--- title: Harry Potter Doppelgänger Found in Old Photo on Reddit description: A Redditor who unearthed an old photo of his great aunt realized she bore a striking resemblance to none other than Harry Potter. canonical: https://time.com/4670620/harry-potter-lookalike-photo/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-14T18:45:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:07.629Z og:title: The Internet Is Losing It Over This Old Photo of Harry Potter's Doppelgänger og:description: And there wasn't even any Polyjuice Potion involved og:url: https://time.com/4670620/harry-potter-lookalike-photo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Losing It Over This Old Photo of Harry Potter's Doppelgänger twitter:description: And there wasn't even any Polyjuice Potion involved twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet Is Losing It Over This Vintage Photo of Harry Potter's Lookalike  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 14, 2017 6:45 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 14, 2017 6:45 PM UTC A [Redditor](http://time.com/4360357/reddit-finds-lost-pants/) who unearthed an old photo of his great aunt realized she bore a [striking resemblance](time.com leonardo dicaprio lookalike) to none other than [Harry Potter](http://time.com/4572382/fantastic-beasts-harry-potter-timeline/). User W00dzy87 took to [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5tzur2/turns%5Fout%5Fmy%5Fgreat%5Faunt%5Fwas%5Fharry%5Fpotter/) Tuesday to share a side-by-side comparison of a black and white picture of his great aunt and a lookalike shot of Daniel Radcliffe as the boy wizard, prompting a discussion on how similar the two glasses wearers appear. “Yer a wizard auntie,” one Redditor commented, spoofing Hagrid’s famous line from _The Sorcerer’s Stone_. The post has received more than 2,000 upvotes since it was shared Tuesday morning. And there wasn’t even any Polyjuice Potion involved See the photo below. Harry Potter Doppelgänger Found in Old Photo on Reddit ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4670620/harry-potter-lookalike-photo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4670620/harry-potter-lookalike-photo/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Losing It Over This Vintage Photo of Harry Potter's Lookalike","datePublished":"2017-02-14T18:45:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:07.629Z","description":"And there wasn't even any Polyjuice Potion involved","url":"https://time.com/4670620/harry-potter-lookalike-photo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral","reddit","Harry Potter"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4670620/harry-potter-lookalike-photo/","name":"The Internet Is Losing It Over This Vintage Photo of Harry Potter's Lookalike"}}]}] ```