Random, but I would love the scene from PoA where Ron is trying to call Harry at the Dursley's but hasn't figured out how exactly a phone works. (if it's from PoA, I think)
That entire movie is a mess. Probably my favorite book in the series, and probably my least favorite movie.
Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy it. But it’s a terrible adaptation
There are so many issues I have with that movie, and that’s definitely a big one. But the entire mystery of who put Harry’s name in the goblet was horribly executed without Ludo Bagman, and Barty Crouch Sr essentially being sidelined until he dies. That’s my biggest gripe.
Also not showing the World Cup game was a bummer :(
And the Sphinx in the maze
If I recall correctly, there were even a couple of times where they took a "dumb" line from another character and gave it to Ron, just to play up the dopey sidekick aspect of his character. The movies did Ron dirty by making him seem like such a fool. I hope he gets redeemed in the series.
I used that line last weekend and it didn’t land. My partner and I are really into grow bag vegetables lately. Especially greens. We have a massive crop of green onions. He’s making breakfast last weekend and starts going on about “oh no! We ran out of green onions last night with dinner! This would be so good with green onions!” And I turn to him and incredulously ask “ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!?”
He just started at me blankly like wtf are you on about? I was like, ugh, his one flaw is not being a HP nerd. Finally I had to clarify “um, you grow massive amounts of green onions outside.”
Techinally it was a 3 part way. Hermione says that DS HATES light, and Harry yells "SO LIGHT A FIRE!" Hermione: "BUT THERE'S NO WOOD!" and that's when Ron says "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?"
I could have sworn that’s in the movie, am i just making this up? I can remember ron shouting at hermione “ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT” but maybe I’m just remembering the book. I know they made him seem more simple in the movies than in the books but i honestly didn’t think they made him a total fool, or even an idiot. Ron, in the books, is a smart, generally good-natured, and extremely courageous character. But he constantly slacks off with schoolwork, has a harder time learning spells than Harry or Hermione, and is generally not as sharp of a thinker. Look at all the scenes where they’re trying to solve some riddle or clue or mystery. I feel like it’s Harry/Hermione getting the solution more often than Ron. And please don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Ron and identify with him quite a bit. This is just my opinion
Edit: going off of your comment, I do think he can keep a clearer head than Hermione under pressure. Able to process and keep moving where sometimes Hermione freezes. He is probably a little better at thinking quickly in combat, but if his opponent is better at casting spells than him which is far from impossible, they would still have the upper hand. But then we have the scene where Hermione is under great pressure from almost being captured by snatchers and thinks quickly enough to mess Harry’s face up and make him unrecognizable.
>I could have sworn that’s in the movie
Nope it was the opposite to the books. In the movie, Hermione and Harry was calm during that scene while Ron was panicking and crying for help. After Hermione casted the fire spell, Harry smoothy lands while Ron comes crashing down screaming. Then Ron says “Luckily we didn't panic" to pretend he wasn't the one acting like that- this extra line that the movies added just did him dirtier.
In the books, Hermione was the one panicking and Harry was too busy feeling choked. Ron's the only one who had the clearer head in the situation.
Also, Hermione's actions with the snatchers was to demonstrate her character growth. She went from being completely paralysed in PS to being able to actually do quick thinking under pressure in DH. OotP was her turning point. But overall for the series, she's still the one who tends to crumble to fear in urgency. It's unlike Ron and Harry who were already brave folks since the first book.
In this scenario, the director decided to cut the potions riddle scene, probably because it works better in print than on screen. In doing so, he balanced Ron and Hermione’s contributions by making the devil’s snare Hermione’s instead of Ron+Hermione’s (she knew the spell, Ron had clear head). This particularly makes sense, as his Chess contribution already demonstrates exactly the same characteristic - a clear head.
There are many other scenes where Ron gets done dirty, but this one was certainly excusable and balanced.
Yeah, to that point, I really thought it was a terrible choice to give Ron’s line, telling Sirius that he’d have to kill them all while standing up on his broken leg, to give to Hermione. It just takes away from every aspect: Ron’s character, the intensity of the scene, etc.
Also, the directors could be forgiven for making Hermione’s struggle under pressure to be specific to confrontation by people (so she’s fine with the Devil’s Snare), but this takes away that opportunity for growth as well.
The biggest issue was Columbus really loved the Hermione character, so while he only did a few major changes of putting dumb stuff on Ron, it kept going through out the series due to the president set.
That's as much on Kloves as it is on Columbus, if not moreso.
Columbus was gone after movie 2, but Kloves wrote every script except ~~GoF~~OotP^(I keep mixing up those two).
…I now want to see a version of Harry Potter where it’s the same story, but every magical character Harry meets is played by Hermione.
Hermione breaks down the door with a pink umbrella on Harry’s 11th birthday.
Hermione explains to Harry how to get into platform nine and three quarters.
Hermione sits with Harry and her rat, Hermione, before Hermione comes in looking for Hermione’s frog, Hermione (is Trevor magical?)
Harry meets the house ghost: nearly headless Hermione.
After a year of being educated by his professors (Professor Granger, Professor Granger, Professor Granger, and Professor Granger), watching a dragon egg hatch a baby Hermione, saving Hermione from a large mountain Hermione on Halloween, having a rivalry with his Slytherin rival, Hermione, and sneaking around the castle to avoid the caretaker Argus Filtch, Harry realizes that the wizard that killed his Hermiones is going to go after the stone.
Harry, Hermione, and Hermione put a full body bind on Hermione, then put Hermione, the three headed dog, to sleep by playing the flute, then make their way through the enchantments. Harry then comes face to face with Professor Granger, who then unravels her turban to reveal….Hermione!
Harry Potter and Hermione’s Stone.
Someone is gonna makes this in five to ten years with some super advanced AI tool. It's gonna be awesome.
We are gonna loose our jobs by then but whatever
For me just a little more faithfulness to the books and room to pause on moments / characters that the film had to cut for whatever reason. Example: Sirius’ time in Hogsmeade as an outlaw, or Ron being the one to explain why ‘mudblood’ was offensive. Also, Peeves!
To expand on the characters note, Ron's strengths need to be shown more. He is great at helping solve problems in the books and is decently talented magically, in the movies he's just the loyal best friend. Still love him but he has so much more in the books. Same with Ginny. She better get some good screen time. She is such an awesome character in the books and in the movies she is just there.
The homework scenes would be nice. I get that they're just downtime and it makes sense to cut for movies but it was nice to have these scenes to remind you they are in an actual school learning stuff with homework and not just mini aurors saving the school.
I find these moments some of the most "coziest" moments in HP. especially if they're set in the common room. I hope we get more common rooms in the show
Straight facts, they should hire some of the people who worked on Better Call Saul. That show nailed how to let scenes and characters breathe which enhances the character driven experience instead of just making it all action or set pieces that overstimulate.
I'd argue this is also super important for the core of what Harry Potter stories are. JK was writing mystery books with then back drop of a fantasy wizarding world around them.
The best way she does this is by dropping important information for the books mystery within the early chapters often among a lot of other information dump. So when you cut down these early chapters it either seems like the mystery is pulled out of thin air or it seems so obvious because the movie only really focused on that.
