Summary

The biggest hurdle HBO’s new Harry Potter show has is outdoing the original Harry Potter movies, given how beloved they’ve been for the last 20 years. It’s obviously also a challenge adapting JK Rowling’s classic fantasy book series, but there was so much left out of or changed in the movies that it feels like the loudest comparisons will be to the first on-screen adaptations.

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