JAMES ‘JACK’ SEMMES - Our protagonist, son of the new MACUSA envoy to the Ministry of Magic. Tanned, brown-haired, and hazel-eyed; often wrong but never in doubt. ( talking like )

  HENRY RAVENHURST - Jack's best friend. An impoverished nobleman's son with a brilliant mind hidden behind a cavalier exterior. Medium height, sandy-haired, with dark eyes that miss nothing. (as Prince Hal)

  THEODORIC ‘TEDDY’ MARSHWIGGLE - Boisterous and lanky fenland boy from Lincolnshire with unruly brown hair, big hands, and a bigger mouth. Quick to anger but quicker to laugh. ( but scruffier)

  OLIVER BRACKENBY - Steady, broad-shouldered, black-haired Cumbrian. Usually a voice of reason. ( herding sheep)

  EUSTACE GRYMES - Half-blood East-Ender whose family was destroyed by Grindelwald. Lean and intense, with deep-set eyes and sharp features. (, without the guitar skills)

  LAVINIA LLOYD - A warm-hearted Welsh country girl and expert broomrider. Athletic, freckled, with wavy auburn hair, blue eyes, and an easy smile. ( if she flew a broom instead of sailed)

  MINA MULHOLLAND - Irish prefect with brown curly hair, bright green eyes, and a maternal streak, daughter of a wealthy Dubliner wizarding barrister. ( scolding first years for putting their whole hand in the sugar dish)

  ARABELLA PEMBERTON - A working-class Bristolian, enthusiastic about everything, especially annoying Teddy. Short and bubbly, with brown hair and dark eyes. ( with less singing)

  PALAMEDES "PAL" HITCHENS - Skinny first-year with wild black hair and an obsession with Wizarding America. Jack's most devoted fan. ( but even worse behaved)

  MENELAUS "MEL" GRISTWOOD - Bespectacled and round-faced first-year who serves as the group's researcher and analyst. ( with glasses)

  WIGBALD "WIGGY" STOAT - Ginger, freckled, and always up to something. Has a penchant for asking for forgiveness instead of permission. ( in detention)

  ALGERNON FAIRBURNE - Seventh-year prefect and Quidditch captain. Tall, scarred, and charismatic. (but aggressively English)

  MINERVA MCGONAGALL - Precocious first-year already showing remarkable talent in Transfiguration and every other subject. ( if she’d already skipped three grades)

  CASSANDRA HIGHTOWER - Sixth-year prefect and top of the class. Tall and slender, with white-blonde hair and piercing violet eyes. ( as a blonde Lady Hamilton)

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  CAESO (Kai-so) MONTFORT - Sixth-year from a wealthy noble family. Very tall and handsome, with unfashionably long hair. ( in his element)

  BIANCA LUDD - Fifth-year prefect. Red-haired, short, and sharp-chinned, with a permanent scowl of disapproval. ( with narrow glasses and a narrower mind)

  MARTIN MOSSFLOWER - A good-natured sixth-year who treats nearly everyone with equal kindness. Stocky, round-faced, with tousled brown hair. (, cheerful and slightly bumbling)

  BRISEIS (Bri-SAY-iss) PEVENSEY - A petite, mousy sixth-year who wears round glasses. (, shy and bookish)

  CYPRIAN VENGE - Sixth-year from an ancient noble family. Thin, short, blond, bespectacled, and observes far more than he speaks. (, who else?)

  MORNA KINVIG – Sixth-year from the Isle of Man. Petite, dark-haired, green-eyed, and difficult to ignore. ( if she had been vaccinated by a phonograph needle)

  TIBERIUS ROWLE - Seventh-year prefect and self-appointed leader of Slytherin House. Large and bombastic. (, younger with curly hair)

  HEADMASTER AUGUSTUS HOLLOWBROOK - Reclusive veteran of the Great Wizarding War more focused on his own affairs than his students. (, bearded and exhausted)

  Heads of House:

  PROFESSOR HELENA WINTERBORN - Deputy Headmistress, Head of Ravenclaw, and Transfiguration professor. Strict disciplinarian who values propriety above people. ( with a wand and a death glare)

  PROFESSOR MALCOLM MACLEOD - Head of Gryffindor, former Auror, and Defense Against Dark Arts teacher. Burly Scotsman with red beard and scars. Lost his right hand fighting Grindelwald, now wears an enchanted silver gauntlet. ( after a shot of firewhisky)

  PROFESSOR ARCTURUS VALE - Head of Slytherin and Potions Master. Demanding but fair, with a shock of white hair. ( with a sarcastic streak)

  PROFESSOR IRIS BLACKTHORN - Head of Hufflepuff and Herbology. Rail-thin and pleasant until you skip the readings. (, sweet until you request for an extension to an assignment)

  Other Faculty:

  PROFESSOR EDWIN WHITBY - Muggle Studies instructor and former Auror. Wears sunglasses at all times and walks with a pronounced limp from his war service. ( with a casual disregard for his health)

  PROFESSOR AURORA STARLING - Astronomy, a witch in her forties who maintains both her looks and her exacting standards for celestial observation. ( with a telescope)

  PROFESSOR EUGRAPHEIA (You-GRAFF-ee-uh) BABBLING - Ancient Runes, a stout woman who dresses as if Victoria is still on the throne. ( built like a Sherman tank)

  PROFESSOR ANGUS MCGREGOR - Care of Magical Creatures, a bandy-legged wizard with a vendetta against rabbits. ( in a great kilt)

  LETTIE QUILLWORTH - Young, attractive librarian cheerfully oblivious to the older boys' infatuations. ( shelving books)

  Tyrone Power (Jack Semmes)

  The Black Swan (1942) – Fun and actually fairly historically accurate pirate movie (although not as good as Captain Blood - see below). Features the first "" moment that I've seen on screen.

