Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley. Image courtesy of Warner Brothers
JK Rowling swore that seven books and eight movies would be all we got from the Wizarding World.
Now we’re slowly getting more. It’s great for us! But could it ever run dry? I suppose it depends on who you ask. For instance, there’s an entire group of Harry Potter fans (ie: most of them), that want to see what happens with the Mauraders, or the time with the parents of the characters.
This could open an entire world of what happened before Voldemort took over up to the Wizarding World. We’d be following all of our original favorite characters’ parents and find out their hijinks and how everything came to be.
This could even go further and have a short series in the time of the War and what it was like, rather than simple flashbacks.
Then, the Fantastic Beasts movie opened more information. There is currently set to have five more movies after original, going into the past with Grindelwald. The Fantastic Beasts explores even before the parents’ generation and more into Tom Riddle and a younger Dumbledore.
And then, of course, there’s there’s the post-Harry Potter world that the Cursed Child opened to be explored.
So really, we’re way beyond 7 books and 8 movies. Which is great for us! But what if the well begins to run dry? Or worse, what if it gets…cheesy? Is it possible to have too much Harry Potter? While the majority of the fans would say they’re all for it, I worry a little.
Is there ever such a thing as too much? JK Rowling has gifted us with this world that has so much to explore, and no one would ever blame her for wanting to explore it. But to the cynical eye, it could look like she’s trying to run the well dry. Trying to make more of what should have been left alone to the original.
There’s nothing wrong with expanding what you made, personally. As long as you don’t do a reboot. PLEASE, no Harry Potter reboots, please!