10 Great Harry Potter Characters That We Never Got To See On Screen

10. Various Death Eaters

Pretty much all of Voldemort's followers not named Lucius Malfoy or Bellatrix Lestrange were underused on screen, with the majority of Death Eaters simply played by extras in hoods.

Some were given occasional moments of prominence in the last few films - Peter Mullan as Yaxley for instance, whilst a few others (Richard Trimble as Augustus Rookwood, Tav McDougall as Travers and Peter Best as Macnair) were named in the credits as having appeared, just without being accompanied by the moments that defined their characters on the page (Rookwood's status as a ministry turncoat and his killing of Fred Weasley that enables Percy to get some redemption for turning his back on his family, for example).

Rowling wrote most of the Death Eaters as one dimensional followers with little motivation apart from being evil for the sake of it, which didn't give the film's screenwriters much to work with. Nevertheless, it would've been good to see an extended rogues gallery.

Avery's status as the bumbling idiot that always gets tortured for his failings would've been a great comedic cameo for somebody like Eddie Marsan, whilst Rodolphus Lestrange could've been featured to hammer home the point that his wife was practically married to Voldemort instead of him. He could've even been tragically shown to be powerless to do anything about it, in a deviation from the blank slate his character was in the books.