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HBO Boss Casey Bloys Says ‘Harry Potter’ Season 2 Is Being Written ‘Now’: ‘Our Goal Is to Not Have a Huge Gap’

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HBO Boss Casey Bloys Says ‘Harry Potter’ Season 2 Is Being Written ‘Now’: ‘Our Goal Is to Not Have a Huge Gap’
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HBO Boss Casey Bloys Says ‘Harry Potter’ Season 2 Is Being Written ‘Now’: ‘Our Goal Is to Not Have a Huge Gap’
HBO boss Casey Bloys says the network is already developing the second season of the highly anticipated 'Harry Potter' TV series.
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kneeco28 Mar 29, 2026 +4139
> Our goal is to not have a huge gap... It’s not going to be an annual Pick one.
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Just_Candle_315 Mar 29, 2026 +699
John Lithgow (Dumbledore) is 80 so.... tick tock
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jdbrew Mar 29, 2026 +446
Gotta keep with tradition and swap your dumble half way through
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PayneTrain181999 Mar 29, 2026 +90
They only made it 2 movies last time
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bonefresh Mar 29, 2026 +128
they gonna fumble the dumble
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IntoTheMusic Mar 29, 2026 +22
Then they need to randomly end with Jude Law playing a young Dumbledore again but then don't finish the story with him. Perfection. 😉
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roguefilmmaker Mar 29, 2026 +11
By the time they finish he’ll be old enough to play Potter-era Dumbledore (that actually would be kinda cool)
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Coolbluegatoradeyumm Mar 29, 2026 +15
I wonder who they have lined up for the back half of the series
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Chickenshit_outfit Mar 29, 2026 +7
Lenny Henry
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Janet-Yellen Mar 30, 2026 +6
Daniel Radcliffe
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B0omSLanG Mar 29, 2026 +16
Kick that Dumble out the dore!
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98Kane Mar 29, 2026 +107
How hard was it to just cast someone in their early 60s? These clowns never learn.
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Werthead Mar 29, 2026 +55
Back in the 1960s, the BBC cast one of the elderly roles in **Dad's Army** with an actor in his 40s because they wanted that character to be more physically active than the rest and get into slapstick situations, so they stuck him in *really good* old-age makeup. Then in the 1990s the BBC started a sitcom called **One Foot in the Grave**, about an elderly couple struggling to find things to do after retirement and getting into increasingly surreal situations, and cast both actors in their mid-50s playing older again because they wanted the show to go on a long time. Both actors are in fact still alive today. It feels odd the BBC with no money thought of that problem sixty years ago but HBO with all the money and prosthetics ability in the world did not think of it now. Genuinely bizarre.
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Busybodii Mar 30, 2026 +10
In the Golden Girls, the actresses that play mother and daughter were only a year apart. Makes sense to hedge your bets when making a show about older people.
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verrius Mar 30, 2026 +7
More ridulously though, the mother was a year younger than the daughter.
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OsmundofCarim Mar 30, 2026 +3
She spent a lot of time every day being made up to look much older. It was pretty impressive make up
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spookynutz Mar 29, 2026 +61
Or just slap some makeup on a guy. Ian Mcdiarmid was only 37 years old when he played Palpatine in Return of the Jedi.
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iwishihadnobones Mar 29, 2026 +33
37 was like 67 in the 70s
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Tibbaryllis2 Mar 29, 2026 +6
This reminds me that Harry and the Hendersons was one of my favorite movies growing up (born in 85, so through the 90’s), and I thought Lithgow looked old then. lol.
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Tibbaryllis2 Mar 29, 2026 +16
Precisely. And as great as Lithgow is, I don’t think he brings anything particularly unique or elevating to the role. It’s not like it’s a once in a lifetime perfect casting. Unless he’s channeling the Trinity Killer as Dumbledore, I don’t think he’s going to be all that differentiated from previous actors in the role. So it seems like the casting only really has downsides.
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GenericUsername2056 Mar 29, 2026 +133
Now featuring AI John Lithgow Dumbledore. 
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Historical_Owl_1635 Mar 29, 2026 +86
Oh god this a genuine possibility isn’t it.
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jchadwick86 Mar 29, 2026 +12
It's already happening with a new Val Kilmer movie I believe
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GenericUsername2056 Mar 29, 2026 +29
AI Val Kilmer is playing Dumbledore in a new film?
