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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[chantaldormand]

At this point, I'm not sure even JKR knows which of her tweets/comments during interviews contain BS she came up on the spot and which contain nuggets of truth. So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if during this show Jo pulled the classical soap opera move of "Hermione was adopted by Grangers and in reality is secretly child of Weasleys' squib accountant cousin". Who may or may not be time-travelling Yeti pretending to be squib after fleeing Atlantis. But we won't learn until season 15 when writers will actively dig through JKR's Twitter feed to find some semi-decayed material for a filler episode.

[sunnyskywalker]

Oh, no, not the Weasley cousin. Surely Hermione is the illegitimate child of James Potter,* thus shutting down the Harmonians once and for all! Because she probably still cares about that. And underestimates the internet.

*But conceived before he started dating Lily due to time-travel shenanigans which may or may not have involved an Atlantean Yeti.

ETA: I forgot that she actually mentioned on Pottermore at some point that one of her early notions was to have the Grangers somehow find baby Harry and take him in. So he and Hermione would have been foster siblings.

[nx74defiant]

not sure even JKR knows which of her tweets/comments during interviews contain BS she came up on the spot and which contain nuggets of truth

I really doubt she knows or more importantly cares.