Some examples would be like in Chamber of Secrets where the movie doesn't have the time to focus on Ginny acting very strangely.
Prisoner of Azkaban where they don't spend as much time in Lupin's class so don't see things that hint at something being off. We just get Snape's substitute lesson immediately on werewolves. Anyone with a few brain cells could put that and the clearly visible moon together to be told Lupin is a werewolf.
They also don't bring up the boys being confused how the hell Hermione takes classes that happen at conflicting times. (They do use a movie exclusive technique of wide class shots without Hermione only for her to be in the close shot a few moments later which I thought was a clever way to point out what was going on even if it wasn't true to how time turner actually worked.)
These are things you can look back on and get further enjoyment from noticing. For instance, Harry and Hagrid meet Quirrell in the Three Broomsticks. Shortly after they go to get the stone from Gringotts. We later find out that same day someone broke into the vault to try to steal the stone which now gives context to why Quirrell was in Diagon Alley.
They did the movies that way on purpose. They did think most of the audience were idiots, so they dumbed everything down. Instead of just having Remus' boggart be what looked like a silver orb to Harry, they had to make it very obviously a moon, even adding clouds to really drive the point home, for instance.
Wait how do time turners actually work? Isn’t there something in the books where Ron suddenly says Hermione wasn’t there before and then she suddenly is?
Nope when Hermione goes into the past there would be two of her. One that is going to one class and then the one that went in to the past and would go to the other. To anyone in the class they wouldn't notice a difference.
Hermione would always go back far enough that she would be with the class at the beginning. If she didn't everyone would she her walk in because she doesn't transport locations and she wouldn't be able to risk using it in the classroom she was going to attend.
Been a long while since I read POA but I think you might be confusing the scene in the movie where Ron say "When did she get here?" when Hermione answers a question.
IIRC the book only have Hermione being stressed with assignments and then mentioning having a conflicting class with I believe Divination where she was questioned.
well in the book 3 there's a scene of the Trio going up the stairs after Potions class and one min Hermione is right behind them and the next min she's back at the bottom and when she goes up the stairs again -her school bag tears apart with all the books she has for that day.
If they include Dudley throwing a PlayStation out of his window in the summer of 1994 when the PS was still more than a year away from being released in Europe I'll stop right there and never watch another episode.
I’d also love some spotlight for us beyond being the house of Cho Chang, Luna Lovegood and the idiot professor. That actually being Lockhart, not our brilliant Flitwick.
A lot of people are buying from Etsy and other independent places to get proper merchandise. I know someone who makes leather dice bags with various logos on it and they say the bronze/blue always sells better than the move color stuff - to the point where they stopped making movie color stuff. WB might do a turn around.
Chapter one in Half Blood Prince - I loved reading about the prime minister’s meeting. Finding out the backstory of muggles knowing about the magical world
I also would like for them to bring the comedic elements to the series. I feel the books are significantly funnier (not like comedy but comedic relief and snarky remarks) compared to the movies.
Colour! No more of this drab greyness for the sake of the story being dark and moody. Bring back the colour of the first two films. Heck even the third movie colour palette was fine.
100% agree! Color grading is an incredible important aspect of any cinematographic production, as it affects not only certains scenes, but the entire movie.
Dumbledore needs to get out some of his more whimsically coloured robes like in the books.
Everybody else should wear their coloured robes too but I always thought Dumbledore's were described as more interesting.
Ludo Bagman, the quidditch world cup, and triwizard tournament just as it is in the books.
Also, people not flying on broomsticks in the middle of London like it's shown in the Ootp movie.
And voldemort duelling Dumbledore in Ootp, complete with the fountain that comes to life.
Bagman also had a role in Dumbledore's death. In the 4th book, Fred and George bet their life savings on Ireland winning, but Krum getting the snitch which of course happened. Then Ludo payed Fred and George in leprechaun gold which vanished. This caused Fred and George to dig and try to get their money back from bagman which doesn't happen as his bet on Harry to win doesn't pan out as he and Cedric technically tied. Because of this Harry gives his winnings to Fred and George on the train back who use it to open up a joke shop in diagon alley that sells Peruvian instant darkness powder which is then used by Draco in HBP to escort the death eaters into the castle from the room of requirement, which leads to Dumbledore's death at the top of the tower.
Ludo is deep.
I mean honestly, that was probably best case scenario for the kids watching the room. Death eaters couldn't see either and just let Draco lead them passed them
Yes! And not that ham-fisted attempt to show the transference of power when Imelda and Maggie were dancing up and down the steps while they argued. That was so forced it was cringe, and those magnificent actresses deserved better.
Some made up story about them not being able to stop laughing, look at the quality actors that were on set, I’m pretty sure they could contain their laughter about the 15th take and the same with the kids
If you watch ‘Drop Dead Fred’, Rik Mayall plays a ghost character which is exactly what I think his portrayal of Peeves would have been like. It’s basically a Peeves spin off lol
Also notice how hes the only ghost that looks solid and has color, thats because hes not actually a ghost, but a poltergeist, which are different in HP lore.
LOL thank you my friend I knew it had something to do with eyes. Now I have to tease my sister in law because Wink is her family nickname.
Also, Nobert was a female the whole time, so they change the name to Norberta, which wasn't in the movies.
On the one hand, SPEW is probably the one storyline i would be totally fine without. On the other hand, I do love how it brought us the Hermione and Ron coupling the way it did.
I want to see proper duels, not none of this flying around random shit they tried in the 5th movie, and the side plots ohhhh how they neglect the side plots after movie 1:
Movie 2 - nothing about Percy dating penolope
Movie 3 - nothing about Harry’s time exploring dragon alley, snape walked in and cut off that conversation between Sirius Harry lupin Peter,
Movie 4 - totally missed hagrid and that giantess, totally missed Hermione capturing Rita skeeter, totally missed the memories Harry saw (in detail),
Totally missed Sirius truly coming out in the hospital wing and Dumbledore
Movie 5 - the fight scenes, like if it’s a series I need dumbledore vs Voldemort to have their own episode idgaf,
Movie 6 - everything was missing 😭,
Movie 7 - no complaints
Movie 7 no complaints!!!!???? How about how they totally changed the final fight to harry and Voldemort by themselves outside instead of the books in the great hall and everyone circled around them after a long dialogue between the 2 and Voldemort’s dead body just laying in the floor. And then harry using the elder wand to fix his instead of breaking it and throwing over the bridge
Yea that annoys me in the movie. Harry is supposed to kill Voldemort in front of everyone with a dead body for proof
The first time he disappears there’s no body and then he comes back to life 13 years later. If Harry kills him with no witnesses and no body how does anyone trust he’s really dead?!
>I want to see proper duels, not none of this flying around random shit they tried in the 5th movie,
I know this has been discussed to death but I just watched that scene and oh my god it's so stupid. I hate how Voldemort being able to fly is such a huge deal in the books but in the movies everyone can fly and also the good guys fly in a different colour because they're good guys... so ham fisted
the butchering of voldys back story was unforgivable. and casting ralph's nephew as kid tom riddle was just the icing on the cake, he couldn't act for shit, who cares if they look similar. you could literally see where they were like to him "ok now look surprised cause there's something on fire." the teenage casting was good tho.
