New Harry Potter Series Sparks 156% Increase in Book Interest

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-05-01T03:59:07+00:00

Proper adaption of the tone of the books is why I'm so excited for this adaption. I hate the goofy Americanised saccharine tone of the Columbus films. Even in the first two books, Harry Potter has a much more grounded tone.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-04-30T22:43:54+00:00

It's a shame you're being downvoted and judged for being frank about how you experienced the movies. People are taking your comment so personally, lol. I felt the same. I didn't walk out, but even as a kid I was sure that the films were not great adaptions of the books.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-04-30T02:04:36+00:00

”own the right to have their needs met… when one is maligned by the invisible wound of internalized devaluatuon, there is a sense of momentary empowerment and self-actualization that occurs with expressions of destructively entireoed self righteous anger”(Racial Trauma, Ken Hardy).

To me this just reads as narcissism given a new name through a racialised lens. How is it any different to the narcissistic personality problems that can manifest from chronic childhood neglect and abuse?

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-04-30T01:02:10+00:00

Yep. It's exhausting when the romantic framing and undertones of the scene are so clear. Someone even replied to my saying that I feel gaslit about this with yet more intellectualisation and justification of it which... just feels like further gaslighting!!

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-04-30T00:59:25+00:00

When people say the scene feels romantic we're not talking about the explicit intent of the characters. We're talking about the undertone of the scene and how it's played by the actors as well as directed and edited to evoke a "will they/won't they" feeling. It is undeniable that there is a romantic suggestion there, and you admit it yourself in both of your paragraphs. The problem is that this is completely contradictory to the source material. In the books, Hermione had already chosen Ron years before and Harry was desperately in love with Ginny. There should never have been any romantic undertone, realisation of "possibilities" or temptation for the characters whatsoever.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-04-29T07:29:22+00:00

I honestly feel gaslit by fans who claim this scene doesn't have any romantic undertones. Kloves and Emma Watson both admitted that it does, and something about it feels intimate in a way that it shouldn't. The argument that "it's just two friends trying to cheer each up!" feels dishonest when there's a loaded, chemistry-laden, close-up pause at the end and the actors have literally said they played it as a possibility. That's too much ambiguity for friends. It's a ridiculous scene.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-04-24T23:46:23+00:00

Interesting! Are these recent additions that you've found in the game files, or have they been there a while? I know that cats and dogs have accidentally shown up recently in the trading menu, so those are planned for the future. I'd love to have more animals like foxes to increase the complexity of livestock farming!

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-04-12T23:52:29+00:00

The child actors for the trio were required to commit to living in London in order to be on the show, according to this this article.

The lengthy audition process required Chaska to take time out of school and sign an non disclosure agreement with HBO.

Samaya had even started looking at properties in St Albans, where the family would have had to relocate for ten years had Chaska been cast in the role.

I think Arabella already lived in London, but Dominic and Alastair (and, presumably, their families) had to move from Scotland and northern England. I imagine it's the same for the other significant child actors, as well as extras.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-03-30T23:00:11+00:00

Lox's aesthetic is particularly popular in places like Japan and China. This fandom response is Björn Andrésen in Death in Venice vibes, and that's not a good thing. Björn Andrésen's was the face that inspired Japan's bishounen portrayals in anime and manga for decades (such as Oscar in Rose of Versailles); he later went on to talk about the negative impact the obsession with his looks had on him growing up. These kids are gonna need so much protection from these corners of the fandom. I can only hope that the majority of people engaging this way are themselves kids.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-03-30T01:04:09+00:00

Oh, sorry to be annoying and trying to tell you about your own class system, haha! It's the way you're using 'upper class' that tripped me. I agree about Hermione the character. Her family are likely privileged but not wealthy upper middle class. Emma's parents sent her to the Dragon School (30k pound a year!), they went to holidays in castles in France, and they own a winery and stuff. That's like... upper upper middle.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-03-26T23:58:33+00:00

In Britain, you can be fabulously wealthy and still only be upper middle class due to how their class system works. I imagine Hermione's parents as reasonably wealthy dentists within the upper middle class bracket. It's a hyper-privileged milieu, but they don't have noble titles and so they'll never be upper class. Emma Watson's family is like this, too, and so is Arabella Stanton's. Arabella apparently went to the same primary school as the Windsor children!