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JayKay8787 Mar 29, 2026 +168
He will be gone by season 3 and they will have another recast becuase they couldnt plan for anything ahead of s1. These executives are just baffling, they have these ips worth billions and never have the most basic common sense
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Existing_Set2100 Mar 29, 2026 +75
These things need a better pipeline, like why are the episodes for season 2 still being written?  It’d be one thing if it was only the showrunner as the sole writer but they have a writing team.  Ideally they should be close to actually shooting that season now. It’s not like they had to wait for it to be renewed. 
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peremadeleine Mar 29, 2026 +82
It’s also not like it’s a brand new original IP where they need to figure out where the story goes. I get that scripts need adapted etc, but surely adapting an existing book series that’s already been adapted into movies is about as straightforward as this ever gets?
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zagra_nexkoyotl Mar 29, 2026 +38
Also, they can afford to pay writers up front for two seasons. And then tweak season two scripts as needed. They should be shooting S2 already
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JayKay8787 Mar 29, 2026 +36
Through s4 should be written atp imo. Its f****** wild, they are cooking a recipe and didn't think to make sure they got all the ingredients first
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FatalTragedy Mar 29, 2026 +11
>They should be shooting S2 already They haven't even finished filming Season 1.
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Classic-Rise-37 Mar 29, 2026 +3
At the very least start shooting before the end of this year.
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Louis010 Mar 29, 2026 +6
It should have all been written or at least rough drafted before they even started casting… you’re dealing with kids that you need to look the right age and one of the main characters has to be old so you also need to finish it before he dies. Crazy they have no forethought at all
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JiveHawk Mar 29, 2026 +13
They should be shooting it already if they don’t want the aging to throw everything off. 
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Rhain1999 Mar 29, 2026 +6
They’re still filming season 1 atm, for the next few months, and they’re planning on heading into filming season 2 a few months after it’s finished
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madamesoybean Mar 29, 2026 +3
People - even writers need breaks? (Esp kids when it comes to shooting schedules)
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FatalTragedy Mar 29, 2026 +3
They are close to actually shooting Season 2. Season 1 hasn't even quite finished filming yet. IIRC, they finish filming Seaspn 1 in May, and the plan is to start filming Season 2 in July.
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d0ctorzaius Mar 29, 2026 +20
That describes executives in a lot of industries. The C-suite at my company were genuinely shocked that we lost revenue in Q1 compared to Q1 last year despite, you know, every obvious macroeconomic indicator suggesting that would be the case.
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OnTheMattack Mar 29, 2026 +8
Dumbledore only gets more action heavy as the series goes on. We're going to have a 92 year old Lithgow fighting fire zombies.
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ViciousNakedMoleRat Mar 29, 2026 +9
Season 4 would air in what, 6-7 years? He'd certainly be replaced by AI.
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goddamnitwhalen Mar 29, 2026 +33
I will be stunned if all seven seasons of this show make it to air.
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steponmedaddies Mar 29, 2026 +11
I can't imagine a situation that would cause them to put this on ice. It's getting finished. WAY too much money on the table.
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AtraposJM Mar 29, 2026 +5
Well if it sucks and views are only OK and then get worse and worse, there's a point where you have to cut your losses or you risk losing more and more money.
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turkeygiant Mar 29, 2026 +6
Its going to be wild in season eight...sixteen years from now when Dumbledore is being played by Jared Harris, Harry is balding, Hermione can only be shot chest up because she is pregnant with her first kid, and Ron is a regular on AI Joe Rogan's neuralcast show.
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IdRatherBeAtChilis Mar 29, 2026 +5
Maybe I'm cynical, but it sure looks like executives are way better at wasting money than making it. I could easily see them abandoning this after a season or two of even reasonable returns.
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MattBrey Mar 29, 2026 +12
In this case in particular, every step has felt like a joke going too far? Idk how to explain it. Like some executive suggested the remake as a bit of a crazy idea and every person involved just went ahead with it until they actually started casting and filming and it turned real, and now they have to commit. I personally still can't believe its getting made, I'll have this feeling until I actually see the show being released.
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verissimoallan Mar 29, 2026 +15
He's already older than Richard Harris was when he passed away (72 years in 2002). I understand wanting to cast Lithgow because he is a great actor, but at the same time it's so risky that I'm genuinely surprised that no executive pushed for the easier option of casting an actor in his 60s and aging him further with makeup (remembering that Dumbledore is 110 years old).