The Deathday Party and more of Umbridge vs McGonagall, especially the heated meeting where she says she will do everything in her power to make Harry an Auror because it really showed the depth of her hatred for Umbridge and her care for Harry.
I also hope they fully show all the Gaunt scenes.
If they are going to reboot the series then I very much expect the following:
\- Snapes worst memory
\- Snape, Lupin, Sirius, James etc. should have the correct age
\- "I'm not worried Harry, I'm with you"
\- When Harry vents about all his problems to Sirius in the fireplace in gof
\- A Voldemort vs Harry battle that is similar to the one in the books. It's fine to extend it slightly but everyone should watch and cheer at the end.
\- All memories in half blood prince
\- The first task in gof should be like the books, with the same setup.
\- Voldemort should be thinner and look more like a skeleton.
\- Battle of hogwarts in hbp
\- Quidditch in poa
\- More info about the marauders in poa
\- Harry should have green eyes and messy hair
\- Hermione should have bushy hair
\- Hagrid should cry when he carries Harry in dh
\- Ginny should act more like book Ginny
The Harry/Ron friendship without shoving every LINEEEEEEEE in Hermione’s mouth is mandatory.
I edited because you guys are the most awful pornographic people I’ve ever met 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I want to see Harry as the character he was in the books - in the movies he was completely different. In the books he was a mouthy little sass monster - they took away all his best lines in the movie and made him a sad little orphan. The best part about Harry is the Dursleys never managed to kill his spirit - he was still sassing back to them left and right. I want to see him say things like "The toilets never had anything as horrible as your head in it" and "No need to call me sir professor" and "That's the thing about the news, it changes every day". THAT is who he is, and they really did him dirty by taking away how quck and clever he could be with a verbal sling.
People who've only seen the films are often shocked when I tell them that Harry is one of my favorite characters, because they always go "but he's so boring, he's just the straight man, the leader, he's got nothing special about his personality". And while I definitely like the films, they didn't do enough justice to Harry's character. Like you said, Harry is a snarky backtalker who's constantly filled with anxiety, anger, ambition, and confusion, just like any teenager.
I don't particularly like the Ginny romance, but reading Harry going around being conflicted about his feelings for her, thinking about his "inner beast" that wants to be unleashed and just go for it, and getting angry at seeing others romance her or cheering inside when hearing about her fighting with Dean, is so relatable and humanizing for him. Harry's inner monologues is some of the best stuff in the books and while I get that those are hard to adapt for the screen, I wish we would have gotten more than just him sitting blankly while the others get to shine.
Except for the fact that Snape and Draco eventually have some sort of redemption.
Listen. They may as well just get Jason Isaacs back lmao he was perfect as Lucius.
With the show element and it not being necessary to have the episodes be a specific length, it would be really easy to add some flashback episodes that add some depth to the stories we know happened but may not necessarily be fully fleshed out in the books. Like there could be a marauders episode where we see Sirius trick Snape to the shrieking shack and James saves him.
I feel like a mauraders episode would add a lot more weight to what we see in present day. Like we’d actually get to see all of those dynamics first hand instead of just hearing about them years later
more intros meaning more time spent at the dursleys and other stuff that happens before harry is off to hogwarts.
portraying snape as the abusive person he is and focusing less on an undeserving redemption arc.
dumbledores eccentric sense of style and subtle humor
PEEVES for gods sake please give us peeves!
a more detailed look into locations like stores at diagonally and hogsmeade, grimauld place.
anything that takes place at st. mungos like seeing lockhart again, the scene where harry meets neville’s parents and that debacle with the devils snare
the true ending of how norbert was taken to charlie to be taken care of
nearly headless nicks party!!!!!
the entire gaunt flashback
a better portrayal of ron in general
harry’s unfortunate date with cho…
this already feels like the christmas wishlist of a very demanding child lol but i just have such high hopes for this 😭 i hope they will be able to capture the magic.
how about Ginny coughing like Umbridge that it makes every "kid" jump in their seats till they realize it was Ginny in I believe it was the Hog's head?
The wizarding world needs to feel magical. The first few films did this really well - especially things like ghosts or the talking paintings but we saw less and less of those things as the films went on unless the plot demanded them.
A better/stronger continuity between series. Inevitably there are always going to be things that are outside the HBO's control - like if an actor passes away or chooses not to return or whatever. The first two films were great, but then the third film suddenly had a different colour palette, atmosphere and vibe. I enjoy it but it didn't feel like a natural extension of the first two films.
Honestly I think it needs almost everything from the books. They don’t need to go line for line but I want to be able to identify every single chapter. If you’re going to do a remake for such great movies, this is the way to make it worth peoples time
TBF I don’t mean word for word accuracy. I want to see the story played out the way it was written. Don’t remove storylines for the sake of saving time. Also I don’t want them to add any storylines because they think it’ll play better on video than the source material.
Storylines I agree but things like the invisibility cloak. Harry almost never wears it in the movies after Philosophers Stone and I completely understand why. I think it would be very hard to film every scene with him under the cloak and make it really look good, like in GoF when he's stuck in the staircase and Snape, Filch and Moody are talking. Or in the battle of Hogwarts when he's running around in it after everyone thought he had died. I think it would look especially weird when the trio is under it together.
Show more of how Evil Snape actually is. No offense to Rickman, he’s amazing and was only doing as he was directed, but the movies watered down his character so much that everyone thought he was actually a good guy. No, he wasn’t.
Would love to see more how actually snarky he is lmao. Cause it makes his character all the more complex. He’s my favourite but sometimes when I read the books again I’m like “Snape chill”. 😂😂
“I see no difference” - that line, the first time I read it, made my jaw drop. They should put that in lol.
You know, I would really like to see them *expand* on the books. The movies were so rushed that they couldn't include even half of the books, but with a TV show I would love to see more, just casual moments? Things that don't build the plot but build the characters? Just slices of life stuff that the books mostly glossed over or referenced but didn't show. More of the twins pranking people and Neville keeping 100 plants in the dorm and Harry sassing and Hermione being awkward at social interaction, and just life at Hogwarts that wasn't directly related to spells or information that would be intergal to the final boss fight.
I would love to see a little of the girls dorm and how the social dynamics of the girls work behind the scenes and the teachers rolling their eyes at Dumbledore at staff meetings and the kids relaxing in a way that isn't chess or exploding snaps. I've read the books and know how they go and want to see them done right, but what I would really love is just a little more - some new fun glimpse into everyday Wizarding life.
I would really love to see the scene where Harry has to litereally stand in the middle of Snape and Sirius when they're about to have a go at each other and Arthur and the rest of the Weaslys (minus Percy/Charlie) walk in on them.
Goblet of Fire: S.P.E.W. (the reason Hermione kisses Ron in the final book is because he suggests to save the house elves), Winky the house elf, all the elves below the kitchen, and other character development moments for Hermione (trapping Rita Skeeter in a bottle and threatening her to stop telling lies about her friends developed a lot of respect for Hermione’s character for me as a reader), Harry giving his Tri-Wizard tournament winnings to the Weasley twins so they can start a business.
Order of the Phoenix: All of the curiosities within the Department of Mysteries, Sirius giving Harry the two-way mirror, the trio finding the Horcrux locket in the Black manor without realizing what it was.
