It seems that the audience’s interest has already waned harry potter HBO series reboot. One of the main concerns highlighted by critics is that the reboot feels largely the same and, therefore, predictable. Yep, they made Snape Black so I guess ten points for that? But whether this adds depth is a matter of debate.
One critic, who goes by @walton_wisdom on Instagram, pointed out everything problematic in choosing Snape out of all the characters for this change.
“The more I think about the casting decision to make Snape black in the new harry potter The series, the more I realize there’s no way they thought of this. Like, let’s think about some of the scenes that happened in the movies involving Snape,” Walton begins.
“In the fifth film, order of the PhoenixHarry remembers his father threatening Snape and literally hanging him from a tree. So if they want to make it, they have to hang a black man from a tree,” he wrote in the video.
“In the first film, Sorcerer’s StoneHarry believes that Snape is trying to steal the Sorcerer’s Stone for himself. He’s basically like the only black person in the series, at least part of the main cast. So Harry will think the only black guy is trying to steal something.”
“In the third film, prisoner of azkabanThey go into this closet and they’re basically facing their biggest fear. And Neville Longbottom’s biggest fear is Snape. So now his biggest fear would be a big black man. Her biggest fear would be being the only black boy in school.”
His argument is weighty in many ways. Changing that dynamic without adjusting the story can lead to unexpected meanings. The concern is not with the representation itself, but with whether it is being handled with sufficient consideration.
Another concern is predictability. Changing a character’s ethnicity is not enough to make a story new or worth watching. This was my concern when the little Mermaid Was released in 2023. I knew what to expect and it lost me right there. The cinematography also didn’t do it justice, nor did Halle Bailey’s acting help connect with it – or maybe that’s just me – but the ratings don’t seem to indicate otherwise.
Despite a strong debut, the film received mixed reviews and grossed approximately $569 million worldwide – solid, but very low in relation to its huge budget and Disney’s usual remake standards.
If only Hollywood could give us something like something new harmfulwhich challenged the age-old view that fairies were simply bad, could have been shown in a better way the little Mermaid and this harry potter Reboot.
Now, on the contrary, AI Remix harry potter Arousing more interest online. Shortly after the trailer arrived for the upcoming harry potter In a series last weekend, chaotic, remix-driven AI content flooded the Internet, and now, ironically, it’s generating more excitement because it’s novel, absurd, and unrestricted.
is my personal favorite”harry potter But the AI makes it drip.” In it, the new Ron enters the cabin he shares with a young Harry and recognizes him by rumor. However, the drippy remake makes the exchange instantly charming with Gen-Z-coded humor – unlike traditional reboots that merely modernized the era but kept everything else the same.
“are you really harry potterMy ji?” AI-manipulated Ron asks young Harry. “Type shit,” Harry replies, while the other young wizards nod in agreement.
Ron moves in for a fist bump, but this version of Harry is all business, focused on getting to the School of Drip by way of the Maybach Express, driven by the highly caffeinated but effortlessly cool Dobby.
In the last few days I have another remake which shows Harry, Ron and Hermione entering the Drip School, greeted by Dumbledore and a Black Snape.
“Is that Harry Potter?” yells Dumbledore, dressed in LV-printed robes and holding a golden pistol in front of him. “They say you’re the guy who dribbled. Don’t you, Brosky?”
“Such nonsense, sir!” Harry replies, Ron and Hermione echoing him.
“Really type nonsense!” Dumbledore announced before Snape appeared. Senior magicians greet each other with exaggerated, stylized handshakes – straight out of Gen-Z internet culture.
The houses are no less “dripping”, and even the Sorting Hat has attitude, although this has not come to fruition yet as Dobby is still running it.
“We need a full-length movie of this,” says not only me but also another fan in the comments.
“Already better than the HBO reboot,” another person wrote.
Some praised the witty details hidden in the background, such as a sorting hat wearing a gold necklace that reads, “No Caps.” One viewer pointed to Harry’s necklace, which read “0 Parentz.”
“Darkness,” he said.
These remixes aren’t limited to dripping aesthetics. Other AI versions pursue completely different angles, like Harry being famous not for his scar, but for Baleniaga.
“Don’t you ever wonder where your mom and dad get their clothes? A fashion-literate Hagrid asks. “You’re Baleniaga, Harry.”
The train scene reappears, reworked. “So, is it true? That you actually have… Balenciaga?” asks a smooth-looking Ron, who is later made fun of by Draco for wearing H&M in the remix.
We also get a dramatic reveal of “Balenciaga.” At this point, I’m losing my mind.
There is so much more. The second version begins with: “POV: Hagrid actually runs a trap house outside the campus.”
“You’re telling me that Hagrid’s real name is Bagrid? He has a mansion I don’t know about? And that little cottage is just a trap house?” Harry asks Snape during a walk in the Forbidden Forest.
“Welcome to my crib,” a bare-chested Bagrid, wearing sunglasses, a fur coat and a heavy gold chain, says to the two.
“Holy s*** Baggrid! How much of a f****** cheese are you? I didn’t know you had a f****** mansion!” Harry screams, steps inside and later finds Bagrid snorting what appears to be cocaine. Other things also come out equally wildly.
There are countless other spins: athletics-themed versions, barn-core edits, an Istanbul version, Snap’s rap-video reinterpretation, and more.
While the HBO reboot is set to premiere on Christmas Day, December 25, 2026, I’m only waiting for more harry potter AI Remake. Until then, there we have it.
Allow me to quote the reimagined Dumbledore as parting words.
“The fashion world is a mirror that only reflects what it wants to see, Harry. It criticizes what fits its frame but belonging…belonging is not something they can give or take. It’s something you claim.”
