2016 Presidential Candidates as Harry Potter Characters
The 6 Presidential Candidates and Their (Hilarious) Harry Potter Doppelgängers
There have been plenty of comparisons between US presidential hopefuls and Harry Potter characters lately — most notably, between GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and Lord Voldemort. Even author JK Rowling weighed in about the similarities between the two!
How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad. https://t.co/hFO0XmOpPH
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 8, 2015
And while many of these juxtapositions are justified (villainizing an entire people group and inciting violence from a group of radical followers is a pretty Voldemort move, after all), we decided to see which characters the candidates most resemble physically. Check out these parallels between the current presidential candidates and their respective Harry Potter doppelgängers . . . all personality trait similarities are purely coincidental.
Tom Riddle / Marco Rubio, Republican
Mad Eye Moody / Donald Trump, Republican
Dudley Dursley / Ted Cruz, Republican
Quirinus Quirrell / John Kasich, Republican
Amelia Bones / Hillary Clinton, Democrat
Horace Slughorn / Bernie Sanders, Democrat
BONUS: Madame Maxime / Carly Fiorina, Republican