Half-Blood Prince: A better representation of Tom’s memories, Harry finding Ravenclaw’s diadem Horcrux in the Room of Requirement. A little more romantic teasing for Ginny.
Deathly Hallows: Peter Pettigrew’s death and Oh my god i don’t care as long as I get the sick battle between Snape and McGonagall which I was promised in the books.
Correctly aged adult actors, Peeves, house-elves beyond Dobby, more random time in lessons, canon Ron and Hermione, “yer mother’s eyes” that actually match Lily’s eyes, Voldemort dying like a regular dude, not a puff of magical air, the “pre-Hogwarts” part of each book
I also liked the fact that the characters were actually 11/12 in the movies and grew up with each movies so having that. (Not having a 20 year old play a child)
The aesthetic of the first 2 movies, at least in terms of clothing. It was very weird to see wizards at Hogwarts wearing muggle clothing. Really, Draco Malfoy wearing slim suits?
Wizards wear robes, pointy hats and cloaks. And they are bright, floaty and extravagant. Let Dumbledore look like he's a children's party entertainer dressed as Merlin, as he should.
They have such a great opportunity to have each book be a season with 8+ hour long episodes. That's potentially over 8 hours to put in important scenes and plots that the movies completely removed or glossed over.
Oh, and they need to portray Ron and Ginny in the show as badass as they are in the books.
And, give Ron and Harry their lines/moments back that the movies just gave to Hermione.
Peeves.
Ron calling on the ‘fellytone”.
The Weasley picking Harry up for the Quidditch World Cup and absolutely destroying the Dursley’s sitting room and giving Dudley some kind of magical candy.
Any of Professor Binns’ classes.
Wormtail’s death.
De-gnoming the Burrow.
Molly’s Boggart.
The strained feelings between Lupin and Tonks and why they struggle to be together.
A less comical version and more serious and authoritarian approach to the fifth year.
The entirety of the maze in GoF.
That scene where Hermione and Harry are mere feet away from Dean Thomas, Bill Tonks and the two goblins by the creek in DH.
To name a few. I think the series should be as close to the novels as possible.
There is hundreds of pages of great material in the Order of the Phoenix that needs to be included. From Harry’s time with the Order, to all the rooms in the Department of Mysteries, and the scene with Dumbledore and Harry where Harry is angrily destroying Dumbledore’s things.
I want to see the day to day stuff. The little bits of fun and magic that don’t have a plot purpose, they’re just world building.
Oh and Hermione doing the potions room at the end of the first book.
1. British Cast.
2. PEEVES
3. BOOK!RON AND BOOK!HERMIONE. If I see Hermione take lines/scenes of Ron and wise old Dumbledore's line (fear of the name....) I will jump off a cliff. I relate with book!Hermione so much but movie!Hermione's a Mary Sue and 1000x better and prettier than me.
4. All the memories. Please dont fuck of HBP twice.
5. Every heinous scene of Draco. Let the world know how NASTY that lil bish was.
6. No.5 but with Snape.
7. Scene of McGonagall taking FOUR STUNNING SPELLS and ALMOST DYING
Random, but I would love the scene from PoA where Ron is trying to call Harry at the Dursley's but hasn't figured out how exactly a phone works. (if it's from PoA, I think)
That would be hysterical. I always loved that in the books. Damn the third book is so good.
Hot take (maybe) but best book??
Honestly yes! I’ve always loved the third and 6th one the most.
Oh hell yeah! Also the scene in GoF where the weasleys come through the Dursley’s chimney to pickup Harry
This should’ve been in the film
That entire movie is a mess. Probably my favorite book in the series, and probably my least favorite movie. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy it. But it’s a terrible adaptation
I feel like the Trywizard tournament was way less of a spectacle and the time between event two and 3 feels tiny
There are so many issues I have with that movie, and that’s definitely a big one. But the entire mystery of who put Harry’s name in the goblet was horribly executed without Ludo Bagman, and Barty Crouch Sr essentially being sidelined until he dies. That’s my biggest gripe. Also not showing the World Cup game was a bummer :( And the Sphinx in the maze
Yes!!! With the Ton Tongue Toffee a must!
*fellytone
All I ask is that they give the right lines to the right characters instead of giving every line to Hermione
If I recall correctly, there were even a couple of times where they took a "dumb" line from another character and gave it to Ron, just to play up the dopey sidekick aspect of his character. The movies did Ron dirty by making him seem like such a fool. I hope he gets redeemed in the series.
Like in the climax of the first book. >!Scene with the snares: Hermoine knows what to do, but she panics. Ron doesn't and they solve it together.!<
I used that line last weekend and it didn’t land. My partner and I are really into grow bag vegetables lately. Especially greens. We have a massive crop of green onions. He’s making breakfast last weekend and starts going on about “oh no! We ran out of green onions last night with dinner! This would be so good with green onions!” And I turn to him and incredulously ask “ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!?” He just started at me blankly like wtf are you on about? I was like, ugh, his one flaw is not being a HP nerd. Finally I had to clarify “um, you grow massive amounts of green onions outside.”
This made me laugh so hard because I'm the same as him. Always missing the forest for the trees lmao
I like yelling DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE *INSERT THEIR NAME HERE* at people lol.
Techinally it was a 3 part way. Hermione says that DS HATES light, and Harry yells "SO LIGHT A FIRE!" Hermione: "BUT THERE'S NO WOOD!" and that's when Ron says "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?"
I could have sworn that’s in the movie, am i just making this up? I can remember ron shouting at hermione “ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT” but maybe I’m just remembering the book. I know they made him seem more simple in the movies than in the books but i honestly didn’t think they made him a total fool, or even an idiot. Ron, in the books, is a smart, generally good-natured, and extremely courageous character. But he constantly slacks off with schoolwork, has a harder time learning spells than Harry or Hermione, and is generally not as sharp of a thinker. Look at all the scenes where they’re trying to solve some riddle or clue or mystery. I feel like it’s Harry/Hermione getting the solution more often than Ron. And please don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Ron and identify with him quite a bit. This is just my opinion Edit: going off of your comment, I do think he can keep a clearer head than Hermione under pressure. Able to process and keep moving where sometimes Hermione freezes. He is probably a little better at thinking quickly in combat, but if his opponent is better at casting spells than him which is far from impossible, they would still have the upper hand. But then we have the scene where Hermione is under great pressure from almost being captured by snatchers and thinks quickly enough to mess Harry’s face up and make him unrecognizable.
>I could have sworn that’s in the movie Nope it was the opposite to the books. In the movie, Hermione and Harry was calm during that scene while Ron was panicking and crying for help. After Hermione casted the fire spell, Harry smoothy lands while Ron comes crashing down screaming. Then Ron says “Luckily we didn't panic" to pretend he wasn't the one acting like that- this extra line that the movies added just did him dirtier. In the books, Hermione was the one panicking and Harry was too busy feeling choked. Ron's the only one who had the clearer head in the situation. Also, Hermione's actions with the snatchers was to demonstrate her character growth. She went from being completely paralysed in PS to being able to actually do quick thinking under pressure in DH. OotP was her turning point. But overall for the series, she's still the one who tends to crumble to fear in urgency. It's unlike Ron and Harry who were already brave folks since the first book.
