Trailer Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Season 1) trailer

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I never tried to control what my children read. I was happy that they were reading, so I suppose I never really censored or tried to investigate what they were reading. Some would say that was good, others would say that was bad. That take is probably another reason I never really read Harry Potter or felt the need to.

However, I have seen all the original movies.

I have a story that I love to relate: My mom's only question towards my reading material was a Highschool YA romance book called "Don't die my love" not the fact that I checked out Stephen king books but a high school YA romance that made her say i don't know if you should read that.

 

[GreyLord]

as someone who didn't grow up during the satanic panic due to D&D or heavy metal/rock music, my views are different. I know other christians who who refused to let their kids read harry potter because "magic" and then I also know of christians who encouraged reading it because "good vs evil"

The furor I saw was more to do with the idea that she was using "witches" as a term. In some Traditional Christian theology, witches are those who make a deal with the devil for power and become his "daughters."

In a similar vein (this is a D&D site!) they also had Warlocks, which did the same thing, but were basically male witches.

This was the furor of those Christians then, that these books were promoting witches as good things, when obviously, in their minds, from the past, witches were obviously wholly evil. Trying to portray evil as good was a crime in their minds.

This idea of bargaining with a outsider power to gain power for oneself actually can be seen as a basis for the Warlock class in D&D today!

Who could imagine what those during the Satanic Panic of the 80s would have thought if our current Warlock Class (they had a Witch in AD&D, but it was more of a hidden feature than a core class) was front and center back then!

 

[Tonguez]

Kinda surprised they just seem to be remaking the same movie but less cool, right down to having the same scenes.
I never read the books, but did see some of the movies - so not meh whatever

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Its going to be hard to really deviate from the books for the first two since they are short and the most clearly written for smaller kids. So the movies got most of it. Later on when they were having to cut entire subplots from the 700-800 page novels, that had gotten more sophisticated, is where the extra time a show will give them will help. But I wonder how much the writers of this are going to seek to make it theirs? But since JKR is apparently very involved with this hopefully that isn't an issue. I'm not a mega fan of HP though I did read and enjoy the novels, but I'll catch it when its available. They didn't really start getting good until the third book though. I ran across a text file of Chamber of Secrets in a network folder at a job I had way back when, not sure who put it there, and read it. I don't think I read the first book until I had already read 3 and 4 though. For me they kept getting better.

 

[Reynard]

Teachers, librarians, etc: do younger kids today still read and/or watch Harry Potter?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Teachers, librarians, etc: do younger kids today still read and/or watch Harry Potter?

My Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids could not be less interested (my oldest gave up halfway through the last book and never went back to it -- all that damned camping once JKR was clearly impossible to edit). They are bemused at how much their millennial teachers are into it.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I wonder what percentage of "Potterverse" fans got into it with the Hogwarts Legacy game which did over a billion dollars? I'm sure there will be quite a few people for whom this will be the first time with the original story.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I wonder what percentage of "Potterverse" fans got into it with the Hogwarts Legacy game which did over a billion dollars? I'm sure there will be quite a few people for whom this will be the first time with the original story.

I have a hard time picturing people with no connection to Harry Potter picking up the game. I'm sure they exist, but "quite a few" seems unlikely to me.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Yeah probably. Probably quite a few that never read the books compared to never seeing any of the original movies. But the movies would have been hard to avoid at some point for fans of this kind of material.

 

[jian]

As I recall, even before Rowling became super-toxic (or at least before the public was aware of her toxicity) she was very protective of her world, and wouldn't let others expand on it. I have a vague memory of Hasbro licensing Harry Potter back in the 00s and mentioning "role playing" in the press release, only to clarify a few days after that this was role playing in the sense of costumes and props, not RPGs, because Rowling wouldn't let anyone make an RPG where they could put words in her characters' mouths or expand on the world.


That's unfair. There's only one character with a broad accent, the policeman who's a British spy and speaks in a French accent to signify that his French is bad. The comedy mainly derives from catchphrases, sexism, and a bit of homophobia thrown in for spice. And how, for some reason, every androphile on the show finds this man extremely attractive:
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Nah, literally everyone on the show speaks with a broad accent to indicate their cultural origin. Annoyingly, you can’t tell whether they’re meant to be speaking French or German to each other by the accents they use, which that can be a useful shortcut for. Presumably the Germans speak German in private and speak French to the French? No idea.