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MtFuzzmore Mar 29, 2026 +4
Continuing the tradition of Dumbledore’s actor dying and being replaced midway-ish through the story.
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CaptainTripps82 Mar 29, 2026 +14
History doesn't really repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes That role is definitely getting recast
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Scruffylookin13 Mar 29, 2026 +694
Come on, I got a little more sense than that. Yeah, I remember grinding my feet into Eddie's couch
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phronemoose Mar 29, 2026 +142
DARKNESS-ES!
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luckyfucker13 Mar 29, 2026 +69
Because of my complexion, he used to call me Darkness. He calls me and my brother Darkness. The Darkness Brothers. See, this is long before Wesley Snipes.
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kevin2fla Mar 29, 2026 +34
Habitual line stepper
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surelyyoucantBcereus Mar 29, 2026 +3
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
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Itoggat Mar 29, 2026 +17
Why would you do that ?
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deadpoolfool400 Mar 29, 2026 +29
Because I knew he could afford another one!
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ImGonnaImagineSummit Mar 29, 2026 +17
You don't know how to appreciate shit! What'mIgonnado'boutmylegs,EddieMurphy?
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abdab909 Mar 29, 2026 +4
*UNIT-TEEEEE!*
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CrissBliss Mar 29, 2026 +100
Its gonna be like Stranger Things where the child actors are married by the final season 😅
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Morgan-Moonscar Mar 29, 2026 +33
Married... with Children.
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CTQ99 Mar 29, 2026 +5
Their children will continue their roles
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Harford0 Mar 29, 2026 +127
Maybe annual for the first 3 seasons and then every 18 months for the final 4? Thats not too bad. I do think they are also waiting to see how successful this first season will be
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Lindsiria Mar 29, 2026 +60
This is what I assumed it was gonna be. 
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PayneTrain181999 Mar 29, 2026 +28
They also need to ensure the kids still look the proper age. 19-20 playing 17 is passable
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CptNonsense Mar 29, 2026 +23
>19-20 playing 17 is passable 20 somethings can play mid teenagers **if** they were cast for it. There is no guarantee an actor will age into looking like they can still play teenagers. Rupert Grint was 22 in Deathly Hallows and *looked it*
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Mrchristopherrr Mar 29, 2026 +16
I just chose to believe that Ron was stressed out, which I mean he was.
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Klutzy_Carpet_9170 Mar 29, 2026 +5
What’s the solution then? Recast them? People need to learn to suspend their disbelief at times. Casting directors can’t foresee actors’ appearance in S7 of a show
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tequilamockngbrd Mar 29, 2026 +5
Exactly. And legit no one cared if Rupert Grint looked older than 17 by DH part 2 lol. This has never been a problem with any teen show or film in the past, it won't start being one now.
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Wrong-Vermicelli4723 Mar 29, 2026 +33
Waiting means it won’t be annual for the first 3 seasons. They’d have to start filming soon for a second season to be released a year later 
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Zoratth Mar 29, 2026 +21
It pretty much has to be something like that, otherwise those kids are going to be 30 year olds playing 17 year olds at the end.
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kiwi3p Mar 29, 2026 +12
How bad is that really? I never saw anyone complaining about this with Stranger Things! /s
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FreshestCremeFraiche Mar 29, 2026 +9
HP might actually be worse since the overaged main cast would be surrounded by teenage extras in the school all the time, it would be so obvious. In ST they are standing next to Hopper and Vecna so they still look young lol
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FX114 Mar 29, 2026 +9
You can age up the extras, too.
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Asclepius-Rod Mar 29, 2026 +3
I just don’t think there’s any chance in hell this *isn’t* incredibly successful
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These-Software1991 Mar 29, 2026 +12
The plan is annually then 18 months yes, but they are absolutely not waiting to see how popular it is.  They will have half finished production of s2 by the time s1 releases - ditto for S3. As for success, this is HBO's cash cow - it is what they plan to use to fund other things. They have already built so much infrastructure that they are 💯 percent (financially speaking) expecting to do all 7 seasons.  The ONLY thing that could stop this would be like zero popularity (which we just know ain't gonna happen, bcos hello Percy Jackson S3) or the tragic death of MULTIPLE main actors. So yeah, no worries in that department.  (As a massive Potterhead I'm actually more scared bcos i know they don't HAVE to make it brilliant to bring in viewers - i kinda wish they had some more stakes lol but they've proven how much they care already).