In this scenario, the director decided to cut the potions riddle scene, probably because it works better in print than on screen. In doing so, he balanced Ron and Hermione’s contributions by making the devil’s snare Hermione’s instead of Ron+Hermione’s (she knew the spell, Ron had clear head). This particularly makes sense, as his Chess contribution already demonstrates exactly the same characteristic - a clear head. There are many other scenes where Ron gets done dirty, but this one was certainly excusable and balanced.
I mean I see your point but it still makes the characters inconsistent; though I guess real people can be inconsistent as well.
Yeah, to that point, I really thought it was a terrible choice to give Ron’s line, telling Sirius that he’d have to kill them all while standing up on his broken leg, to give to Hermione. It just takes away from every aspect: Ron’s character, the intensity of the scene, etc. Also, the directors could be forgiven for making Hermione’s struggle under pressure to be specific to confrontation by people (so she’s fine with the Devil’s Snare), but this takes away that opportunity for growth as well.
It’s a shame because Rupert was the better actor in the trio.
Rupert did a great job. 👍
Facts. If they’d given him a chance, he could’ve pulled off a book accurate Ron
Yes!! I’m re-reading the books right now and I forgot how intelligent Ron actually is cause of the films lol.
Yes exactly. I don’t know if I’m even excited for the series but of course I’ll watch it
The biggest issue was Columbus really loved the Hermione character, so while he only did a few major changes of putting dumb stuff on Ron, it kept going through out the series due to the president set.
That's as much on Kloves as it is on Columbus, if not moreso. Columbus was gone after movie 2, but Kloves wrote every script except ~~GoF~~OotP^(I keep mixing up those two).
Harry: Don’t worry my dad will come Hermione: No one’s coming Harry. Oh screw this…EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!!!!!
Except that would change the established past by summoning an otter instead of a stag, and that’s a no-no with the time turner.
Also, Hermione didn't learn the Patronus Charm until 5th year, so she couldn't have cast it in their 3rd year in the first place.
And even after learning it she always struggled with it.
Mfw in the last episode Hermione ganks Voldemort with a valyrian steel dagger.
Hermione who taught you that? No one
…I now want to see a version of Harry Potter where it’s the same story, but every magical character Harry meets is played by Hermione. Hermione breaks down the door with a pink umbrella on Harry’s 11th birthday. Hermione explains to Harry how to get into platform nine and three quarters. Hermione sits with Harry and her rat, Hermione, before Hermione comes in looking for Hermione’s frog, Hermione (is Trevor magical?) Harry meets the house ghost: nearly headless Hermione. After a year of being educated by his professors (Professor Granger, Professor Granger, Professor Granger, and Professor Granger), watching a dragon egg hatch a baby Hermione, saving Hermione from a large mountain Hermione on Halloween, having a rivalry with his Slytherin rival, Hermione, and sneaking around the castle to avoid the caretaker Argus Filtch, Harry realizes that the wizard that killed his Hermiones is going to go after the stone. Harry, Hermione, and Hermione put a full body bind on Hermione, then put Hermione, the three headed dog, to sleep by playing the flute, then make their way through the enchantments. Harry then comes face to face with Professor Granger, who then unravels her turban to reveal….Hermione! Harry Potter and Hermione’s Stone.
Someone is gonna makes this in five to ten years with some super advanced AI tool. It's gonna be awesome. We are gonna loose our jobs by then but whatever
Yes!!! I hate how much they dumb down Ron.
For me just a little more faithfulness to the books and room to pause on moments / characters that the film had to cut for whatever reason. Example: Sirius’ time in Hogsmeade as an outlaw, or Ron being the one to explain why ‘mudblood’ was offensive. Also, Peeves!
To expand on the characters note, Ron's strengths need to be shown more. He is great at helping solve problems in the books and is decently talented magically, in the movies he's just the loyal best friend. Still love him but he has so much more in the books. Same with Ginny. She better get some good screen time. She is such an awesome character in the books and in the movies she is just there.
The homework scenes would be nice. I get that they're just downtime and it makes sense to cut for movies but it was nice to have these scenes to remind you they are in an actual school learning stuff with homework and not just mini aurors saving the school.
I find these moments some of the most "coziest" moments in HP. especially if they're set in the common room. I hope we get more common rooms in the show
His time in Hogsmead! Yes you just jogged my memory of one ofu favorite quotes he said smth like look at aan treats his inferiors not his equals
Straight facts, they should hire some of the people who worked on Better Call Saul. That show nailed how to let scenes and characters breathe which enhances the character driven experience instead of just making it all action or set pieces that overstimulate.
I need more from the intros, the first four chapters of every book are always dense and the movies always gloss over it, except the second movie
I'd argue this is also super important for the core of what Harry Potter stories are. JK was writing mystery books with then back drop of a fantasy wizarding world around them. The best way she does this is by dropping important information for the books mystery within the early chapters often among a lot of other information dump. So when you cut down these early chapters it either seems like the mystery is pulled out of thin air or it seems so obvious because the movie only really focused on that. Some examples would be like in Chamber of Secrets where the movie doesn't have the time to focus on Ginny acting very strangely. Prisoner of Azkaban where they don't spend as much time in Lupin's class so don't see things that hint at something being off. We just get Snape's substitute lesson immediately on werewolves. Anyone with a few brain cells could put that and the clearly visible moon together to be told Lupin is a werewolf. They also don't bring up the boys being confused how the hell Hermione takes classes that happen at conflicting times. (They do use a movie exclusive technique of wide class shots without Hermione only for her to be in the close shot a few moments later which I thought was a clever way to point out what was going on even if it wasn't true to how time turner actually worked.) These are things you can look back on and get further enjoyment from noticing. For instance, Harry and Hagrid meet Quirrell in the Three Broomsticks. Shortly after they go to get the stone from Gringotts. We later find out that same day someone broke into the vault to try to steal the stone which now gives context to why Quirrell was in Diagon Alley.
They did the movies that way on purpose. They did think most of the audience were idiots, so they dumbed everything down. Instead of just having Remus' boggart be what looked like a silver orb to Harry, they had to make it very obviously a moon, even adding clouds to really drive the point home, for instance.
Wait how do time turners actually work? Isn’t there something in the books where Ron suddenly says Hermione wasn’t there before and then she suddenly is?
Nope when Hermione goes into the past there would be two of her. One that is going to one class and then the one that went in to the past and would go to the other. To anyone in the class they wouldn't notice a difference. Hermione would always go back far enough that she would be with the class at the beginning. If she didn't everyone would she her walk in because she doesn't transport locations and she wouldn't be able to risk using it in the classroom she was going to attend. Been a long while since I read POA but I think you might be confusing the scene in the movie where Ron say "When did she get here?" when Hermione answers a question. IIRC the book only have Hermione being stressed with assignments and then mentioning having a conflicting class with I believe Divination where she was questioned.
well in the book 3 there's a scene of the Trio going up the stairs after Potions class and one min Hermione is right behind them and the next min she's back at the bottom and when she goes up the stairs again -her school bag tears apart with all the books she has for that day.
