TV show reboot

[sunnyskywalker]

They haven't even finished with the Fantastic Beasts franchise, and already the books are getting a reboot, this time as a TV series. It will supposedly be "authentic to the original books." Whatever that means. JKR will be an executive producer, so maybe "authentic to what she intended to write or imagines she wrote."

I can't help but be morbidly curious. Will the Dursleys be blond? Will the reboot stick all the adults in robes instead of vaguely bohemian but mostly normal clothes? Will the Marauders generation look their ages instead of 20-30 years older? Will we get Dudley hiding in fear behind Vernon instead of eating cake, the full story of the prank, SPEW, the full set of Pensieve memories, Marietta's scarring, and Harry gleefully hexing Filch twice while his schoolmates look on and laugh? Will we get full-on flashbacks for some of the historical scenes? Will authenticity mean putting in the bits JKR totally meant to write but didn't, like the Slytherins triumphantly returning to fight? Will we get bonus material from the "ghost plots" that didn't make it into the books, like the backstory about Dean's father?

And, of course, will Harry have his mother's eyes for real this time? Since apparently that was important enough to yap about for seven whole books/eight movies...

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[sunnyskywalker]

Ugh, yes. It was already uncomfortable every time she disparaged a female character for being too big-boned or hairy to be "properly" feminine. (Not that you want to be too feminine, of course! That would also be bad!) As if women don't already hear enough about how their bodies aren't "correct" according to someone else's arbitrary standards. Now it's just skin-crawling.

Did she go that far? I'd heard her say she never specified that Hermione had to be white, so therefore she could be black--which sounds like taking credit for vagueness that wasn't actually intentional, so I'm not giving her any points for it. But it's strictly accurate that the books never said that Hermione was definitely 100% white Anglo. (Based on some of the descriptions, she'd be a fair-skinned black person if she is black, but that's fine. Lots of real people fit that description.) They could also go with one of the other popular Hermione fanons and make her Jewish, but based on how badly the later books handle the Nazi allegories, that would probably end up being an offensive train wreck.

Hopefully they will at least cast someone with naturally curly/frizzy hair. And tweak the Yule Ball scene so she cuts down on the frizz but doesn't straighten it, because we have fair too many fictional makeover scenes trying where characters have to straighten their curls to be considered pretty.