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CptNonsense Mar 29, 2026 +5
>but they are absolutely not waiting to see how popular it is. Because they absolutely don't need to. Despite the position of the chronically online, Harry Potter IP still prints money
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Onesharpman Mar 29, 2026 +34
Probably 18 months. That's not too novel. Sopranos did it 20 years ago.
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kneeco28 Mar 29, 2026 +82
Tony Soprano wasn't played by a 12 year old who ages 7 years across 7 seasons.
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GenericUsername2056 Mar 29, 2026 +34
Forty-seven, he was a kid.
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Blart_Vandelay Mar 29, 2026 +3
I heard Delores Umbridge had a 95lb mole removed from her ass
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turtlesrprettycool Mar 29, 2026 +4
Hogwarts is a small school. She moves in, she could tip it over.
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jackyLAD Mar 29, 2026 +9
Comparison is weak. The Sopranos was an original screenplay, 13 episodes (I'm absolutely assuming this will be less) , yearly for it's first 3 years... and wasn't based in high school. Stranger Things showed why taking massive gaps even over 5 seasons is wild. They can absolutely get away with it later on, but not years 1 to 3...
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nondescriptun Mar 29, 2026 +3
It's not going to be an annual- it's going to be quarterly! (/s)
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DrogoOmega Mar 29, 2026 +3
They can write and produce them quicker, btu the final product might not be released exactly on a yearly rate. Makes sense as we have basaliks, dragons, hypogriffs and dementors to come in the next few alone.
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AuroraFinem Mar 29, 2026 +5
Not being annual doesn’t necessarily mean long gaps. They probably meant they wouldn’t be on an annual release schedule where they release every fall or something.
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TyposIncoming Mar 29, 2026 +2
Not even the movies came out annually and now you're adding over double the run time
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al_ien5000 Mar 29, 2026 +1935
If only there was a script or source they could read from
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DanFarrell98 Mar 29, 2026 +281
Ah if only it was that easy
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GoonieMcflyguy Mar 29, 2026 +62
There are moments in life where we need to choose between what is right and what is easy.
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KingHarambeRIP Mar 29, 2026 +31
HBO: Let’s choose neither!
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Inigomntoya Mar 29, 2026 +4
But remember this: You have friends here. You’re not alone.
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CumAssault Mar 29, 2026 +113
They gotta rewrite a lot of it for Snape’s backstory changes. I don’t think anyone wants to see Harry’s dad hanging Snape from a tree during a bullying session
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DarthHM Mar 29, 2026 +177
That’s not actually a thing that happens in the book. Bully Potter levitates him upside down exposing his tighty whities.
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inspectorseantime Mar 29, 2026 +24
> Bully Potter I wanna see this series have James put some dirt in Snape’s eye
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WeHave200Couches Mar 29, 2026 +8
That’s a cute robe, did a mudblood give it to you?
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trickman01 Mar 29, 2026 +61
He never hands Snape from a tree in the books or the movies. He uses the levicorpus spell to dangle him in the air.
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EchoesofIllyria Mar 29, 2026 +27
This shit’s just gonna keep getting perpetuated for the next decade isn’t it
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ElasticPlatypus Mar 29, 2026 +80
The backstory that isn’t revealed until the 5th book?
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NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Mar 29, 2026 +15
He wasn't hung from a tree.
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Current_Mushroom_125 Mar 29, 2026 +30
James doesn't hang Snape from a tree. Not in the books or the movies.
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Boodger Mar 29, 2026 +34
He wasn't hung from a tree, stop spreading this false information.
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tgcp Mar 29, 2026 +20
Try doing some research before repeating the spurious nonsense you saw on Instagram.
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Vladmerius Mar 29, 2026 +15
That stupid bullshit is a psyop excuse to ignore what they're actually doing with Snape which is whitewashing the Nazi symbolism and white supremacist allegory that the death eaters and Voldemort represent. I am really starting to lose my mind over this pervasive claim that the reason people don't like the Snape casting is because of one scene where he's bullied. 
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Something_Sexy Mar 29, 2026 +4
That shouldn’t be difficult.
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mio26 Mar 29, 2026 +7
At the same scene Snape behaved rascistic towards Lily who wants to help him. Apart Lily no one was presented there as angel.
