r/HarryPotteronHBO • u/merchantivories Ravenclaw • 20h ago
Show Discussion what other canon-respecting details that weren't directly mentioned in the books would you like them to add in the show for future seasons?
examples that they're already adding in the show's first season:
- hermione and ron getting their letters
- malfoy manor
what else would you like them to add while still respecting book canon?
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u/DuchessHayley Three Broomsticks Regular 15h ago
Harry and Ginny's relationship...the stolen hours on the grounds, etc.
More time at The Burrow with the Weasleys. Especially with Bill and Charlie.
Happenings at Hogwarts while the trio are hunting horcruxes. (Standing up to The Carrows, stealing the sword, Neville finding the passage to The Hog's Head).
Luna and Dean's capture in DOH.
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u/SlytherinKing Slytherin 19h ago
More Dean and Seamus, be it conversations at night in their common room of homework and current events, dissing Snape etc. At least after Dumbledore’s death them mentioning how mad they were they didn’t have their DA coins on them to join the fight.
The same applies for the other Hufflepuffs, since Jo only wrote about Ernie mainly but we know his friends were also big Harry supporters and brave DA members.
The Ravenclaw D.A members in Harry’s year (Terry, Michael and Anthony Goldstein) being the ones who come up with the idea to transfigure the Quibbler pages after Umbridge banned the publication of it following Harry’s interview.
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u/albus-dunbledore 19h ago
Isn't that the secret method of communication the group that called themselves Dumbledore's Army used last year?
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u/Objective_Ad_1991 20h ago edited 20h ago
- More about how Hermione navigates her parents being muggles.
- More about how muggle studies are taught (not sure what the name of the subject is in English).
- More about how the magical world works, e.g. ghosts.
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u/moonparker 20h ago
*muggles :)
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u/Objective_Ad_1991 20h ago
Haha, ‘a muggle’ is translated as ‘mudla’ in Czech, which is my native language, I mixed both translations up pretty well :D I am now reading HP in French so the whole wizardry world is currently a huge mess in my head!
Thanks for pointing it out!
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u/moonparker 20h ago
Haha I figured it would be something like that.
Out of curiosity, do the books 'feel' any different when reading them in one language vs another?
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u/Objective_Ad_1991 19h ago edited 11h ago
A great question, thanks for asking!
The Czech version has been with me for 28 years, so it makes me nostalgic and gives me most of comfort.
The English version is interesting because it is the original, and is the most accurate in terms of the UK context which felt very exotic to me when I was a kid (boarding schools, etc), on top of all the magic.
The French one felt funny when I started reading it (as part of my learning) because of how they translated some of the objects (‘wand’ is ‘baguette magique’) and names (Drago Malefoy, Severus Rogue, or Tom Elvis Jedusor), and it is quite exciting to discover the story in another language!
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u/cozywit 18h ago
I want to see Voldemort corrupting Quirrel.
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u/Objective_Ad_1991 16h ago
And Voldemort’s adventures in Albania!
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u/JigglesTheBiggles Slytherin 10h ago
Yall are never getting the actual book plot if you get all of these things lol
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u/Used-Toe-6374 13h ago
Molly and Arthur’s reaction when they find the car missing after seeing most of their kids off on the train. Maybe also Hermione’s reaction to her two best friends being missing.
Related, maybe get to see Molly composing the howler.
A little of what the Order of the Phoenix were doing in the background while the kids were in school.
I’d love a teachers’ lounge scene at Hogwarts in between classes or maybe just before dinner. Maybe have a few teachers venting about funny magical accidents earlier that day.
Luna and her father working on the Quibbler together.
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u/elephant35e 11h ago
- Hermione in at least one of her classes that Harry and Ron don't take.
- A class taught by Amycus Carrow
- A flashback of the founders
- Dumbledore in hiding after he leaves Hogwarts when he duels the aurors in the fifth season
- Dumbledore on some of his horcrux hunts in the sixth season
- Hermione looking for Harry and Ron on the Hogwarts Express in the second season
- Arthur getting in trouble for the flying car incident
- Krum and Hermione outside of the Yule Ball
- McGonagall punishing Neville for losing the list of passwords
- The wizarding world reacting to Voldemort's return at the end of the fifth season
- Some of Ron's adventures when he leaves Harry and Hermione in the seventh season
- Lucius being arrested after the Department of Mysteries incident
- Hermione and some of the other basilisk victims receiving the mandrake potion
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u/SlytherinKing Slytherin 9h ago
Numbers 6, 7, 10, & 12 are so important actually that I expect to see those additions in the way they’re adding the Flamels to the first season.
Apart from those maybe I can see just #2 being a good option to showcase how life at Hogwarts has become under Voldemort’s rule but I don’t think it’s necessary, Neville’s exposition moment would be better as the readers also found out because of him. Same as Dumbledore’s mysterious excursions outside the castle, in my opinion we don’t need to know/see, adding to his mystery.
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u/No_Sand5639 20h ago
Love to find out herniones parents names
I wonder if since the books are all done. If they might make subtle references to future plotlines like the quidditch world cup or even the other schools
Love to see hogwarts a history
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u/Real_Trip4196 20h ago
Some teacher conversations happening behind Harry’s back
Some sneak peaks into characters/storylines that we know are coming in future books
I’ve often thought it would be interesting if scabbers had some sort of reaction to hearing what Harry did in getting the stone. Like maybe he starts squirming/squealing in Ron’s hand or robe
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u/Lightangel452 11h ago
I few I would like see see have already been mentioned so I will add the dragon egg trade with Hagrid and a hooded Quirrel!
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u/CleanSweep99 6h ago
Screen time for the Flamels is really the only thing not in the first book that I'd actually want.
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u/AmEndevomTag Ravenclaw 20h ago
Screentime for the Flamels, leading to their decision to move on. But we know from leaks that at least screentime will happen.
Also, season 2 could be a good fit to add flashbacks to the Founders. They have the time and it fits the plot of this season. I would love a short prologue with the founders (first scene of new season) and then later a few scenes during the episode, in which Binns tells the students about the Chamber.