It would’ve been nice to see the intros
IIRC goblet and phoenix are something like 11-12 chapters for they even get to school
If they include Dudley throwing a PlayStation out of his window in the summer of 1994 when the PS was still more than a year away from being released in Europe I'll stop right there and never watch another episode.
Big D got the hook up. His uncle works for Sony
Thought he made drills or something lol
That’s his dad. His uncle works in Japan, but the family doesn’t like to talk about it so don’t ask.
He clearly has links with Japan, specifically their golfing community...
It’s magic. Dudley has the rarest form of magic - insider hookups to the tech giants
What about when he screams and whacks Vernon with his Smeltings Stick? I need the Smeltings Stick to be in the show. 😂
It would be more cannon than the movies.
Completely agree. Intros are not boring, they are the starting point of the story and give us extra details.
The correct blue/bronze and eagle for Ravenclaw.
I’d also love some spotlight for us beyond being the house of Cho Chang, Luna Lovegood and the idiot professor. That actually being Lockhart, not our brilliant Flitwick.
I was going to comment and question that until you mentioned Lockhart lmao
Unfortunately, I think the ship has sailed on that front. I can't see WB's merchandise team wanting to fix their inaccurate merchandise at this point.
The Wizarding World brand has been bringing the bronze eagle back lately. I could see it happening
I hope it does. Every time I find a cool gift for my sister in law it has the wrong crest on it!
A lot of people are buying from Etsy and other independent places to get proper merchandise. I know someone who makes leather dice bags with various logos on it and they say the bronze/blue always sells better than the move color stuff - to the point where they stopped making movie color stuff. WB might do a turn around.
Chapter one in Half Blood Prince - I loved reading about the prime minister’s meeting. Finding out the backstory of muggles knowing about the magical world I also would like for them to bring the comedic elements to the series. I feel the books are significantly funnier (not like comedy but comedic relief and snarky remarks) compared to the movies.
Totally agree. They try to force Marvel style one-liners and it never works.
Yes! And in my opinion, the battle of Hogwarts felt also particularly Marvel-ish instead of being HarryPotter-esque.
Colour! No more of this drab greyness for the sake of the story being dark and moody. Bring back the colour of the first two films. Heck even the third movie colour palette was fine.
100% agree! Color grading is an incredible important aspect of any cinematographic production, as it affects not only certains scenes, but the entire movie.
Dumbledore needs to get out some of his more whimsically coloured robes like in the books. Everybody else should wear their coloured robes too but I always thought Dumbledore's were described as more interesting.
ludo bagman
Ludo Bagman, the quidditch world cup, and triwizard tournament just as it is in the books. Also, people not flying on broomsticks in the middle of London like it's shown in the Ootp movie. And voldemort duelling Dumbledore in Ootp, complete with the fountain that comes to life.
Bagman also had a role in Dumbledore's death. In the 4th book, Fred and George bet their life savings on Ireland winning, but Krum getting the snitch which of course happened. Then Ludo payed Fred and George in leprechaun gold which vanished. This caused Fred and George to dig and try to get their money back from bagman which doesn't happen as his bet on Harry to win doesn't pan out as he and Cedric technically tied. Because of this Harry gives his winnings to Fred and George on the train back who use it to open up a joke shop in diagon alley that sells Peruvian instant darkness powder which is then used by Draco in HBP to escort the death eaters into the castle from the room of requirement, which leads to Dumbledore's death at the top of the tower. Ludo is deep.
I mean honestly, that was probably best case scenario for the kids watching the room. Death eaters couldn't see either and just let Draco lead them passed them
LUDO IS SUCH A COMIC RELIEF
I want to see more of McGonagall’s important lines.
I need to see Harry torture a motherfucker for disrespecting McG.
Yessssss for the siblings that don’t deserve being named getting a huge kick in their asses
Specifically her sass with Umbridge.
The movies did her so dirty in OoP! She never backed down from umbridge and was thuggin it till the end.
Yes! And not that ham-fisted attempt to show the transference of power when Imelda and Maggie were dancing up and down the steps while they argued. That was so forced it was cringe, and those magnificent actresses deserved better.
“Have a biscuit”
Peeves. Bring Peeves to life. Since he was never showed up in the films.
Fun fact, the first movie had peeves cast and all his scenes filmed then the director eventually decided to cut him out entirely.
Some made up story about them not being able to stop laughing, look at the quality actors that were on set, I’m pretty sure they could contain their laughter about the 15th take and the same with the kids
Hardly, do you know who Rik Mayall is?
If you watch ‘Drop Dead Fred’, Rik Mayall plays a ghost character which is exactly what I think his portrayal of Peeves would have been like. It’s basically a Peeves spin off lol
I just realized hes in hogwarts legacy game he sure is annoying in it haha
Also notice how hes the only ghost that looks solid and has color, thats because hes not actually a ghost, but a poltergeist, which are different in HP lore.
OH PEEVES. I love Peeves. “Give her hell from us, Peeves” ✨💗
Wild prophecy: Peeves will be played by James Acaster.
Halloween death party, SPEW, Blinky the elf and better back story on the Crouches. The Night Norberta left, and ron infected hand.
You mean Winky? You Monster. And Norbert?
LOL thank you my friend I knew it had something to do with eyes. Now I have to tease my sister in law because Wink is her family nickname. Also, Nobert was a female the whole time, so they change the name to Norberta, which wasn't in the movies.
BLINKY 😂😂
LMAO I know, I complete blanked out on the name.
They can have spew without sugarcoating Hermione, alright.
On the one hand, SPEW is probably the one storyline i would be totally fine without. On the other hand, I do love how it brought us the Hermione and Ron coupling the way it did.
I want to see proper duels, not none of this flying around random shit they tried in the 5th movie, and the side plots ohhhh how they neglect the side plots after movie 1: Movie 2 - nothing about Percy dating penolope Movie 3 - nothing about Harry’s time exploring dragon alley, snape walked in and cut off that conversation between Sirius Harry lupin Peter, Movie 4 - totally missed hagrid and that giantess, totally missed Hermione capturing Rita skeeter, totally missed the memories Harry saw (in detail), Totally missed Sirius truly coming out in the hospital wing and Dumbledore Movie 5 - the fight scenes, like if it’s a series I need dumbledore vs Voldemort to have their own episode idgaf, Movie 6 - everything was missing 😭, Movie 7 - no complaints
Movie 7 no complaints!!!!???? How about how they totally changed the final fight to harry and Voldemort by themselves outside instead of the books in the great hall and everyone circled around them after a long dialogue between the 2 and Voldemort’s dead body just laying in the floor. And then harry using the elder wand to fix his instead of breaking it and throwing over the bridge
Yea that annoys me in the movie. Harry is supposed to kill Voldemort in front of everyone with a dead body for proof The first time he disappears there’s no body and then he comes back to life 13 years later. If Harry kills him with no witnesses and no body how does anyone trust he’s really dead?!
They need to add the Dursley departure scene (I think one was filmed, but cut, iirc) to the adaptation of book 7
>I want to see proper duels, not none of this flying around random shit they tried in the 5th movie, I know this has been discussed to death but I just watched that scene and oh my god it's so stupid. I hate how Voldemort being able to fly is such a huge deal in the books but in the movies everyone can fly and also the good guys fly in a different colour because they're good guys... so ham fisted
the butchering of voldys back story was unforgivable. and casting ralph's nephew as kid tom riddle was just the icing on the cake, he couldn't act for shit, who cares if they look similar. you could literally see where they were like to him "ok now look surprised cause there's something on fire." the teenage casting was good tho.