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Animus16 Mar 29, 2026 +8
He doesn’t quite hang him from a tree. They could also make it slightly less bad by also race-swapping Remus or Pettigrew. Making Sirius black would be a little on the nose
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roguefilmmaker Mar 30, 2026 +5
That’s the issue. Harry is already white so James is white. Sirius being black is too on the nose. Pettigrew is the evil one so that’s a bad look. And Remus is shunned by society and considered unstable and a risk of violence
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MartyMcBird Mar 30, 2026 +6
Hang on you're kind of cooking with Remus' description
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buttymuncher Mar 29, 2026 +322
Lets hope Lithgow can last the 10 years it's going to take to finish
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DarthBaio Mar 29, 2026 +266
10 years? What kind of fast track miracle do you envision happening?
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Berrymore13 Mar 29, 2026 +60
I mean that’s what they said lol. We’ll see if it holds true. But HBO themselves said their goal is 10 years to get the 7 seasons out
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JortsForSale Mar 29, 2026 +81
If they can’t release season 1 at Christmas 2026 and season 2 at Christmas 2027 then there is 0 chance at a ten year plan. As far as I know they already have said season 2 won’t be a year later. This is a 15 year show. I am calling it now.
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ikeif Mar 29, 2026 +18
Well, they can always shoot it continuously, while releasing it staggered. I am making a big guess/assumption here - but since they are "reusing costumes/locations/designs" I imagine that saves time and money, which would allow a faster shooting table, and might pay off in the long-run.
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Officialginger2595 Mar 29, 2026 +18
they arent shooting it continuously though, this post is literally about how they are still writing the second season, which implies there have been at least a few months of them being out of shooting. These first two books are considerably shorter than the others, if they are already taking breaks, they will be taking even longer ones in the future books.
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Competitive-Desk7506 Mar 29, 2026 +4
To clarify s1 hasn’t finished filming yet and they only began writing s2 back in November of last yr and intend to begin later this yr, it’s a fine schedule bc it can work.
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feage7 Mar 29, 2026 +4
Which is mad when you think the films took 10 years for 7. And yes I know that one film is 2-3 hours and a full season is (well how many episodes have they cut it down to now?) 8 hours. But the books weren't even written then.
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WithBlackStripes Mar 29, 2026 +23
People are so conditioned to long gaps between seasons of television that a yearly release would be called a “fast track miracle”. Depressing.
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ItsEaster Mar 29, 2026 +4
That’s just how the modern industry works unfortunately.
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PayneTrain181999 Mar 29, 2026 +11
They could film some of his Chamber of Secrets-Half Blood Prince scenes with other teachers/adult characters out of order, but they need him for the King’s Cross scene with Harry in Deathly Hallows, not to mention most of Half Blood Prince
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hellogoawaynow Mar 29, 2026 +186
Being *written*? Yeah those kids are going to age out of this even faster if a few seasons weren’t written in advance.
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HoboOlympics Mar 29, 2026 +29
Aka Percy Jackson
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Anustart2023-01 Mar 29, 2026 +131
I thought they were going to go for the old tradition of transitioning from kids playing kids in the first season to 30 year olds playing teenagers in the final season. 
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CharMakr90 Mar 29, 2026 +97
Tbh, the original film series was pretty good with that. Radcliffe, Grint, and Watson were 20-22 when they were filming the last movie where their characters were supposed to be 17. And they looked quite age-appropriate too.
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TheLimeyLemmon Mar 29, 2026 +35
Yeah they really lucked out on most of the main child actors not going through freakish growth spurts or looking obviously too old for the age they're playing. The only awkward one was Harry Melling as Dudley because the prosthetics in the later films didn't look too great, but there we go.
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wkavinsky Mar 30, 2026 +13
Dunno, the glow up on Neville was kind of hard to hide.
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kosherkitties Mar 29, 2026 +7
Idk I'm pretty sure most of the people involved don't want anything to do with transitioning.
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Adrian_FCD Mar 29, 2026 +56
Bogles my mind that they can't deliver 10 episodes a year with the structure and planning that seems to be going for this show.
