![]() This clearly tells readers that under the effects of the potion you take on both the vision and voice of the person you've become. Then he realized that his glasses were clouding his eyes because Goyle obviously didn't need them - he took them off and called, 'Are you two okay?' Goyle's low rasp of a voice issued from his mouth." When Ron and Harry use Polyjuice Potion to transform into Crabbe and Goyle in the second book, Harry's thoughts read, ". Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.It's unclear whether the potion changes people's voices. “ Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts” streams on HBO Max January 1. Just don’t expect anything passing for growth. If you’re a “Harry Potter” superfan, you’ll probably find returning to Hogwarts and seeing your favorite characters reunited pleasant enough. I wasn’t convinced a time or two that old interviews weren’t just reused. The “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Reunion Special” is essentially a long bonus feature you’d probably find on a DVD or Blu-ray box set. ![]() Instead, we get copious clips of the producer giving us a film school analysis of what subtext in certain scenes is meant to convey or how adolescence is shaped through these movies. ![]() There’s such a desire to focus on the rose-colored glasses elements that not even Robert Pattinson’s first feature film role being in “The Goblet of Fire” is discussed. It doesn’t matter that those same fans who harassed Leung are the ones so often cited by the assembled cast as being vital to the series, considered some of the “kindest” people out there. So it doesn’t matter that Rowling is slapped into the special in some badly Photoshopped moments that could easily be lifted out depending on how people react online. The goal of the special is to invoke warm fuzzies, and those creating it understand that the ones watching will be superfans who eat up everything Harry Potter. Why she wanted to leave is never explained - though most people who remember that time know Watson was one of several pre-teen girls to experience a “countdown to 18.” Add to that Radcliffe and Grint saying they knew there was a distinction in how they were treated versus Watson - though what that distinction was, again, is unclear - and there could easily have been a discussion about growing up as a woman, as a minority, and making a beloved series like this. In one of the more genuine moments, Emma Watson discusses how she almost left the series after the third feature. Take the reference to Leung, for example. It’s been 20 years and the lack of any desire to introspectively look at the good and, yes, the bad the series has created feels like a lazy way to cash in on nostalgia. Towards the end, Emma Watson refers to Katie Leung, who played Harry Potter’s paramour Cho Chang, as a remarkable activist, yet Leung is only present in footage from the films, and there’s absolutely no discussion of the racism she experienced while making the films. ![]() Michael Gambon, who played Dumbledore for six of the eight films, isn’t even included in stock interviews for reasons that feel weird. Other performers, like Lewis, Tom Felton, and Bonnie Wright are just individual talking heads, which only enhances the feeling that these are leftover interviews saved up for a moment like this. Here, whether because of COVID or just individual schedules, we get more of a piecemeal reunion where actors are made to seem like they’re together more often than they are.ĭaniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson are together the most, but more often we get Radcliffe, Grint, or Watson quasi-interviewing other important members of the franchise, like director Chris Columbus. The “Friends” reunion had the core six back together again. There are no criticisms that can be lobbed at this series, because everything has been stage-managed to prohibit that. This is one of the main incongruities that’s immediately apparent about the special: scripted moments passed off as pure authenticity. Various invitations to come to this reunion are magically presented and we’re off to totally not planned moments where the cast is reunited for big hugs and bright smiles. Emma Watson is casually perusing a second-hand book shop, Matthew Lewis is talking to a cab driver. The tone is set from the first minute, when a select few cast members are “discovered” just hanging around random places that aren’t at all a set. The Best Romance Movies of the 21st Century, from 'High Fidelity' to 'Carol' Steven Spielberg Has No Regrets Turning Down 'Harry Potter' Franchise to Raise His Kids 'Love & Death' Trailer: Elizabeth Olsen Transforms into Candy Montgomery for HBO Max
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