  The Mark of Zorro (1940) – The best Zorro movie. Bar none. And a tremendous adventure flick in its own right. .

  Leslie Howard (Henry Ravenhurst)

  Gone with the Wind (1939) – He plays Ashley Wilkes, very important side character. Clark Gable is the main male lead.

  The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) – Great movie, arguably he plays the first ever masked hero on film. Watch if you want to see why he was one of the biggest of the 1930s.

  Errol Flynn (Teddy Marshwiggle)

  The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) – Best adventure film ever. . Has the legendary Olivia de Haviland, Claude Rains, and Basil Rathbone in it.

  Captain Blood (1935) – My favorite pirate movie. Try to find the colorized version if you can. de Haviland stars opposite again and is phenomenal, as is Rathbone.

  Joel McCrea (Oliver Brackenby)

  Foreign Correspondent (1940) – Awesome Hitchcock spy thriller. No spoilers.

  John Garfield (Eustace Grymes)

  They Made Me a Criminal (1939) – Great crime film with Claude Rains as the detective.

  Body and Soul (1947) – Dude he got called a commie and blacklisted for this movie.

  Katharine Hepburn (Lavinia Lloyd)

  Bringing Up Baby (1938) – Her first big break, . She and Cary Grant have to babysit a leopard.

  The Philadelphia Story (1940) – One of my favorite films. She has with Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. If you like the story they remade it into a 1950s musical called High Society with the inimitable Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong.

  Greer Garson (Mina Mulholland)

  Mrs. Miniver (1942) – SUPER touching romance film set during WWII. She won an Oscar for it.

  Judy Garland (Arabella Pemberton)

  Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) – Great musical movie that introduced "The Trolley Song", "The Boy Next Door" and "Have Yourself a ", all of which became Irving Berlin standards.

  The Wizard of Oz (1939) – Eternal classic. Fun fact, Gale Sondergaard (aka Prof Winterborn) was originally cast for the Wicked Witch, but refused the role after she saw after she saw the makeup she'd have to put on because she didn't want to scare children.

  Peter Lorre (Cyprian Venge)

  The Maltese Falcon (1941) – The best noir detective film of all time. Watch it. Humphrey Bogart's the lead.

  Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) – Hilarious dark comedy, he plays a German '.' Cary Grant is the lead.

  Bette Davis (Morna Kinvig)

  Now, Voyager (1942) – Tragic movie where she plays trying to deal with her domineering mother, pretty sure she got an Oscar for it.

  Sydney Greenstreet (Tiberius Rowle)

  The Maltese Falcon (1941) – Please, watch it. Greenstreet and Lorre were paired so frequently together afterwards that it became a .

  Casablanca (1942) – Another great Bogart movie. People who are paid to watch movies consider it the greatest movie of all time.

  If you want to see Greenstreet in a role (kind of the way I envision Rowle), try Christmas in Connecticut (1945), sweet holiday war movie.

  Vivien Leigh (Cassandra Hightower)

  Gone with the Wind (1939) – One of the greatest movies of all time, and she has one of the by any actress in any movie ever in it. I'm not being superlative.

  Laurence Olivier (Caeso Montfort)

  Wuthering Heights (1939) – I hated the book in high school when I had to read it, and even I liked this movie.

  On a dark note, Olivier married Vivian Leigh in 1941 and was highly abusive towards her, destroying her acting career.

  Bonita Granville (Bianca Ludd)

  Nancy Drew: Detective (1938) – Did you know she was the first ?

  Lou Costello (Martin Mossflower)

  for me to pick out my favorite movies... but in no particular order:

  Buck Privates, Hold that Ghost!, A&C Join the Foreign Legion, A&C Meet Frankenstein, and Who Done It?

  Ok, I take it back, my favorite is Buck Privates (1941). It's got the Andrew Sisters in it too!

  Margaret Sullavan (Briseis Pevensey)

  The Shop Around the Corner (1940) – One of my all-time favorite romantic comedies. She is incredibly cute .

  William Powell (Whitby)

  The Thin Man (1934) – One of my favorite movies. Powell and the brilliant Myrna Loy (See: Prof. Starling) play a husband-and-wife crime solving team. Powell has and fast banter that few other actors of the time had. It's too, so it's pretty risqué.

  Lionel Barrymore (Hollowbrook)

  You Can’t Take It with You (1938) – Great supporting role with Jimmy Stewart. He plays an eccentric grandpa.

  Gale Sondergaard (Winterborn)

  Anthony Adverse (1936) – Epic historical film. Sondergaard was such in it that she won the first ever Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

  Victor McLaglen (Macleod)

  Gunga Din (1939) – set in India and based on Kipling's poem. Starring Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. too!

  She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) – It's a John Wayne Western, what more could you ask for?

  You can get a feel for his stage presence from him fist-fighting John Wayne .

  Claude Rains (Vale)

  The Invisible Man (1933) – Great pre-Code thriller movie.

  Casablanca (1942) – Please watch Casablanca if you haven't. Rains plays a surprisingly sympathetic Vichy police chief.

  He also plays a fantastic Prince John in Errol Flynn's Robin Hood.