hard work!! 🔥🔥🔥 I'm wondering if you will include characters that appeared in the background of the movies but weren't mentioned properly but we know it's them, like hannah albott, susan bones, Ernie macmillan, terry boot etc? Or other house ghosts like Bloody barron?

It is amazing the level of work and dedication you put into your videos!

Interesting and well done! I have a thought about Nagini though -- was she referred to a lot as just "a snake" and not by name, lowering her supposed mentions in the books? For example, when Harry saw in his mind her attack on Arthur, how many times did it refer to her and did it ever use her name, because he wouldn't have known it at that point?

Crazy how much work you put in. Just one tiny remark: book mentions doesn’t nescecarily equate book appearance, Bill, Charlie and Percy for example were frequently mentioned conversationally so they wouldn’t be in the scene in that case.

Great video. Very informative. It blows my mind that most of the characters have less than 1 hour of screen time in almost 20 hours of total movie time. Really enjoyed this one!!

Such an interesting video! I love HP statistics! Thank you for all the work you put in

Dude the amount of time and dedication you put into your content is unreal, much respect.

Gotta appreiciate the amount of effort this man puts into his videos, amazing keep it up

Amazing research and efforts put in this video! HatsOff Morgan 💯🙌🏼

It’s also interesting comparing their screen/book time vs their popularity! Like Zabini 6:42 is one of the lowest mentioned in the books and movies yet one of the more popular characters

Question: with Peter Pettigrew, did you also use his 'rat' appearances? Same with other people that were mentioned like 'my father' or 'my mother.' How did you do those?

This is a ridiculously high quality video, tons of research and work put in.

Really great comparison! Thanks for dedicating so much time for this video!

Dobbies ranking is very surprising to me considering they cut so many of both his hand creature story lines throughout the 4th 5th and 6th books. I've been listening to the Jim Dale version of the audiobooks as of late when I go to bed because of my insomnia so it's been interesting to go back and watch some of your videos that compare the books and the movies

Really interesting that 19 characters are perfectly balanced or were only 1 ranking off. Also the top 7 were all perfectly matches and that's great

Thank you for making this :D And you have a really nice voice to listen to :D

I love how hard you work for each of your great videos

Great video! I turned this into a higher/lower game, where I paused after you introduced each character, and tried to guess if it was higher or lower than in the books, which made it even more fun!

I'm glad that you immediately explained Nigel. I've watched the movies once, usually when they came out in the theater. I've listened to the books 10+ times.. My immediate reaction was "who the hell is Nigel!?"

i absolutely love videos like this that just gives a ton of interesting facts, no matter how useless it might seem! thank you so much for making this

This actually sounds like it took years, incredible you did all this for such a cool video!

Morgan is the most crazy amazing guy I've seen on the Internet. The amount of effort he puts in his videos is unbelievable.

I think the reason greyback wasn't mentioned was due to censoring issues. Alot of his lines were very graphic and disturbing so, it was probably easier to cut his lines and give them to another character. I know they cut down bellatrix's torture of Hermione due to censoring issues so, I'm assuming that's why.

Fantastic video, your hard work really shines through!

This video took so much effort and I appreciate every second of it

ngl i was surprised on some of these. Especially Molly, cause i remember seeing her way more than Arthur, yet she ranked lower. great video btw, must've taken forever. I RESPECT YOU

I’d be curious to know how much of Hermione’s screen time came from scenes that were movie only and didn’t have Ron vs how much screen time came from movie only scenes for Rn that didn’t have Hermione. It sure feels like there were a lot of scenes added specifically to give Hermione more screen time. It’s also wild that we don’t get a Ron and Hermione scene that doesn’t include Harry or another character until DH1.

Love this! Thanks for doing it. It's cool to see the numbers

11:01 love that I was just thinking about going back and comparing the two. But you did it for me! 👌🏻

Well done and respect for the work you put into this. I do wonder if it would be the same outcome if comparing screentime not to mentions but words dedicated to a character. like if a character as a full page conversation but the name is only mentioned once it would change a lot representation wise. Not encouraging you to do this it would be too much work just wondering

The time and effort that was made for this video is marvelous!! I’m still shocked for a lot of the characters, I’m going to have to reread the books again ❤