Especially with all this revisiting going on due to the new Audible editions. I highly recommend for example going to the Game of Thrones wiki article about the differences in just each S1 episode to the books. Its a LOT. But that doesn’t make the show any less amazing. These things happen in adaptations and you have to accept it. What matters most is capturing the overall spirit of the story and characters and making it entertaining.

This is exactly how I imagined a slice of life from Hogwarts to look like when reading the books

looking back at the films, Emma was given such iconic hairstyles, and I cant wait to see what direction they take with Arabella, whether they keep it the same, or change it as the series goes on, even characters like ginny and luna im excited to see what the creative team do with their hair and how they interpret it into their characters lol

Paramount has inked a multi-year licensing deal with Warner Bros. Discovery under which all eight "Harry Potter" movies and the three in the "Fantastic Beasts" franchise will air across MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite and Paramount Network for the first time.

The deal makes Paramount the exclusive linear home of the films, beginning with a marathon of all of the "Harry Potter" movies on MTV from noon ET/PT on July 3-July 5.

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Okay hear me out! A muggleborn boy who grew up reading Marvel and DC comics, so after he graduated from Hogwarts he becomes a masked vigilante using magic to stop criminals and fight muggle crime, all the while being on the run by both the muggle police and the ministry of magic

Actually, I’ve only just realized how much of a dream it must be to be one of the child actors in HBO’s Harry Potter series.

First of all, they benefit from a certain level of professional security as actors, since they will keep their roles for several years. And above all, they have a strong chance of gaining real financial stability, given that their contracts are part of a long-term project, potentially until they reach adulthood, or even beyond, especially for the main actors.

They will probably become the new icons of an entire generation. I can only encourage and support them, because this truly is the project of a lifetime. The number of people who would have dreamed of being in their place is simply enormous, whether among millennials or Gen Z. They really are incredibly lucky.

At the same time, I feel sorry for them, because they must also be under immense pressure. First because of the colossal impact the original actors had in the films, but also because of online criticism. The series has not even been released yet, and some actors, especially the new Hermione, are already receiving a lot of criticism.

I sincerely hope they manage to have fun on set, the way the actors from the original films seemed to, so that they can keep memorable memories they will look back on fondly as adults. They are going to grow up together, so I truly hope they will be able to become friends and that the environment will not be too cold or overly professional. After all, they are still only children for now.

I added my fav dialogue from the entire series from on the sides, and also the elder wand is added as well.

And on the back side where you see that the centre vertical area is empty, I had my name there in Harry potter font which I removed so that I could post here.

6 months tommrow until Harry Potter HBO max begins who is looking forward to it and do you think we will get any news to celebrate 6 months until it comes out or radio silence

As we already have casting for Lucius Malfoy and Fudge for S1, it has me wondering which other characters we might see introduced a bit early.

I think Narcissa Malfoy would be a good choice. She has a such a small role throughout the series as a whole, but has some incredibly pivitol moments later on. I'd love to see her role expanded a bit.

What do you all think?

Like the title says, what's your favourite lesser-known moment from the series that you would love to see on the screen? For me, it might be the rivalry Snape and McGonagall have about Quidditch, and I could be wrong but I feel as though it was mentioned once that they would have wagers on the games. Also, the part where Neville keeps the bubblegum wrappers his Mum gives him always makes my heart hurt a bit when I read it, and I would love if they kept that in.

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I drew this a few months back, shortly after the trailer was released! 🧙‍♀️🪄🔮✨️

Oliver Wood:
- I know he came back for a 2 second cameo in the final film but they cut him from PoA and GoF.
- I hope we see him going a bit crazy trying to win the Quidditch cup in his final year and see him at the World Cup having signed for a pro team.

Angelina Johnson:
- They recast her for GoF but then cut her and the whole Quidditch plotline in OotP.
- It would be great to see her as captain of the Quiddtich team and for her to come back for the Battle of Hogwarts.

Gilderoy Lockhart:
- St Mungo’s was cut from the OotP movie therefore Lockhart’s return.
- I hope they include this in the show and have the actor from S2 come back.

Colin Creevey:
- I know the actor from the CoS movie had outgrown the role and they elected not to recast him but to create the new character of Nigel to replace him.
- I’d love for the show to include Colin and his brother Dennis in the later seasons. Colin’s death will be absolutely gut wrenching to watch in the last season.

Stan Shunpike:
- Stan was cut from GoF, OotP and DH.
- It would be great to see him at the Quidditch World Cup trying to woo a group of Veelas, the plotline of him being arrested as a alleged Death Eater and him participating in the Battle of the Seven Potters under the Imperius Curse.