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ReservoirDog316 Mar 29, 2026 +13
Network tv is where you want to go if you want yearly releases. Stuff like Abbott Elementary and The Simpsons and NCIS and the Matlock Premium tv has basically never had shows come out yearly. People want the production quality and lack of filler episodes and bottle episodes of premium tv like Game of Thrones but the amount of episodes and yearly output of network tv like NCIS. Episodes of premium tv take about a month to film. Episodes of network tv take about 1 week to film, give or take. The first premium tv show in HBO history was Philip Marlowe, Private Eye in 1983 with a 5 episode first season and season two was in 1986 with a 6 episode second season. People have been used to this output for years but have only recently started complaining about it not because of the system, but because they can’t connect that the extra long wait times between seasons lately was because of Covid and the year long industry strikes that happened. On top of that, people were so into Game of Thrones having an epic scale that the CGI backlog for the shows is making it take longer too. Stuff like people laughing at the green screens and that one CGI deer in The Walking Dead all those years ago made studios think audiences would rather wait a little longer than put up with that kinda thing. On top of that, the one big big thing that’ll slow down the production for this particular show is there’s intense regulations on how long child actors can work per day. Basically every tv show in existence works 12 hour days, with most going closer to 16-18 hour days. The Harry Potter show can’t do that. Maybe if they have two production teams working concurrently, but that’s extremely expensive. Contrary to what everyone on listnook thinks, it’s actually hard to make a tv show and they’re not overlooking one easy trick to pull it off cheaper and faster.
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thegracchiwereright Mar 30, 2026 +4
But why could Game of Thrones do it 10 years ago and they can’t do it now? Nobody expects 24 episodes from premium TV. Audiences expect 10 to 13 *every year.* That’s what we got in the previous decade. It was fine to blame industry strikes and Covid for 2020-2023. It’s not fine anymore. You can’t blame strikes that happened 2 years ago for things that are being written today.
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_theMAUCHO_ Mar 30, 2026 +3
Amazing explanation, appreciate your comment.
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nikhkin Mar 29, 2026 +388
The same man who said it was "just not possible" to release episodes every year, just a few days ago... That was some quick backtracking.
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Direct-Season-1180 Mar 29, 2026 +116
He also said months ago they were planning on filming season 2 pretty much back to back with season 1. So not really backtracking. There’s probably a break between season 2 and 3. 
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rjwalsh94 Mar 29, 2026 +92
If it’s being written now it won’t be filming back to back. It looks like they’ve got a substantial amount of content filmed. It will have a ton of post production given the content and need of CGI. It just won’t be filming back to back, closest is probably a 6-8 month break. I assume they’ll be done filming in the coming weeks/month or two.
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ann1920 Mar 29, 2026 +24
Season 2 writing started in November so this update is more that they are still writing it.
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batsofburden Mar 29, 2026 +20
No, they're taking a 2-3 month break.
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Asclepius-Rod Mar 29, 2026 +5
Which works pretty well in terms of how old the characters are supposed to age between books actually
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batsofburden Mar 30, 2026 +3
I didn't even think about that, but you're totally right.
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OnceABackpacker Mar 29, 2026 +22
It’s been reported by somewhat reliable insiders that season 1 finishes filming in May. They will then take a two month break and season 2 will begin production in July. Of course that could change or not be true at all. But I do believe they intend to stick to that schedule for the first 3 seasons while the kids are growing rapidly.
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pepperbet1 Mar 29, 2026 +11
>"Our goal is to not have a huge gap, you know, especially because the kids are growing,” Bloys said. “It’s not going to be an annual; the show is too big and too massive. But … they’re writing the season two now.
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redwriterhand Mar 29, 2026 +17
he’s still not saying that? he just hopes there won’t be a big gap. did you read it?
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pepperbet1 Mar 29, 2026 +210
The movies, except the first 2 or 3, released on 18 month cycles. It was fine.
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PRSArchon Mar 29, 2026 +66
They released 8 movies in slightly less than 10 years, an average of 17 months between movies. If they do the same it will indeed be fine, but i hardly doubt they can make 4x the content (assuming 8 hours per season) in the same timeframe. Either quality or speed will drop.
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EagleForty Mar 29, 2026 +36
If only they had more time since the movies came out to plan for this!
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Chilling_Gale Mar 29, 2026 +4
The logical idea was probably to mash together books 1 and 2 in the same season. I feel like people aren’t talking enough about how the hell they are even stretching book 1 into 8 hour-long episodes.
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TheVermonster Mar 29, 2026 +117
Yeah but 18 months when the actor is 11 is quite different than 18 months when the actor is 17.
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frezz Mar 29, 2026 +12
What do you mean? Radcliffe was 11 when Philosopher's stone was released, and Dominic McLaughlin is too
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__Hello_my_name_is__ Mar 29, 2026 +21
The characters age one year between each book.
