I remind you all to never support J. K. Rowling’s works. If you do, you actively fund the oppresion of trans people in the UK.
If you like the games or movies as I once did and want to experience them again, then simply buy them second hand or, better, pirate them.
Or better yet don’t play the games or read the books at all. Engaging with the franchise only helps keep it alive. There should be lots of other things to engage in if you absolutely have to satisfy (disappoint) your sense of childhood nostalgia.
They made Malfoy a girl? I thought JK hated trans people… Or is this her way of mocking us, by making the bully kid trans?
no some random person made a funny fan image of Malfoy as a girl, and everyone is losing their minds over it and drumming it up into a huge moral controversy, because that’s what they like to do.
It’s not official, it’s fan-art
For those too lazy to fact check, the role will be played by Lox Prat, a 14-year-old male actor. This meme is referring to fan fiction.
Specifically fan art. This is the original one from 2026-09-22 start started the trend.
I am not endorsing the creator, only sharing the image for context.
I‘m sure Harry can totally fix her
Thank you. I am lazy.
Ignoring the Rowling assholery, wasn’t the point of the show to be closer to the books?
Mind you, I’m fine with significant reframing of characters in that way, it just runs contrary to making a show that’s always going to be compared unfavorably to the movies, if they aren’t going to serve the book experience. Like, what’s the point? Hoping nostalgia will bring viewers that also happen to be fan fic fans and aren’t going to knee jerk whine about changing genders and races?
Even if I had been interested in retreading the same ground this soon, this seems really stupid.
But you could print more money. To platform more bigots.
retreading the same ground this soon
Nobody asked, but the first movie came out in 2001, which was 25 years ago. The time between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace was 16 years. Indiana Jones 4 was 19 years after The Last Crusade. Gladiator II was 24 years after Gladiator, and people were asking why bother after such a long time. “Oh, but the most recent one came out way later than 2001!” Yep. 2011. 15 years ago. It’s older than Gangnam Style.
I’m not that interested in this new Potter show, but let’s not pretend that the movies just came out a couple years ago. Time is just speeding by. You didn’t have back pain when you first saw quidditch on the big screen, but you do now.
The difference is that those were sequels, whereas this is a remake. Would you want The Lord of the Rings remade? It’s been about the same amount of time. Maybe that’s a bad example though because they’re trying to milk that franchise too and fans are pretty meh on it.
Good point.
Honestly I don’t want anything remade. It was made, and it was good enough. Time to move on. It reminds me of an interview with Danny Elfman, some young guy was trying to be flattering by asking “do you plan on releasing a remaster of that album?” In his head he was asking “are you gonna cash in on your lasting popularity?” But instead the temperature in the room dropped ten degrees in an instant and Elfman responded, “what wrong with the master?” Wish I could remember what interview that was.
Fan or not, you can see his point, though. Any remake immediately puts the original on trial, and must be able to make the case for itself. We don’t need generational remakes of every mythos with any cultural efficacy, any more than a good album needs a remaster.
I generally agree but there is a counterpoint that could be regarded, too: younger generations have different consumption habits than their predecessors and an effort to make art accessible to a new audience is IMHO a commendable effort.
Now, that is not an argument for the new HP show (I’d love to see that franchise go to ruins and the abyss of irrelevance together with its awful creator), just a general thought I have when talking about remakes, continuation, new adaptation etc.Progressing technology and changing habits impact different media differently, and there is a general spectrum from books (or written storytelling, generally least affected) to video games (generally most affected). Especially the latter has gone through enormous changes over the last three decades alone and I often wish there were more actual remakes of older games I never got to play but really don’t feel like playing now because really outdated graphics and awkward controls are somewhat repelling.
And for movies and TV you can see a shift, too. I don’t think The Lord of the Rings would have been made today like it was in the early 2000s and some movies (often adapting other media, but that’s a different discussion) are already readapted into a more serialised storytelling for streaming instead of cinematic movies (e.g. Snowpiercer or Percy Jackson) while Disney is producing life action remakes of their animated catalogue.That does not mean there is anything wrong with the source material, it just means a story is made accessible for a wider audience. Is the motivation for that a capitalism driven greed for money? Yes it is. Would these adaptations still happen in a world where artists would not be objected to monetary pressure? I do think so. Maybe not to the extend we see in our world, but maybe just with a different focus.
For sure that can make sense, but when tastes have changed enough to warrant a remake, I could just as easily file that under “making a case for itself”. Just like how history books have to be constantly rewritten not just to incorporate new findings, but to continually be the translation layer between how people back then understood things and how contemporary readers understand the world. History books are not a mere tome of facts, but a deliberately crafted lens to account for past fuzziness and present distortions. In the same way, I can see last year’s Frankenstein film as a fresh and valuable take on the old story. Remakes aren’t inherently bad, but like I said, they do put prior installations on trial. That can be a good thing!
Lmmfao.
I was a nurse’s assistant. I’ve had back pain since the mid nineties
Time is just speeding by. You didn’t have back pain when you first saw quidditch on the big screen, but you do now.
I’m not ready for this truth.
They just want to create romantic tension between Harry and Draco but they’re too cowardly to make it gay
The real gay tension is between Dumbledore and Hagrid
I totally get that sometimes you want to reinterpret stuff, I don’t really get why you would want to do it with perhaps the most iconic movie series of all time, with actors who became synonymous with their characters…
I think I’m not the only one who looks at this like it’s fan fiction. In they very best case I will see it as very good fan fiction. Fingers crossed, but I feel sorry for the actors and actresses already. I think there is a very high chance this will go very badly for at least some of them (actually kind of did so already)
Yes, it’s literally fan fiction. This meme is referring to a genderbent Malfoy fan art made in September.
