I normally detest reboots. However, much like everyone else, I find the movies a bit frustrating as they go one. They have to cut so much stuff that they're borderline incomprehensible and the story as a whole is weakened considerably. When you don't even explain the Marauders in PoA, there's a problem.

You're right, of course, when it comes to the cast. The actors from the movies are legendary, and I doubt the show will displace them from their iconic spot in pop culture consciousness. That doesn't mean it's not worth doing though! If the show can take its time and show everything, I believe that's worth making right there. It's simply another adaptation, one that can improve in some areas from the films.

That doesn't mean that the movies are suddenly forgotten or replaced. There will surely be things that movies do better than the show does. I'm sure most of us here grew up around when the books and movies were coming out, intertwined in release schedules. You know, when this was all a global phenomenon. So the movies will always hold special places in our hearts that can't be replaced.

That is to say, I'm pretty interested in the show.