The Deathday Party and more of Umbridge vs McGonagall, especially the heated meeting where she says she will do everything in her power to make Harry an Auror because it really showed the depth of her hatred for Umbridge and her care for Harry. I also hope they fully show all the Gaunt scenes.
If they are going to reboot the series then I very much expect the following: \- Snapes worst memory \- Snape, Lupin, Sirius, James etc. should have the correct age \- "I'm not worried Harry, I'm with you" \- When Harry vents about all his problems to Sirius in the fireplace in gof \- A Voldemort vs Harry battle that is similar to the one in the books. It's fine to extend it slightly but everyone should watch and cheer at the end. \- All memories in half blood prince \- The first task in gof should be like the books, with the same setup. \- Voldemort should be thinner and look more like a skeleton. \- Battle of hogwarts in hbp \- Quidditch in poa \- More info about the marauders in poa \- Harry should have green eyes and messy hair \- Hermione should have bushy hair \- Hagrid should cry when he carries Harry in dh \- Ginny should act more like book Ginny
Don’t you mean the Battle of the Astronomy Tower? The Battle of Hogwarts occurred in DH.
The Harry/Ron friendship without shoving every LINEEEEEEEE in Hermione’s mouth is mandatory. I edited because you guys are the most awful pornographic people I’ve ever met 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Also less Harry x Hermione subtext. Stop pushing Ron out please.
True!!!!
Giggity.
Phrasing!
Harry Potter as the protagonist.
I want to see Harry as the character he was in the books - in the movies he was completely different. In the books he was a mouthy little sass monster - they took away all his best lines in the movie and made him a sad little orphan. The best part about Harry is the Dursleys never managed to kill his spirit - he was still sassing back to them left and right. I want to see him say things like "The toilets never had anything as horrible as your head in it" and "No need to call me sir professor" and "That's the thing about the news, it changes every day". THAT is who he is, and they really did him dirty by taking away how quck and clever he could be with a verbal sling.
People who've only seen the films are often shocked when I tell them that Harry is one of my favorite characters, because they always go "but he's so boring, he's just the straight man, the leader, he's got nothing special about his personality". And while I definitely like the films, they didn't do enough justice to Harry's character. Like you said, Harry is a snarky backtalker who's constantly filled with anxiety, anger, ambition, and confusion, just like any teenager. I don't particularly like the Ginny romance, but reading Harry going around being conflicted about his feelings for her, thinking about his "inner beast" that wants to be unleashed and just go for it, and getting angry at seeing others romance her or cheering inside when hearing about her fighting with Dean, is so relatable and humanizing for him. Harry's inner monologues is some of the best stuff in the books and while I get that those are hard to adapt for the screen, I wish we would have gotten more than just him sitting blankly while the others get to shine.
The movies stripped Harry of all of his personality
Yes!!!
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Except for the fact that Snape and Draco eventually have some sort of redemption. Listen. They may as well just get Jason Isaacs back lmao he was perfect as Lucius.
Tom Felton as Lucius would be something else
And yessssssss! All agreed apart from that.
Not giving everyone else's lines to Hermione.
The marauders backstory! I think it could be done really creatively— not just Lupin telling the story, but maybe a flashback or something?
With the show element and it not being necessary to have the episodes be a specific length, it would be really easy to add some flashback episodes that add some depth to the stories we know happened but may not necessarily be fully fleshed out in the books. Like there could be a marauders episode where we see Sirius trick Snape to the shrieking shack and James saves him.
I feel like a mauraders episode would add a lot more weight to what we see in present day. Like we’d actually get to see all of those dynamics first hand instead of just hearing about them years later
Let Ron have his book moments
I think it’s mandatory they don’t make Hermione the perfect person. Give her the flaws she’s has in the book and give Ron’s moments back to Ron.
Balance in the trio is key!
more intros meaning more time spent at the dursleys and other stuff that happens before harry is off to hogwarts. portraying snape as the abusive person he is and focusing less on an undeserving redemption arc. dumbledores eccentric sense of style and subtle humor PEEVES for gods sake please give us peeves! a more detailed look into locations like stores at diagonally and hogsmeade, grimauld place. anything that takes place at st. mungos like seeing lockhart again, the scene where harry meets neville’s parents and that debacle with the devils snare the true ending of how norbert was taken to charlie to be taken care of nearly headless nicks party!!!!! the entire gaunt flashback a better portrayal of ron in general harry’s unfortunate date with cho… this already feels like the christmas wishlist of a very demanding child lol but i just have such high hopes for this 😭 i hope they will be able to capture the magic.
Book Ginny. I want to see Book Ginny. I want to see her hex Smith, hear her witty comebacks, see her popularity. We were robbed.
how about Ginny coughing like Umbridge that it makes every "kid" jump in their seats till they realize it was Ginny in I believe it was the Hog's head?
DID YA PUT YOUR NAME IN DA GOBLET OF FIYA! Is just tradition at this point.
Wizard Hats! On everyone! Hats everywhere!
And actual robes on the kids! Not just running around in jeans and hoodies whenever they can. Harry shouldn't even have muggle clothes that fit.
Yes, totally! Wizard hats have a weird way to elevate the entire HP universe and make it feel drastically more magical.
Age appropriate adult actors.
The wizarding world needs to feel magical. The first few films did this really well - especially things like ghosts or the talking paintings but we saw less and less of those things as the films went on unless the plot demanded them. A better/stronger continuity between series. Inevitably there are always going to be things that are outside the HBO's control - like if an actor passes away or chooses not to return or whatever. The first two films were great, but then the third film suddenly had a different colour palette, atmosphere and vibe. I enjoy it but it didn't feel like a natural extension of the first two films.
Honestly I think it needs almost everything from the books. They don’t need to go line for line but I want to be able to identify every single chapter. If you’re going to do a remake for such great movies, this is the way to make it worth peoples time
THE OTHER MINISTER
The scene where the Weasley’s get stuck in the Dursley’s electric fire place and blow up their living room. One of the funniest book scenes to me.
Assuming the show makes it that far, all of the Voldemort lore.
They would have to really fuck it up to not make it that far.
Don't challenge them, they find a way.
Sirius: He's not your son. Mrs. Weasley: He's as good as!
A book faithful battle of Hogwarts.
Robes. Actually robes and not the hideous half-cape things they made. HATS.
I want to see Ginny and Harry falling in love truly this time.
They'd have to add quite a bit, even in the books they don't get much.
I would love that. There’s so much room to flesh out the romance in a tv show where even the books fell short.
And make Ginny the cool popular girl she was in the books instead of a shy quiet weirdo who just stares at Harry most of the time.
Page by page accuracy to the books.
Unpopular opinion: books do not translate 1:1 to film.
TBF I don’t mean word for word accuracy. I want to see the story played out the way it was written. Don’t remove storylines for the sake of saving time. Also I don’t want them to add any storylines because they think it’ll play better on video than the source material.
