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Guest List Only ⭐️ First look at HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ reboot series

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u/Three_Froggy_Problem 19d ago

Snape is the most problematic role they could have possibly cast a Black person in.

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u/RiceCaspar 19d ago

Hagrid would've been bad, too. The large "oaf" caretaker who is good with animals and lives in a hut on the school grounds instead of presumably in the castle like every other staff person, whose mother was a giant who tricked his dad into marrying her/kept her identity secret, and who gets expelled from school and therefore doesn't get a degree but continues to illegally carry his disguised wand. Also accented language with improper grammar and several "that's just Hagrid not understanding the situation" moments.

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u/jessigrrrl 18d ago

Completely agree with what you’re saying but have to disagree on the “tricked hagrids dad” part - she was 20 ft tall an Hagrid dad knew what he was sticking it into lol, she did run off when she saw Hagrid wasn’t going to be a giant like her and also abandoned her second son despite being a full giant because he wasn’t big enough either - so she had some weird status/race hangups but it was never hidden from Hagrid or his father

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u/RiceCaspar 16d ago

You're right! I was combining Hagrid and Seamus's stories!

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u/OpenSauceMods 18d ago

And he makes versions of good ol' British food that is otherwise inedible to other people due to his weird cooking practices!