Harry Potter TV series [HBO Max]

I'm not sure anyne really cares to be honest.

The Cho point is actually wrong aswell as it forgets all about the Patil twins for some reason, granted they weren't huge but existed and most prominently each went to the Yule Ball in the 4th book with Harry and Ron but twitter outrage has deleted them to demonise Rowling.

The books never had him blow things up although Seamus was definitely brought in for a lot of comic relief. The Irish can be well known internationally for being comedians. As for the names, they helped to create the character in your head. Harry and Potter are also be considered very English first and sur names for example. Is it something that needs to be changed? Questionable

Having more black actors certainly makes sense from the POV of diversity. Not because we need more diversity in hollywood, but England would have been quite a bit more diverse in the time of Snape and Harry's fictional youths than is portrayed in the films. I'm just not sure a storyline about a black kid being bullied who then turns to fight with a right wing lunatic who uses slurs such as "mudblood" will work.

On the other hand, is it that much of a stretch to believe that teenage James was a racist as well as an arsehole?

There was obvious DEI with the Weasleys but at least the gingers weren't Oirish :)

I'm a JK fanboy for being literate and remembering the books/characters?

I wouldn't piss on Rowling if she was on fire but that doesn't retcon the books.

You can keep claiming the books never had the Patils and had Seamus always blowing things up if you want. Its wrong but go ahead.

It was the same with Rings of Power when people of questionable literacy started making incorrect claims about Galadriel "from the books" when clearly they never read them.

Did you not see I edited my post, (and stated I did so) apologised in a direct reply to you for getting the book/movie issue wrong?

Firstly that is far from the worst thing the movies did.

Secondly the 6th book did make a reference to not being able to tell her hands apart from Ron's because of all the cuddling they were doing, which would suggest she had the same skin colour as Ron.

Now, for the craic, could you have made the Weasley's a black ginger family?

Lads it's all just make believe. I Mean, a Ginger with TWO friends!

She was introduced in the first movie as a minor character but only ever described in the 6th book, which wasn't written at the time of the first movie. You could argue that the daftness fell on JK who should have changed that line in the 6th book based on what was portrayed in the first movie

Don't you know she had to go, a common theme in those books was that love interests died instead of an awkward breakup haha!

The lack of outrage regarding a non Irish actor playing Dumbledore or is very disappointing.

Bad enough they took opportunities from Limerick actors by recasting as a West Brit but a Yank is just totally wrong. Makes no sense.

She likely died imo but the weird way its been left over after everyone else that died was explicitly confirmed dead just leaving her maimed and twitching is so amusingly weird.

Just because 2 sets of people have similar issues doesn't make them the same people?

Wanting a particular tv series to be faithful to how it is described in the books does not make one racist but obviously racists will hop on that same bandwagon if it suits their white supremacist ideologies. Comparing a bookworm and a racist is a poor argument to try to make

I think everybody was wondering about batman when Affleck was announced. Especially me as I incorrectly had thought it was Ben Miller for a long time before I was eventually corrected.

I think when you change the perception of what is involved a particular role, the writing and acting need to be stepped up a notch and nothing can feel forced. Jodie Whitaker as the Doctor would be my example of a very forced storyline

Rightly or wrongly it seems HBO want to deviate away from the books somewhat and make the TV series their own and give a different experience to what was there for the films and as you correctly say it will be interesting to see if it works

Saw the official trailer this morning. Anybody else thinking new Harry looks a bit spaced out in some of these scenes?