Harry Potter HBO teaser

[darkgaga 6,586]

46 minutes ago, Ziggy said:

So a distinct problem with this beyond supporting jk Rowling’s pockets, is having to stay so close to the aesthetic of the *films* not the books, creates an uncanny sort of effect at the actual differences. Besides all that, there’s so little charm or whimsy or magic in this. It feels actually very sad, like they aren’t even all that curious to inspire young kids to want to watch this—it’s for the stunted adults who can’t get enough—which is a depressing thing for these young actors who weren’t even alive when the last movies came out. To be subjected to being content fodder for self-repressed adults being targeted by hollow corporate executives.

Where is it the same? Kings cross is kings cross, cant change that. And all the Hogwarts rooms look more like the games than the movies. The entrance hall has trees in them now…

[darkgaga 6,586]

3 hours ago, lodylody said:

I'd just encourage that anyone who really wants to watch this series finds a way to watch it that doesn't financially support anti-trans hate groups and hate figures.

Another great thing to do is to not post anything about the series publicly online (Instagram stories, tweets, replies to tweets, etc.) so that the series is not promoted to more people (people who might watch it in a way that does support anti-trans hate groups).

So we should all cancel our HBO? They gain from the subscribers, not who is actually watching or not

[lodylody 1,788]

1 hour ago, darkgaga said:

So we should all cancel our HBO? They gain from the subscribers, not who is actually watching or not

Well, this is of course a more layered question.

Of course, voting with your wallet is what makes the loudest noise when it comes to corporations such as these. So if you want to try to make an impact and make a statement in solidarity with the trans community against a corporation who has decided to bankroll a known opponent of trans rights, cancelling your subscription would actually be the best thing to do.

As a prior subscriber, they won't get any signal from your subscription itself that the Harry Potter series was a good move. They will, however, still be receiving your financial support in bankrolling a known opponent of trans rights (who uses her income from the IP to support anti-trans hate groups). I wouldn't like that.

Furthermore, your argument that they don't gain from 'who is actually watching or not' is likely incorrect. Viewer data is analysed, and there are plenty of companies whose job it is to combine data points to build profiles of viewers, for the purposes of marketing. By providing your data points to HBO, you improve their ability to market the series to people who are likely to want to watch it, and improve their ability to 'gain from the subscribers'.

I would not knowingly give my money to an organisation that funds anti-trans hate groups, which HBO sadly now does, through their funding of that woman.

[lasagna 3,092]

if you are someone who actively engages with harry potter media in the year of 2026, then you are contributing to transphobia and you are anti trans whether you like it or not. plain and simple.

its well known and well documented that JK Rowling donates to anti trans organisations using her ever growing wealth from harry potter, so ignoring that and engaging with silly wizard show because you grew up reading the books and watching the movies is transphobic of you. you know your money is going to fund attacks against trans people and you should feel ashamed beyond belief for this. jk rowling has openly told us where her harry potter money goes, why would you knowingly contribute to that?

i expect straight people to engage in anti trans behaviour but any lgbtq+ person that engages and supports this nonsense needs to be called out and shamed for doing so. you are spineless and you should know better

[lasagna 3,092]

15 hours ago, KennyRichie said:

All your death wishes and harsh comments toward people who are simply interested in this are only making everyone more curious and even more willing to watch it. I also don’t think anyone should be attacked for what they choose to watch. We all care about trans issues and their importance, but turning against each other doesn’t help anyone. I’m just sharing my perspective 

nobody should be getting death threats. however, if you engage in harry potter content and finance or spread it then you actually do not care about trans people. you can't knowingly have your money going to anti trans organisations and then say you support trans people, that's not how it works.

Edited 5 hours ago by lasagna

[LGAte 508]

Very happy to say it actually does look kind of meh….doesnt add anything to it and somehow comes off boring. 
 

I was OBSESSED with Harry Potter as a kid. OBSESSED. I got on Mugglenet everyday and was made fun of for liking it so much. 
 

but now I have a very strange relationship with it that deeply saddens me. 
 

I will honestly say this show does not look particularly great. Literally very average. 

[Robo Ga 15,550]

now why they got Hagrid out here doing snow angels 

[elijahfan 27,120]

19 hours ago, Zombiecat said:

oh for sure

although the things they added in to the #6 movie that just didn't happen and don't even make sense, whilst missing out the most interesting parts of the book had me livid  

I found the 4th and 5th movies great in comparison, they used to be my favourites.. 6 was the only time after watching i was left disappointed lmao

I actually love movie #6  It's definitely not the best in terms of adaptation, but I thought it had a distinct style. The photography and music are really incredible in that one.

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,746]

13 hours ago, ALGAYDO said:

Not really. It’s not hard to illegally watch shows online. Why would anyone who supports trans people want even a single cent if theirs going towards that hag? 

I just want you to know that the following companies also help fund anti-trans activity:

Key Customers by Industry

Finance: JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Aon, Federal Bank

Retail/Manufacturing: Walmart, Toyota, Mazda, Costco

Healthcare/Services: Cerner (now part of Oracle), UnitedHealth Group, Aster DM Healthcare, DHL Supply Chain

Logistics: FedEx

Content: TikTok (USA)

Technology:

 Zoom, Nvidia, OpenAI, Cisco, Intel, eBay

 

They all use Oracle, which is run by Larry Ellison a nmega-donor to conservative causes. 

 

The following companies also help fund anti-trans activity via AWS, which supports Trump via Bezos:

Industry-Wide Adoption 

Technology & Internet: Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Zoom, and Facebook (Meta) all use AWS services.