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GenericGaming Mar 29, 2026 +97
"not to have a huge gap"? surely you'd write multiple seasons at the same time? or like, not wait until season 1 is almost out to start?
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TyposIncoming Mar 29, 2026 +37
Season 1 doesn't come out for 9 months
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I_am_so_lost_hello Mar 29, 2026 +15
They haven’t even finished filming season 1, and that’s also not how script writing works. The season 2 script will reflect what worked well in season 1, what could be improved, the actors strengths and personalities, which sets are easier/harder to work with etc.
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sufficiently_tortuga Mar 29, 2026 +9
Surely season 2 will reflect The Chamber of Secrets...
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thegoldengoober Mar 29, 2026 +7
Considering they have total source material, are aware the series is dependent on an aging cast, another successful adaptation to work with, within about as much of a "print me money" franchise as you could possibly have... It makes zero sense to me that these aren't being written in filmed at the same time.  They should have this stuff being filmed practically back to back. They're not just limited by the aging of the actors, but also the hours they have to work with them. I'm glad I don't hold any personal emotional or financial stakes in the success of this, because these decisions are baffling and do not bode well.
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happy-cig Mar 29, 2026 +129
Watching the teaser makes it look just like the movie. Can't they just copy that? 
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EscapeSeventySeven Mar 29, 2026 +245
They could just play the movie instead and save a lot of money. 
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The_Schnitz Mar 29, 2026 +13
And if they split each movie into 8 segments and play them all at half speed, it’s basically a full season
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EscapeSeventySeven Mar 29, 2026 +6
Perfect second screen viewing!!!!!
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BB-Zwei Mar 29, 2026 +16
Given that there's no box office revenue, I really don't understand how this series isn't just a huge money pit. I realise that HP makes huge amounts of money in merch etc. but surely it would have done anyway?
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CranhamorBlakely Mar 29, 2026 +25
When Stranger Things season 4 came out Netflix gained 2.4 million subscribers in one quarter. Netflix was 20 dollars, that’s 48 million dollars…so the price of an episode or two. Wait…how is this series not just a huge money pit lol
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Historical_Owl_1635 Mar 29, 2026 +3
Yet Netflix’s market cap absolutely dwarfs even Disney (Not Disney+, Disney). Whatever they’re doing is working.
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MainAccountsFriend Mar 29, 2026 +6
It must be a front for drugs
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hospitalizedzombie Mar 29, 2026 +3
They are banking on first keeping part of those subscribers for longer periods, second they want to sell merchandise to people, third they wanna tap into a new audience, mainly kids of millennials who are currently the core audience for Harry Potter.
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Wrong-Vermicelli4723 Mar 29, 2026 +6
It’s going to be way longer than the movie 
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Aaaaaaandyy Mar 29, 2026 +37
The movie was 2ish hours long. This will probably be between 8-10 hours long to encapsulate more of what happened in the book the movies had to cut.
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hiplobonoxa Mar 29, 2026 +23
i think this is the point that a lot of people are missing. the parts that have already been put to film will look just like the movies, but there will be hours upon hours of extra details that will build out the characters and the world. even in the trailer that dropped, you can see that even minor characters and minor moments are being given the chance to breathe. it’s not like they can get the original cast back together to do this — it has been over twenty-five years since the first film.
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Isiddiqui Mar 29, 2026 +8
Some of those extra stories were already in the teaser (Harry’s unsuccessful haircuts, History of Magic class, etc)
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GenericUsername2056 Mar 29, 2026 +4
Just de-age them like DeNiro. People thought that looked good, right?
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Cross55 Mar 30, 2026 +3
Actually, movies 1 and 2 are incredibly book accurate, which makes sense, they're the shortest. The only real condemnable point was removing Tonk's actual introduction and role as Harry's Quidditch mentor. (But she barely appeared in the movies to begin with) The real issues start popping up in movie 3, and then just go into overdrive in movies 4-onward.
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Burgoonius Mar 29, 2026 +12
Did you actually watch it? Because a lot of the scenes were not in the movie lol
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DaKingaDaNorth Mar 29, 2026 +44
They are going to cover much more material
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Wazula23 Mar 29, 2026 +46
Woo House Elf slavery!!
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Goldman250 Mar 29, 2026 +25
Don’t forget literally everyone mocking Hermione for trying to stop said slavery, because she’s the only one who cares.
