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Doctor Who and Harry Potter : Coincidental (and Intentional) Links
Coincidental Links
First Doctor Companion Ian Chesterton was played by William Russell. Alfred Enoch, his son from his second marriage (since 1953 to Etheline Lewis Enoch a Brazilian physicist) plays in the Harry Potter films.
Patrick Troughton, played the Second Doctor . His daughter was Joanna Troughton, author and illustrator of children's books. Harry Melling, her son, plays Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films.
Jim Broadbent played "The Shy Doctor" in the 1999 Comic Relief parody Doctor Who sketch, Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death. Broadbent will play Professor Horace Slughorn in the film version of Half-Blood Prince.
David Tennant plays the Tenth Doctor. He also was in 2005's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Barty Crouch Jr.
Ninth and Tenth Doctors both had episodes guest starring Zoe Wanamaker as the voice of Cassandra. ("The End of the World" and "New Earth.") Wanamaker appeared on screen in Harry Potter and the Soceror's Stone as Madam Hooch, the flight instructor and Quiddich Referee.
Tenth Doctor Episode entitled "Rise of the Cybermen" guest starred Roger Lloyd Pack as John Lumic. Lloyd Pack and David Tennant previously worked together in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as father and son — Barty Crouch Sr and Barty Crouch Jr respectively. Tennant and Lloyd Pack had one scene together onscreen in the movie, and one in the television episode. The television episode was however with Lumic after Lumic had been transformed into the Cyber Leader, so it may not have been Lloyd Pack in the costume.
Tenth Doctor episode entitled "Love and Monsters" guest starred Shirley Henderson as Ursula Blake. She was also in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Moaning Myrtle. Tennant and Henderson had no onscreen time together in Goblet of Fire. The Doctor only sees Ursula as a face in the Abzorbaloff's abdomen and a Sludge on a paving stone. Again the actual physical presence of the two actors on set concurrently is not necessary for this to occur.
Intentional links
In Tenth Doctor Episode "The Shakespeare Code" not only does the Doctor directly refer to reading Book 7 on an original broadcast date prior to the books actual release in the real world (saying "Wait till you read book 7, I cried",) but also Martha supplies Shakespeare with the word Expelliarmus as the final word ending the spell that sends the Carrionites back into exile. The Doctor's response to this is to happily shout "Expelliarmus! Good ol' JK!"
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