Social media users share their thoughts on the new trailer for HBO’s upcoming and controversial Harry Potter series.
On September 2, 2026, HBO released a new trailer for its upcoming Harry Potter series. Several popular X accounts, including @DiscussingFilm, later reshared the trailer. The post was captioned with:
“The new trailer for the ‘HARRY POTTER’ series has been released. Releasing December 25 on HBO.”
At the time of writing, the post has garnered over 18 million views and 80,000 likes on the platform. As the trailer went viral, fans took to X to share their reactions to the upcoming series. They wrote:
“Genuinely the worst thing imaginable in every possible way. Not only is it in support of an incredibly transphobic person clearly a cashgrab but there’s very clearly zero artistic merit here. It’s just the movies again. What are we doing other than just trying to make a buck,” wrote X user @quinnthegm.
“A rare instance where I genuinely, wholeheartedly, without a smidge of irony, think I’m better than everyone who’s excited for this,” said @bartonovopolis on X.
“Even if JKR wasn’t mad this still looks virtually identical to the movies just with a different cast, like what’s the point?” commented X user @TharriesYT.
“The sets are identical. The adult actors are all doing impressions of who they’re replacing. The music is the same. It’s very clear that this is intended to replace the movies in order to further separate Rowling from the actors who disagree with her transphobic rhetoric,” stated @EXCELSIORSPEAKS on X.
“Many odious things to comment on here but I can’t get over how much it’s edited in a way to emphasize that you have seen this all before,” said X user @AlsikkanTV.
Harry Potter Star Nick Frost Talks About J.K. Rowling’s Views on Transgender People
Nick Frost plays the new Rubeus Hagrid in HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series. During an interview with The Observer, the English actor shared his thoughts on J.K. Rowling’s controversial views on transgender people. Frost said:
“She’s allowed her opinion and I’m allowed mine, they just don’t align in any way, shape or form.”
When asked whether the debate over supporting the series because of J.K. Rowling’s controversial comments about transgender people could affect the series, Frost responded:
“I don’t know. But maybe it shouldn’t blow over? We shouldn’t just hope it will go away, because it makes it easier. Maybe we should educate ourselves.”
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