Is there any canon information on the castle that became Hogwart's? Who built it? When was it built? What was it's purpose before it became a school? How was it acquired and converted into a school?
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Given the changes made to Ron and Hermione the movies should not be considered canon.
Voldemort.
As Dumbledore said don't fear his name as that only gives him power.
There's a heavy fan concensus that Benedict Cumberbatch should play Voldemort.
Hopefully the reboot will be truer to the characters of Harry, Hermione and Ron than the films were. Especially Ron.
Does the Harry Potter/Wizarding World lore have a single core canon that the fandom is in concensus with or did that ship sail a long time ago?
I'm rather new to the universe of Harry Potter having had my interest piqued by the upcoming announced HBO Max reboot of the franchise. As such I have some questions regarding Hogwart's and the education of wizards and witches.
What happens after you do your seven years at Hogwart's or other institution? Upon graduation are there institutions of higher education where one can pursue advanced degrees? Hogwart's seems to combine high school and college into a single educational experience. One enters Hogwart's at approximately 11-years-old and graduates around 18. They would appear to graduate with the equivalent of a Bachelor's degree.
Are there options for pursuing the equivalent of a Master's or even a Doctorate? Is there a magical equivalent of pre-med followed by attendance at a medical school? What about engineering? Training schools for military officers? Art schools? Seminaries and theological institutions? Essentially does the Wizarding World support all of the educational opportunities offered in the muggle world? Do they even have kindergartens and elementary schools?
Would a reboot consisting of a full TV series streaming on HBO Max do?
She is in the movies because the screenwriter, Steve Kloves, did everything he could to glorify Hermione at the expense of other characters particularly Ron.
While most of the characters in "Harry Potter" can be fit squarely in either the hero or villain category, among the fandom Snape fits in the grey category. A lot of fans see him as someone who did the right things for the wrong reasons. Suffice it to say that Snape is a complex character.
I'd like to know is if Snape was altered for the movies as badly as Ron and Hermoine were? Does whether fandom sees Snape as a hero or, at best, morally grey depend on whether we're discussing book Snape or movie Snape?
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The big question now is with HBO Max planning a Harry Potter TV series, which version of the characters are they going to use? Will they go with how Rowling originally wrote them or will they go with the versions Kloves created for the films? If it's the latter then Ron fans may as well write it off as not to be bothered with.
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I don't think he was a problem for Fantastic Beasts as he expressed no obvious biases on that project and none were apparently visible. I know little about the Wizarding World beyond what I occasionally scoop in from the internet and Harry Potter fandom has other issues with Fantastic Beasts.
Kloves problem with the Harry Potter series is that he didn't write screenplays for Rowling's books. He wrote his own fanfiction of Rowling's books. He changed the story and characters Rowling created into a version that met his needs rather than the needs of the fans of Harry Potter. After what he did in the first film he should never have been allowed to write a second.
What I want to know is how he got away with it. Supposedly Rowling collaborated with him every step of the way as well as contractually having final say over everything from casting, set designs and dialogue. She was supposedly there to keep the films true to her vision. Instead she let him butcher two of her three main characters and did nothing to stop him.
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That's just it. This is a movie problem which makes it a screenwriter problem. Apparently Rowling wrote these characters as a balanced trio with each bringing their own strengths and weaknesses to the table. As such in the books they were practically unstoppable when they acted together. By the time Kloves got done with them he had made Harry and Hermione Hogwart's power couple while he was handing Ron his hat and showing him the door.
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The changes are definitely attributable to Kloves because he was the screenwriter. The movie versions of Harry Potter are his creations adapted from Rowling's books. He admitted in an interview with Rowling that Hermione was his favorite character.
This video opens with Kloves gushing over Hermione and then goes on to demonstrate how Kloves took all of Ron's strengths and gave them to Hermione while foisting Hermione's flaws onto Ron. He then went on to take out nearly every scene of Ron being strong, admirable and the character he apparently was in the books and then give those scenes to someone else. He even added additional scenes and dialogue not in the books to glorify Hermione even more while vilifying Ron.
A lot of fans of the Harry Potter books claim Ron to be their favorite character. I was curious upon learning all of this how the Ron Weasley fans felt about how Kloves treated him in the films.
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Has Steve Kloves, screenwriter for seven of the eight Harry Potter films, ever been called out on the changes he made to the characters of Ron and Hermione? I'm not really into fantasy but in related research I came across numerous articles on the differences between Ron and Hermione in the movies as opposed to them in the books.
Given how egregious these changes were (elevating Hermione to a near goddess while Ron was reduced to comic relief and dead weight) I would have thought that at least the fans of the books and of Ron in particular would have something to say about how Steve Kloves handled these characters.