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lefrench75 Mar 29, 2026 +16
She was just too ignorant to realize that most of the slaves were happier as slaves, you see?
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VitaminTea Mar 30, 2026 +3
...do you genuinely think the books endorse house-elf slavery? It's quite clear in the text that Hermione is right.
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I_really_enjoy_beer Mar 29, 2026 +31
Do we really need these comments in every thread about this show? The season is going to be 4 times longer than the movies. 
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Onesharpman Mar 29, 2026 +17
It's funny how everyone hated the movies and kept saying they cut too much out, and now that we're getting a TV show suddenly the movies are iconic and "we don't need this" lol
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ParkerPoseyGuffman Mar 29, 2026 +3
Everyone didn’t hate the movies
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ngl_tbh_ Mar 29, 2026 +28
I am not feeling the hype for this one. Pretty much no desire to watch.
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Besrsrn Mar 29, 2026 +25
Whaaaat? You mean the idea of a decades old IP desperately putting together a show based on movies based on books after several years of unsuccessful spinoffs/prequels/sequels doesn't thrill you?
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Jbob9954 Mar 29, 2026 +23
Why does this even exist
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-Radiation Mar 29, 2026 +15
What a pointless tv series
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GoldenTriforceLink Mar 29, 2026 +41
I cannot believe everyone in the comments here think scripts are just books printed in paper stacks.
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WoodpeckerGingivitis Mar 29, 2026 +20
It’s honestly so funny. Do they think the characters are just gonna read the book verbatim?
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ocbro2 Mar 29, 2026 +18
Harry Potter and the Diminishing Return on Investment
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Jonny2284 Mar 29, 2026 +3
Feels like in new streaming terms that still means 18 months - 2 year gap though.
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icanith Mar 29, 2026 +7
You are writing it now??? Motherfucka, this aint GoT, the source material is done. My suggestion is get a few seasons ahead. My god if you need to change it, then you do, but you shouldnt need to change much.
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Spiritual_Sleep162 Mar 29, 2026 +15
There is no reason, not film back to back. I mean this will be HBOs flagship show for the next decade. Are their tax reasons behind not filming it back to back. I can't see any other reason for not filming back to back.
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Jr05s Mar 29, 2026 +17
Probably because the stars of the show are children and can't work 40 hour weeks 
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sjphilsphan Mar 29, 2026 +14
Slackers
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Dr_Hotdogz Mar 29, 2026 +22
Stop giving JK Rowling more money to victimize trans people!
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darlin133 Mar 29, 2026 +25
no thanks. I’m not giving my cash to an anti trans bigot.
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mindthegoat_redux Mar 29, 2026 +8
Go for it, do it in one go, do it in gaps. Either way, you’ll make the show regardless and I won’t be watching it to give Joanne more money to hurt people. You’re grand, mate.
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JimmyTheJimJimson Mar 29, 2026 +8
I think with the nazification of JK Rowling, I’m not too sure I actually give a f*** about this?
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ScottOwenJones Mar 29, 2026 +2
Honestly, how f****** hard could it be to write multiple seasons at a time? Why wait until a season is done filming to start on the next one? Just seems needlessly slow
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fullmetalalchymist9 Mar 29, 2026 +2
These kids are gonna be damn near 30 by the time it’s over and it shouldn’t even really really exist.
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Spider-Man-Spider Mar 29, 2026 +2
There's no reason to not have a team of writers adapting each book into a season concurrently. Have someone running the room and someone else running the set. Also, none of this is worth a damn because the movies were amazing and beloved adaptations.
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Ariana2354 Mar 29, 2026 +2
This should never have been attempted. If you're going to do a series, do one on the Marauders, or the founders.
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November87 Mar 30, 2026 +2
It'll be garbage regardless
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KrawhithamNZ Mar 30, 2026 +2
It's a finished book series, it's not like they need to come up with storylines. The writing isn't what is slowing this down.  You have a cast made up of an octogenarian and children that will grow up.  Even the movies got silly by the end with how grown up they were in the face.  This is all so they can cancel it if the ratings are bad. 
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ernie-jo Mar 30, 2026 +2
Let’s be honest, this show is getting canceled after season 3 comes out in 5 years. It’ll take too long, ratings will decline each year, and season 4/book 4 will be expensive enough they’ll cancel before they start. 
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natedogjulian Mar 30, 2026 +2
Our plan is to boycott, so there’s that
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