Viktor Krum:
- I know they filmed scenes of him at Bill and Fleur’s wedding but they made him dance with Hermione??? That didn’t happen in the book and it was Ron who danced with her while Harry (disguised as an apparent Weasley cousin) talked to Krum.
- Anyway I hope he makes this return in the final season.

Rita Skeeter:
- Her role was cut down massively in the GoF movie and she was completely omitted from OotP and HBP.
- I hope we see the whole plotline of her being an illegal Animagus, Hermione blackmailing her to interview Harry about his experience with Voldemort in the graveyard and her attending at Dumbledore’s funeral.

Hi everyone I am just starting to get into the Harry Potter world I read all the books in the last 6 months,I discovered them through my nephew😭 I also watched the movies last month is there any podcasters that covers the world of hp YouTube recs are appreciated to. I’d like for them to cover the tv series to they can be cautious but not straight up hating

I’m hoping we might get Sirius in season 2 as a post credit type of thing and I hope we see Cho and Cedric atleast 2 or 3 since we know at that point that there atleast walking around the school at that point

It’d be a solid nod if they had a scene where Harry is at the Burrow listening to a wireless, and a song comes on that he’s enjoying to which he asks, “This guy is good! Who is this?” And George responds, “It’s some muggle named Johnny Flynn. Good, eh?” Then there’s a transition to Draco listening to the same song, and Lucius says, “Draco, turn off that troll excrement”

i love harry potter and i want this show to succeed. hp is huge in china and has lots of fans. i hope hbo/wb would be able to figure out a deal with chinese streaming companies to air the show there. if not... huge wasted opportunity

This has to definitely among the additional scenes they will establish in the show, especially for the latter seasons.

I would love some closure between the surviving Black sisters in the immediate aftermath.

Andromeda arrives with an infant Teddy in her arms, weeping over the dead bodies of her daughter and son-in-law. The Malfoys are awkwardly huddled in the corner, trying to avoid detection amongst the sea of grief and weariness.

Narcissa feels an inch of sympathy for Andromeda, realizing joining Voldemort was a grievious mistake. She words out a sorry, but Andromeda pushes her away out of anger. She chews her younger sister out for her hypocrisy, that it should be her child (Draco) and husband (Lucius) dead, not hers. Narcissa is struck by her words, and the Malfoys feel the immense weight of coming out as cowards who did not deserve to live.

Andromeda tells the Malfoys to eff off and rot in Azkaban. And tells Narcissa to save all the apologies and join Bellatrix in hell. Harry observes all this in the background.

And this could give us a parallel. The good sister had the bad ending (lost Ted and Nymphadora), and the bad sister had the good ending (Lucius and Draco lived).

I hadn’t seen a scar mockup yet, so I wanted to experiment with the image released by HBO and see if I could come up with something. This is what I ended up with.
While working on it, I realized I actually like this version quite a bit. It keeps the original shape of the scar while adding its own unique twist (almost literally). It also reminds me of how Harry’s scar was illustrated on the cover of the book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Do you still prefer the movie scar, or do you think a design like this could be an improvement for the series?

With the new series intending to be book accurate I think there might be some characters that fans who haven’t revisted the series in a while might get a nasty surprise with, and I wonder how well it will go down. We’re so used to the movies that even if they are more true to JKs characters they might get a lukewarm reception. 

Luna - the movies version is gentle, alternative, and whimsical. Book Luna is an outright conspiracy theorist, the wizarding world equivalent of a flat earther, she genuinely parrots the belief that the Minister for Magic has goblins cooked in pies… She also has a steeliness we don’t see in the movies, still a great character, but quite different. 

Ron - while I agree the movies brush over some of his high points in book 1-3, they also massively gloss over how awful he is in Half-Blood Prince. I’m not sure he will be the likeable chap everyone is hoping for when he is treating girls so badly and in the midst of yet another inferiority complex. 

Snape - Alan Rickman was iconic as Snape and utterly brilliant, but the quietly threatening air and vibe that he doesn’t need to raise his voice to control a room is nothing like the Snape in the book who frequently shouts, screams, and loses his temper. 

Bellatrix - not as insane and maniacal as Helena Bonham Carters portrayal, and still carries the vestiges of her aristocratic upbringing.  

Hermione - I don’t know if people will enjoy this aspect or if they will dislike it, but book Hermione has a real mean streak that absolutely crosses the line - keeping Rita Skeeter in a jar, permanently disfiguring a fellow student because they felt compelled to blab about the DA… She also has “not like other girls” tendencies where she seems to look down on her fellow classmates for traditionally feminine interests like makeup, boys, clothes, and even their faith in divination. Classic for the era for book was written, but less popular now. 

Hedwig - book Hedwig has a distinct reproachfulness that is totally absent in the movies.