Media & Entertainment: Disney, Comcast, HBO, and Warner Bros. use AWS for streaming content.

Retail & Consumer Goods: Walmart, Amazon, Nordstrom, and Kellogg’s manage vast inventory and website traffic with AWS.

Financial Services: JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and NASDAQ use AWS for security and analytics.

 

Globalization and the internet have essentially made boycotting effectively impossible on the scale you're looking at. Everything is so closely linked and overlap so much that our money will always find it's way into the alt-right and anti-trans pipelines. It doesn't hurt to "vote with your wallet" on passionate issues but it also exemplifies how shameful it is to wish bad lives on people who stream a show. At the end of the day, Warner Bros. is cutting Rowling huge checks whether her IP sells or not. Case in point is the greenlight for this show in the first place after the losses Warner took on Fantastic Beasts. It all cut her huge checks and the woman still makes $80 million a year after her trans comments. And at the end of the day, she's not even the one we need to be worried about most. 

 

[lodylody 1,788]

1 minute ago, AsleepOnTheCeiling said:

I just want you to know that the following companies also help fund anti-trans activity:

Key Customers by Industry

Finance: JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Aon, Federal Bank

Retail/Manufacturing: Walmart, Toyota, Mazda, Costco

Healthcare/Services: Cerner (now part of Oracle), UnitedHealth Group, Aster DM Healthcare, DHL Supply Chain

Logistics: FedEx

Content: TikTok (USA)

Technology:

 Zoom, Nvidia, OpenAI, Cisco, Intel, eBay

 

They all use Oracle, which is run by Larry Ellison a nmega-donor to conservative causes. 

 

The following companies also help fund anti-trans activity via AWS, which supports Trump via Bezos:

Industry-Wide Adoption 

Technology & Internet: Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Zoom, and Facebook (Meta) all use AWS services.

Media & Entertainment: Disney, Comcast, HBO, and Warner Bros. use AWS for streaming content.

Retail & Consumer Goods: Walmart, Amazon, Nordstrom, and Kellogg’s manage vast inventory and website traffic with AWS.

Financial Services: JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and NASDAQ use AWS for security and analytics.

 

Globalization and the internet have essentially made boycotting effectively impossible on the scale you're looking at. Everything is so closely linked and overlap so much that our money will always find it's way into the alt-right and anti-trans pipelines. It doesn't hurt to "vote with your wallet" on passionate issues but it also exemplifies how shameful it is to wish bad lives on people who stream a show. At the end of the day, Warner Bros. is cutting Rowling huge checks whether her IP sells or not. Case in point is the greenlight for this show in the first place after the losses Warner took on Fantastic Beasts. It all cut her huge checks and the woman still makes $80 million a year after her trans comments. And at the end of the day, she's not even the one we need to be worried about most.

 

Your list might be accurate but the conclusion you draw is deeply illogical.

You're saying that because a number of anti-trans-supporting corporations are deeply entrenched in modern society, loads of HBO subscribers cancelling their subscriptions wouldn't get them to cancel this shitshow?

It's not adding up.

[darkgaga 6,586]

By the way, saying that everyone who wants to see this and loves the series for what the series is, not the author, is automatically a transphobe, is just ignorant and mean. Not everything in life is just black and white

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,746]

4 minutes ago, lodylody said:

Your list might be accurate but the conclusion you draw is deeply illogical.

You're saying that because a number of anti-trans-supporting corporations are deeply entrenched in modern society, loads of HBO subscribers cancelling their subscriptions wouldn't get them to cancel this shitshow?

It's not adding up.

Do you think loads of HBO subscribers will be cancelling their subscription? And do you think that subscriptions would be the only metric HBO uses? It's naive to think that as well as think that HBO hinges the success of a $30 Billion franchise on the success of one show. I need y'all to understand that the HBO show isn't about being good or bringing in a lot of money by itself. It's a hope for Warner, but it's really only secondary. Any release of HP content is going to drive a surge in all other content in the franchise and all other products. Star Wars continues to release controversial (amongst fans) content that at times has trouble finding it's legs. But every time it releases something new, old merch and content sees a huge surge. From renewed marketing, nostalgia, etc. The HBO show doesn't really matter. 

[Ladle Ghoulash 38,469]

On 3/25/2026 at 4:50 PM, gagzus said:

Funnily enough the ONLY backlash from the fanbase has been about them having a black snape and a slightly tanned (even though she’s white still) Hermione.

British fans are horrid, as a British person the amount of racism we have is astounding but what’s worse is unlike America where it’s pretty black and white now of who is racist and who isn’t. British people act like racism is grey. Even our nicknames for cultural food or convenience stores is racist. But it’s accepted as being not by the population.

For example, people dont see the racism behind our current immigration views, where as in America they’re pretty black and white about their racist immigrant views.

The racial euphemisms for food lowkey shocked me even as an American. I was watching a YT livestream where the host, who’s from the Northeast US, mentioned going to the “packie” (a New England euphemisms for a “package store”) and a bunch of folks in the UK thought he used a slur against Pakistanis, which would have never even initially occurred to me as a racial epithet 😅

[Ladle Ghoulash 38,469]

14 minutes ago, darkgaga said:

By the way, saying that everyone who wants to see this and loves the series for what the series is, not the author, is automatically a transphobe, is just ignorant and mean. Not everything in life is just black and white

That’s right. We should be clocking HP fans for their crime: their lack of taste!