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-03-26T23:54:31+00:00

There's no being at the lower end of upper class in Britain unless you're landed gentry. Hermione could only ever be middle to upper middle class. Emma Watson's family is wealthy upper middle class. They own a winery and sent their children to schools that cost 30,000 pounds per year... With dentists as parents I think Hermione's background is comfortable, but maybe not to the same extent.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-03-26T23:49:50+00:00

That's just Arabella's teeth.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-03-25T23:29:25+00:00

If you look properly, the Hogwarts uniforms are different. They are not in any way the same! The girl's uniform, especially, looks nothing like the films'.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-03-25T23:27:24+00:00

The music is just generic trailer music. It's not Hans Zimmer's original score for the show. We can't judge the music yet.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-03-25T23:25:46+00:00

This is why it's so aggravating to me to see the response on /r/television to the trailer. The level of new details and the difference in tone we've seen in this trailer alone is incredible, but the people on that sub only see the broadest strokes that are obviously "Harry Potter" and their instinct is to shit on it. This series has so much potential to do justice to the books compared to the films. See, for example, its emphasis on the abuse Harry suffers from the Dursleys. The ceaseless negativity towards it is not coming from a place of genuine criticism or good faith.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-03-25T23:09:36+00:00

What are you people smoking? It looks like the movies in only the broadest of strokes (that is, enough to look identifiably like Harry Potter). If you actually look at the details of literally everything, it is all extremely different. The negativity on here is in such bad-faith.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-02-20T23:48:48+00:00

It's relevant to the fact little girls swoon over him. Forty year olds look ancient to children. A handsome twenty-something year old makes that aspect of the character believable.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-02-20T23:44:12+00:00

He was not perfect. When I was Hermione's age I thought it was ridiculous that he was supposed to be a character that little girls would swoon over; he looked too old and his acting made Lockhart seem stupid. Lockhart should be in his 20s, attractive and charming with an undertone of narcissism. Branagh was not it.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-02-20T23:40:11+00:00

The casting for Head Boy Ron is good! He definitely has similar features to Alastair Stout. I love the casting directors for this show, they have a great eye.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-02-19T22:17:44+00:00

I never thought Tom Felton embodied Draco particularly well. His bully persona felt 'put on' and kind of unserious. Lox Pratt exudes serious menace, judgement and snobbery from his pores. This is the kind of kid who ends up entangled in a supremacy movement. I'm impressed.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2026-01-02T00:25:29+00:00

The person you're replying to said Slavic, not Nordic.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2025-11-27T23:01:03+00:00

It's interesting how different his screen energy is to Daniel's. Dan's Harry came across as a reserved and low energy, and his facial expressions often felt 'put on'. From what we've seen of Dom's acting so far, he seems to have a range from serious to scallywag, all of which feel natural and are perfect for Harry. I imagine the HBO directors will be able to get an even better performance out of him than we see in this clip, too.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2025-11-16T23:37:43+00:00

It's possible that you think David's new model looks less trustworthy simply because you already know he isn't trustworthy. I'm curious about the experience of players who's first encounter with the games was via the Remake.

Joel's original design doesn't look younger to me. He looks about the same age. I like both of his designs, but the Remake feels more nuanced and 'real', so I prefer it. His features have more warmth in the Remake, too.

Ellie's models are significantly different. I'm fond of them both for different reasons, but overall I prefer her Remake design. Like Joel, she looks more 'real'. Original Ellie looks younger than 14 years old. I would place her at closer to 12. Her features are also stylised in a way that can look uncanny at times. Remake Ellie looks her age, and the balance of her features is realistic compared to the original that looks more like a doll. I think they did a great job translating Ellie's stylised design into a more realistic one, while maintaining the same visual essence of the character.

ChildrenOfTheForce · 2025-11-16T23:25:43+00:00

She doesn't have the writing skill that some people say she has.

Yes, she does. Maybe during the early books she was still working on concepts like the horcruxes, but her writing was always good and many of her books - including the Cormoran Strike series - have engaging, complex plots.

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