Harry Potter Hbo Tv Series Trailer Breakdown: 5 Reveals You Missed

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The first trailer for HBO Max's "Harry Potter" TV show has dropped, and while a batch of fans recovered it underwhelming (and galore much intend to boycott nan bid due to writer J.K. Rowling's involvement), it's still judge to beryllium scrutinized frame-by-frame. One item that die-hard fans will prime up connected correct distant is that nan first play of nan TV show is officially sticking pinch its root material's original title of "Harry Potter and nan Philosopher's Stone." This sets it isolated from nan first-ever "Harry Potter" movie, whose title was localized successful nan United States arsenic "Harry Potter and nan Sorcerer's Stone" (although it was still titled "Philosopher's Stone" successful overmuch of nan world).

Otherwise, this TV show looks to beryllium hewing reasonably intimately to nan wide artistic and costume designs antecedently established by nan "Harry Potter" movies and continued successful the caller video crippled "Hogwarts Legacy." After all, location are already taxable parkland attractions based connected these aesthetics, not to mention an atrocious batch of merchandise, truthful nan TV bid couldn't shingle things up too much.

This first teaser trailer for "Harry Potter and nan Philosopher's Stone" focuses connected laying retired nan basal set-up and introducing nan biggest characters, including nan young trio of Harry (Dominic McLaughlin), Ron (Alastair Stout), and Hermione (Arabella Stanton). However, a person look reveals different cardinal characters and immoderate caller creation choices.

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Harry Potter's first travel aboard nan Hogwarts Express besides marks his first brushwood pinch nan colorful world of magical junk food. Wizarding World candy isn't truthful overmuch "better" than mortal candy arsenic it is "more lawsuit-worthy," but it does adhd immoderate excitement to nan process of snacking. 

Acid Pops, for example, are truthful sour that they tin pain a spread successful your tongue. (If you were calved a Muggle, you tin execute nan aforesaid effect by eating a ample magnitude of Sour Patch Kids.) There are Cockroach Clusters, which are made retired of cockroaches. And past location are Chocolate Frogs (perhaps inspired by nan British schoolground favourite and unofficial ostentation tracker, Freddos), which travel pinch a free trading paper but person a inclination to hop distant while you're distracted by said card.

Shots of Harry and Ron connected nan Hogwarts Express show them surrounded by piles of saccharine treats, including what looks for illustration packets of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans (they mightiness sensation for illustration strawberry aliases they mightiness sensation for illustration ass!) and what tin only beryllium a Pumpkin Pasty. While Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans person recovered occurrence arsenic real-world tie-in merch, Pumpkin Pasties person yet to beryllium put connected nan marketplace successful nan non-wizarding world, truthful nan show beautiful overmuch had free reign erstwhile it came to designing them.

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The aged Hollywood adage "never activity pinch children aliases animals" is reliable to abide by successful nan lawsuit of nan "Harry Potter" franchise, which features an abundance of both. One animal that accompanies Harry passim his schoolhouse profession is Hedwig, a snowy owl fixed to him arsenic a day coming by Hogwarts groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid (Robby Coltrane). Given nan complexities of having an owl connected surface (either existent aliases CGI), and fixed that Hedwig spends astir of her clip successful Hogwarts' owlery, it's apt that we won't really spot overmuch of her successful nan show. 

One spot wherever Hedwig and Harry decidedly do stock nan screen, however, is during Harry's first sojourn to Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters. In nan book, this infinitesimal plays retired for illustration a accent dream type of dealing pinch British nationalist transport. Not only is location nary motion for Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters (turn retired you person to tally straight into a random ceramic wall), but Harry has to unreserved astir King's Cross Station looking for it while pushing a trolley loaded up pinch each of his luggage for nan schoolhouse twelvemonth and an owl successful a cage.

The teaser trailer for "Harry Potter and nan Philosopher's Stone" includes this scene, giving america our first look astatine nan TV show's type of Hedwig. Though, fixed that she's being pushed on astatine precocious velocity by a mini child, let's dream this peculiar owl was CGI.

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While nan "Harry Potter" books described nan Hogwarts schoolhouse azygous arsenic plain achromatic robes and a plain pointed achromatic chapeau for day-to-day wear, nan movies brought the wardrobe for witches and wizards person to a accepted British schoolhouse uniform. Students do deterioration achromatic robes, but they're adorned pinch nan schoolhouse logo and worn complete a shirt-and-tie combo. The hats were tried once, successful "Harry Potter and nan Sorcerer's Stone," but ne'er appeared again — astir apt because nan brimless creation made them look for illustration dunce caps. 

It appears nan hats person been ditched wholly for this TV show, though "Harry Potter and nan Philosopher's Stone" has stuck pinch nan standard-school-uniform-plus-robes creation that's now a halfway portion of nan brand. ("Hogwarts Legacy" utilized it arsenic well.) One notable variety is nan Hogwarts crest, which has been streamlined from its analyzable creation featuring nan 4 location animals and nan schoolhouse motto into a elemental "H" pinch character roots increasing from nan bottommost and branches increasing from nan top.

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With truthful galore students milling astir successful nan teaser trailer, it's easy to miss this first look astatine Neville Longbottom (Rory Wilmot), seen supra successful nan 1 people wherever he really excels: Herbology. Canonically, Neville moreover grows up to go Hogwarts' Herbology professor. Unfortunately he's notoriously incompetent astatine beautiful overmuch each different schoolhouse subject, which makes him a target for bullies for illustration Draco Malfoy (Lox Pratt).

Despite his scholastic struggles and debased self-esteem, Neville ends up revealing hidden depths of bravery successful nan first "Harry Potter" book and goes connected to defy his underdog position passim nan remainder of nan franchise. When nan communicative originates to delve into nan prophecies surrounding Harry and Voldemort (a domiciled whose casting has yet to beryllium announced for nan TV show), Neville is revealed to person a astonishing relationship to nan fateful nighttime that Harry's parents were murdered.

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If there's 1 facet of nan "Harry Potter" books that nan movies grounded to afloat capture, it's nan hype surrounding Harry's top-of-the-line Quidditch broomsticks. In nan first book, he's mysteriously talented a Nimbus 2000, which is later superseded by nan moreover flashier Firebolt. On screen, though, it's rather difficult to make a broomstick look sleek and cool while still keeping it fundamentally ... broomsticky.

"Harry Potter and nan Philosopher's Stone" is giving it a shot, however. In nan teaser trailer, Harry is seen carrying a Quidditch broomstick that looks for illustration 2 level broom-heads stuck together and topped by a smaller, information broom-head. It's difficult to opportunity whether this looks immoderate much for illustration elite tier sports instrumentality than nan broomsticks successful nan movies. Adding much bristles to nan equation, if anything, only highlights nan broomstickiness of nan broomstick. But if nan bid makes it to play 3, I benignant of dream nan Firebolt ends up being conscionable 5 broomsticks stuck together.

HBO's "Harry Potter and nan Philosopher's Stone" will premiere astir Christmas 2026.