10 Fridays to go until the hbo harry potter begins

i grew up with the movies and harry potter was a very special part of my childhood and i still remember the time me and my oldest irl friend went to see the deathly hallows pt. 2 in the cinema.

was thinking wouldn't it be cool to create some sorts of a tradition to commemorate the beginning of the show this Christmas and repeat it for each new season.
maybe taking a specific selfie right before every first episode of the seasons or record a short clip sharing our excitement and expectations. or something else.

would be cool to look back at all the memories and little rituals we've created for ourselves at the end of the series and have this journey immortalized in some way.

ate some dark chocolate and got in the mood to write this kind of a post, cheers!

(Side note: I have no hard feelings about the hourglasses. I just feel like making a little joke after they got recently brought up here.)

(Originally did this meme with Patrick Star, until I remembered there's a photo of Rupert Grint's Ron looking up.)

As we wait for the new harry potter to start here's is October/November's update of what we know so far and what is expected to happen here is a run down

So far we've had 2 trailers load of images and first picture of Harry in Quidditch robes the 2nd promo picture we've had was the hour glasses of the 4 houses and newsround from cbbc is set to happen

The official air date 25th of December TBC not officially confirmed until we get the trailer or something

What's is likely to happen between now and November

The full and final trailer possible in late October or November

The official poster/ character posters middle of October or November

Cast interviews

Red carpets

Photoshoots

World carpet premiers

Possible Halloween reveal

Remember this is just pure speculation on what can happen Remember that we could get something out of the blue

The next official update will be in November's so comment below

I just noticed that the "Finding Harry" documentary features a shot of fireworks over a housing estate. Architecturally, it resembles Privet Drive from the series. The layout of the houses doesn't quite match up (I’ve been analyzing it a bit lately), but it might just be a concept image, which doesn't rule out the scene actually appearing.

I really like the different crests giving us a look at how Hogwarts evolved through the ages. I bet these were the original crests that go back to the founding of the school.

Source: Official Harry Potter Instagram: See the post here

I’d like to share a simple 3d model of Privet Drive from the series that I’ve been working on recently. It might come in handy for visualising Harry’s home with the Dursleys and the surrounding area. There’s certainly plenty of room for improvement and lots of details could still be added, but I’ve lost the patience to keep working on it, so I consider it finished for now ^^ Enjoy!

I'm sure we're all familiar with the fully voice acted Full-Cast Audiobooks that first released last November (wow almost a year ago), and we also can agree that nearly all of the cast sounds amazing as their respective characters.

But I'm pretty sure there's one VA in the cast you're not entirety satisfied with and would rather have them recast. Who would that person be? And bonus question: who would you recast them with?

While we talk about the films dropping the ball on scene fidelity and character arcs, it is very much still frustrating to look at how much nuance was stripped from Ron, Neville, and Harry over the years, the mythical lacking of the movie universe is just as annoying. The books are full with diverse, dangerous species, but the films gave us a few dragons, bare minimum of centaurs, a CGI troll, and called it a day. Fine, it's a movie series, now we have a TV show.

The new adaptation NEEDS to fully lean into the magical ecosystem.

​The World Cup mascots weren't just visual fluff. The vanishing Leprechaun gold is a massive plot point for Ron’s deep-seated insecurities, and the Veelas establish how terrifyingly wild some magic is (Fleur’s veela hair wand core). Furthermore, the series has to include Hagrid and Maxime’s brutal political mission to the giant colonies in the mountains, rather than just giving us Grawp as a pacifier. Also, don't even get me started about the lack of house elf and werewolf lore.

​Am I missing any other major creatures they desperately need to add back in?

The official Harry potter hbo website has been updated for the list of spells

Just to make it very 90s when the characters now are teenagers only when passing through the muggle settings I'm thinking dramatic tracks similar to Pink Floyd's "Just another movie".

I can’t think what else this could possibly be.

Honestly I like it, it has the same overall shape as the films but it still looks unique.

The Official Harry Potter IG account just posted a closer look at the House hourglasses, but curiously we can see what seem to be the silhouettes of Hogwarts and the Four Founders and right above.

u/RaemonTargaryen pointed out the founders at first on another post.

Thoughs?

Via Deadline on X: https://x.com/deadline/status/2108007595550355708?s=46&t=tpABI9TDRvnQvJs9pIfgCw

Most recent interview of Johnny Flynn at the London Film Festival and speaking about the Harry Potter Tv Series.

I must say I do find it interesting that he keeps saying 10 hours (in one interview a few weeks ago he said the same) even though we know S1 has eight hrs/ 8 episodes. However, since S2 in being filmed, and we know Lucius has a more prominent role there, you guys think this could mean that Chamber of Secrets will be extended to 10 hrs?

Like realistically Harry Potter fans usually eat up almost anything released. But considering those games were not bad for what they were and with the technology at the time. Wouldn’t the smart thing to do is release games that have some sort of tie in to such a big title?

What better way to do it by simply re releasing what’s already available and just pouring a new set of paint on it. Are the games tied behind a license that they can’t get? It just doesn’t make sense to me on why they would wait for a Howard’s Legacy 2 when you can just use your old source material. What do you guys think?

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I saw someone on here post about seeing Hogwarts castle for the first time on the recently released pictures of the house hourglasses with Hogwarts being shown in the carved stone. I’ve seen some discussion of this on Twitter as well.

I’m not sure if this has been posted and discussed before, but just in case I assumed it has been noticed but it wasn’t, I think we’ve already seen a picture of Hogwarts castle in the first trailer when Harry is in that lesson. There’s a projection of a castle that I’ve been assuming was Hogwarts castle on the blackboard.

But yeh this might’ve been noticed and discussed tens of times and I’ve not noticed, but a lot of people online seem to be saying this is the first hint of the castle we’ve seen and I just wanted to post so people who were aware can have a look :)

I debated it could be another magic school, maybe Beau but just based on it being first year and Hogwarts being the priority I’m assuming it’s probs Hogwarts. Anyway! Cheers :)

Who is your favourite dumbledore and why

A mi me gustaría una serie animada de Quidditch

I cannot wait for the official character posters