Harry Potter | HBO series | Teaser Trailer

Looks good, but Snape needs more screen time

Wow, did not expect to get the show this year.

I'm pretty optimistic from the trailer.

Looks like they saved money by lighting most of those scenes with a single candle.

How is this going to be different than the movies? The first movie (really the first 3 movies) followed decently close to the book.

It will be hard for me to associate new actors with some of those characters but it looks like it’s going to be really well done.

I hate to admit it but I’m kind of sold. It looks great.

Snape looks absolutely fricking ridiculous but frick it, I’m in. They nailed the aesthetic and 90s feel that the originals stopped having after the first two movies. They nailed the magical, the sense of wonder and just how fricking fun it would be at Hogwarts.

I have a feeling they will eventually recast Snape and Dumbledore

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How is this going to be different than the movies? The first movie (really the first 3 movies) followed decently close to the book.

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I would say the first two.

The third movie, while good, was not as faithful to the source material as fans would have liked. Turning it into a television series allows the writers to explore subplots (both important and benign) that the movies had to cut for reasons of pacing or time. Goblet of Fire and Half-Blood Prince are two of the most egregious examples of the movies cutting out popular subplots (Voldermort's backstory) and characters (Ludo Bagman).

That looks great. All the people complaining it looks like the movies from the set pictures, I don't get that feeling at all.

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I’ve said before that I have zero problem with Hermione being black, because I don’t really think anything changes.

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I dont know, calling her mudblood would have been a bit interesting


Trailer was better than I expected and shocked we already have one.

Shocked it says Christmas 2026.

If you’re going to cast a Black Snape, just give him his own aesthetic. He doesn’t have to have long black greasy hair if he doesn’t have the white, sallow skin. Snape is a loser but he’s also a potions master, someone who is still intimidating and the actor looks and feels more intimidating with his shorter, natural hair. He just looks silly and not really the part like everyone else. Everyone else looks fantastic.

But he looks so bad it stands out. And it would have been passable if he just had shorter hair. The dreads are just fricking awful


TL;DR: this mf gonna have to act his arse off for people not to hate it and him as sad as that is to say