Pooty-Poot of our friendly neighborhood Russian Federation is apparently the center of a potentially litigation-rich controversy. The crime? Dobby, a charming little creature in the second and most recent Harry Potter film, is the spitting image of Mr. Putin:

But since when is a striking countenance between figurehead and fiction surprising? Take French President Minister Jacques Chirac, for example:

Okay, okay - lucky angle. But the implication is amusing. "Go away, boy, ya bahthah me."

And equally newsworthy German Prime Minister Gerhard Schroeder, not to be forgotten for such a popularly legendary face:

Dead on. Mos Eisley Cantina tunes, anyone?

Amazing. Coincidence? Perhaps. Irony? Loads. More to come? You bet.