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HBO Releases New Harry Potter Trailer, Fans Say It “Isn’t the Same”

From N1 Serbia · () Serbian

Translated from Serbian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • HBO released the first trailer for its new Harry Potter series, featuring Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton and Alastair Stout as Harry, Hermione and Ron.
  • Fans on X reacted negatively to the absence of the original film cast and compared the new footage with the movies.
  • The first season will adapt Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, with more room for material omitted from the 2001 film.

For some Harry Potter fans, the biggest challenge facing HBO’s new adaptation is not Hogwarts’ updated look. It is seeing entirely new actors take over characters played by the original film cast.

Harry Potter without the original cast simply isn’t the same.

· Unnamed viewerA reaction on X criticizing the new cast.

The first trailer offers a detailed look at Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley. It also introduces established actors in familiar roles, including John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Professor McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape and Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid.

The trailer shows Harry growing up with the Dursleys, as well as new glimpses of Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape. Hogwarts and other recognizable elements of the story also appear. The series seems set to spend more time on book material that the 2001 film adaptation left out, including scenes involving the Weasley family.

I grew up with Harry Potter and it’s hard for me to accept new faces in the same story.

· Unnamed viewerA fan explained the difficulty of accepting new actors in the adaptation.

Reactions on X have been divided, but many viewers have compared the footage with the original films and said they were unimpressed. One viewer wrote, “Harry Potter without the original cast simply isn’t the same.” Another said, “I grew up with Harry Potter and it’s hard for me to accept new faces in the same story.”

It’s better than the last trailer, but... no, it doesn’t look nearly as good as the films.

· Unnamed userA viewer compared the new trailer unfavorably with the original movies.

Other fans questioned why the story needed to be filmed again and suggested a spin-off featuring surviving members of the original cast instead. The first season will be based on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and is expected to provide a much longer adaptation of the book.

Why not make a spin-off series with the surviving actors from the original cast? Haven’t we already seen how this story unfolds?

· Unnamed fanA fan questioned the need to remake the original story.
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Originally published by N1 Serbia in Serbian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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