Harry Potter Stars Pay Tribute to Robbie Coltrane

Every country of the Potterverse mourned the loss of Robbie Coltrane last October.

Before helium near his sizable stamp connected the cultural improvement that was the Harry Potter franchise, the Scottish histrion had enjoyed a prolific vocation successful movie and television, and was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama. But it was his portrayal of lovable half-giant Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper who looks retired for Harry and his mates, that secured his cinematic immortality—in some the hearts of the movies' fans and the young actors who fundamentally grew up connected set.

Tom Felton, who was 12 erstwhile helium was formed arsenic Potter nemesis Draco Malfoy, has his ain stash of memories from those formative days when helium and his chap newcomers chopped their acting teeth alongside a who's who of British cinema. And successful grant of what would person been Coltrane's 73rd day March 30, the writer of Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard penned a tribute to his precocious co-star exclusively for E! News:

Somehow, Robbie managed to beryllium an big and a kid astatine the aforesaid time, maintaining a ft successful some camps.

His cognition of the satellite was astounding. He was well-versed successful immoderate taxable you mightiness attraction to mention, from engineering to geography, from past to travel—and that meant helium had thing to lend to immoderate grown-up speech that mightiness beryllium happening connected set. You could archer that the older actors valued and respected his experience.

We kids, though, didn't person overmuch clip for that stuff. We conscionable wanted to be, well, kids—mischievous, impish and high-spirited. But truthful did Robbie. He had much mischief successful him than a communal country afloat of Slytherins. He could fool astir with the champion of us. He mightiness person had the caput of an adult, but helium genuinely had the bosom of a child.

That's not to accidental helium wasn't a existent professional. Robbie knew however important it was to cognize your lines, to beryllium connected your mark, to play to camera. We learned our commercialized from watching him. He acceptable a large illustration to america each connected however to nail the basal skills of being connected set, but ne'er successful a boring oregon patronizing way. Although helium routinely had to woody with a brainsick magnitude of hairsbreadth and make-up and suits and stilts, helium inactive someway managed to make an situation that allowed america each to beryllium playful.

And Robbie was endlessly playful. He was perpetually cheeky. Most of each helium was ever kind. He ne'er took himself excessively seriously—and these characteristics laic astatine the bosom of everything, I think, due to the fact that if Robbie took himself excessively seriously, if helium forgot what it meant to beryllium kind, determination would person been nary Hagrid.

Without Hagrid, there's nary Hogwarts. And cipher could, would oregon ever volition play that gentle elephantine fractional arsenic good arsenic my dearly missed person Robbie Coltrane.