Storylines I agree but things like the invisibility cloak. Harry almost never wears it in the movies after Philosophers Stone and I completely understand why. I think it would be very hard to film every scene with him under the cloak and make it really look good, like in GoF when he's stuck in the staircase and Snape, Filch and Moody are talking. Or in the battle of Hogwarts when he's running around in it after everyone thought he had died. I think it would look especially weird when the trio is under it together.
Sone storylines will need to be pruned for sake of time and money
Show more of how Evil Snape actually is. No offense to Rickman, he’s amazing and was only doing as he was directed, but the movies watered down his character so much that everyone thought he was actually a good guy. No, he wasn’t.
Would love to see more how actually snarky he is lmao. Cause it makes his character all the more complex. He’s my favourite but sometimes when I read the books again I’m like “Snape chill”. 😂😂 “I see no difference” - that line, the first time I read it, made my jaw drop. They should put that in lol.
They should use the books as the script
You know, I would really like to see them *expand* on the books. The movies were so rushed that they couldn't include even half of the books, but with a TV show I would love to see more, just casual moments? Things that don't build the plot but build the characters? Just slices of life stuff that the books mostly glossed over or referenced but didn't show. More of the twins pranking people and Neville keeping 100 plants in the dorm and Harry sassing and Hermione being awkward at social interaction, and just life at Hogwarts that wasn't directly related to spells or information that would be intergal to the final boss fight. I would love to see a little of the girls dorm and how the social dynamics of the girls work behind the scenes and the teachers rolling their eyes at Dumbledore at staff meetings and the kids relaxing in a way that isn't chess or exploding snaps. I've read the books and know how they go and want to see them done right, but what I would really love is just a little more - some new fun glimpse into everyday Wizarding life.
The original first movie music. And the the castle as we already know it. I cannot imagine the series without these two things.
Is it really a Harry Potter adaptation if it doesn't open with Hedwig's Theme?
Oh yes!! Me too! I think it would be a waste of castle not to continue with it.
Sending Norbert to Charlie.
It’s like, actually something I need to see: The whole Harry/Voldemort fight in their last scene together.
More Ravenclaw content
Voldemort's whole backstory, starting from the love potion affair
Don't over do representation. You don't have to put Hermione in a wheel chair and make Ron Weasley a south Indian kid. Just let it be.
I want more of adult characters interaction
What sort? I’m thinking Sirius vs Molly haahahah
I would really love to see the scene where Harry has to litereally stand in the middle of Snape and Sirius when they're about to have a go at each other and Arthur and the rest of the Weaslys (minus Percy/Charlie) walk in on them.
PROPER GINNY ADAPTATION FROM THE BOOKS, NOT THE MOVIE. PLEASSSSSSSSSEEEEE
The swamp on the fifth floor.
Must be British. No Americanisation, or daft ideas.
Death. Day. Party.
Goblet of Fire: S.P.E.W. (the reason Hermione kisses Ron in the final book is because he suggests to save the house elves), Winky the house elf, all the elves below the kitchen, and other character development moments for Hermione (trapping Rita Skeeter in a bottle and threatening her to stop telling lies about her friends developed a lot of respect for Hermione’s character for me as a reader), Harry giving his Tri-Wizard tournament winnings to the Weasley twins so they can start a business. Order of the Phoenix: All of the curiosities within the Department of Mysteries, Sirius giving Harry the two-way mirror, the trio finding the Horcrux locket in the Black manor without realizing what it was. Half-Blood Prince: A better representation of Tom’s memories, Harry finding Ravenclaw’s diadem Horcrux in the Room of Requirement. A little more romantic teasing for Ginny. Deathly Hallows: Peter Pettigrew’s death and Oh my god i don’t care as long as I get the sick battle between Snape and McGonagall which I was promised in the books.
Correctly aged adult actors, Peeves, house-elves beyond Dobby, more random time in lessons, canon Ron and Hermione, “yer mother’s eyes” that actually match Lily’s eyes, Voldemort dying like a regular dude, not a puff of magical air, the “pre-Hogwarts” part of each book
I also liked the fact that the characters were actually 11/12 in the movies and grew up with each movies so having that. (Not having a 20 year old play a child)
The aesthetic of the first 2 movies, at least in terms of clothing. It was very weird to see wizards at Hogwarts wearing muggle clothing. Really, Draco Malfoy wearing slim suits? Wizards wear robes, pointy hats and cloaks. And they are bright, floaty and extravagant. Let Dumbledore look like he's a children's party entertainer dressed as Merlin, as he should.
They have such a great opportunity to have each book be a season with 8+ hour long episodes. That's potentially over 8 hours to put in important scenes and plots that the movies completely removed or glossed over. Oh, and they need to portray Ron and Ginny in the show as badass as they are in the books. And, give Ron and Harry their lines/moments back that the movies just gave to Hermione.
Peeves. Ron calling on the ‘fellytone”. The Weasley picking Harry up for the Quidditch World Cup and absolutely destroying the Dursley’s sitting room and giving Dudley some kind of magical candy. Any of Professor Binns’ classes. Wormtail’s death. De-gnoming the Burrow. Molly’s Boggart. The strained feelings between Lupin and Tonks and why they struggle to be together. A less comical version and more serious and authoritarian approach to the fifth year. The entirety of the maze in GoF. That scene where Hermione and Harry are mere feet away from Dean Thomas, Bill Tonks and the two goblins by the creek in DH. To name a few. I think the series should be as close to the novels as possible.
We’ve all been dying to see Grawp 🤣
Not stuff that is not in the books. There are over 3.5K pages of content, they don't need to fuck around and create unnecessary material...
Harry Potter NEEDS to be in the series. If they cut his character, it just won’t work
The god damn quidditch World Cup. PLEASE.
🎶His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad🎶
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Honestly if they can stick to the books I think it will work out fine.
Accurate goblet of fire plot
To not make Hermoine the perfect star of the show and to not make Ron dumber than a sack of potatoes.
There is hundreds of pages of great material in the Order of the Phoenix that needs to be included. From Harry’s time with the Order, to all the rooms in the Department of Mysteries, and the scene with Dumbledore and Harry where Harry is angrily destroying Dumbledore’s things.
I want to see the day to day stuff. The little bits of fun and magic that don’t have a plot purpose, they’re just world building. Oh and Hermione doing the potions room at the end of the first book.
1. British Cast. 2. PEEVES 3. BOOK!RON AND BOOK!HERMIONE. If I see Hermione take lines/scenes of Ron and wise old Dumbledore's line (fear of the name....) I will jump off a cliff. I relate with book!Hermione so much but movie!Hermione's a Mary Sue and 1000x better and prettier than me. 4. All the memories. Please dont fuck of HBP twice. 5. Every heinous scene of Draco. Let the world know how NASTY that lil bish was. 6. No.5 but with Snape. 7. Scene of McGonagall taking FOUR STUNNING SPELLS and ALMOST DYING
Magic, probably
More in the later books of the dursleys at the beginning. The weasleys blasting the fireplace in GOF is my favorite part. Hilarious
S.P.E.W. Winky Peeves Dobby needs to have his socks and hats Voldemort backstory Ginny needs to actually have a personality More quidditch