Harry Potter Series - Magic or Curse?

(Cue the work of art - Harry Potter theme music)

Warner Bros. Discovery announced the new Harry Potter series soon to be screened at HBO Max, (now just Max), a flick and whoosh, and just like that the news took the entire world by a magical storm, creating a divide in the entire fandom greater than that of DC and Marvel!

To our dismay, many of the details are kept under the carpet, though the creators promise to create the show with the same fervour, the same magical beauty instilling in us the same feelings of wonder that this larger-than-life story is known for.

It will be a faithful adaptation of the beloved Harry Potter book series, as per an official press release from Warner Bros. Discovery. Warner Bros has declared that the series will run for a decade, dedicating each book to an entire series.

Is it stupid or bold to promise a decade-long series when even the cast is not decided? The first episode is assumed to air in 2025-26.

It was also declared that the author of the book herself, J.K. Rowling will be on board as Executive Producer. The happy fans were happy to hear this, for they are assured that the magical world will indeed stay magical if the mother of the wizarding world herself is playing an active part in the rebirth of the franchise. But similarly, it further enraged the counterpart for there exists enough hatred towards J.K. Rowling for her homophobic remarks, infuriating that she’ll get richer still.

I'm looking forward to being part of this new adaptation which will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long-form television series,' said Rowling.

The franchise of the wizarding world has already been faltering, with the increasing reputation of J.K. Rowling as homophobic since her anti-transgender remark in 2020, and the decline of the Fantastic Beast series, which was further fumed by Johnny Depp (villain Gellert Grindelwald) who resigned after his loss in a libel case in the U.K. in 2020.

Some believe that the memory of the Harry Potter world is imprinted in our memory with all its freshness, hence it is too soon to create a series and tarnish the vividly happy nostalgic feelings of the movies. People also doubt the ability of Warner Bros on how to handle the wizarding world since each Fantastic Beasts movie did poorer than the last one.

Though the supporters have much to say too, especially the readers who cherished the Harry Potter books and were disappointed with the movies with their efforts to capture 200-600 pages in around 150 minutes of the movie, changing characters (“We love Emma, but Hermoine is Black!!), scenes, and not giving a screen life to so many things that evoked pretty emotions in them.

Justice for Charlie Weasley, who didn’t even make it into the film versions. Maybe we’ll finally see him on our screens. Or the scene that showed a trickle of reconciliation between Harry and the Dudleys, which was too heart-wrenching to not add in the final cut.

Plus, the initial movies came in 2001, so people are thrilled to see what magic today's advanced technology can do to the majestic wizarding world!

Given the backlash and hatred towards the series, the magic lovers are just content to see more of the wizarding world that they have grown up loving.

Seems like this magical feud will come to rest only when the first episode of the series will come to life when people will tell whether the Warner Bros succeeded in making magic that we will come to cherish and love for a decade, or a curse that will tarnish our beloved memory of the Harry Potter world.