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It remains to be seen just how much it strays from the Harry Potter movies, but there are early signs of some key upgrades. For instance, we’re getting more of Harry’s life with the Dursleys, which looks like an even more horrible experience for him than in the films. But the improvements also continue into the Wizarding World, because the glimpses we get of Hogwarts, and school life there, also promise to be greater than what the movies managed.
Harry Potter’s Remake Will Have More Hogwarts Scenes Than the Movies
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry should, in effect, be like a character itself. It’s an intrinsic part of the stories, but while the movies were obviously set there, they didn’t really show us as much of it as the books. Part of this is simply because of runtime constraints, but the films, particularly as the saga went on and they became more mature, left behind a lot of the slice-of-Hogwarts-life elements that are among the joys of reading the books. There were so many plot elements to include that it understandably didn’t find room for a lot of this, but it is crucial to the characters and world.
The TV show certainly seems to understand this, even from comparing the glimpses of what’s in Season 1 to The Philosopher’s Stone movie. There are scenes of Harry and Ron running around Hogwarts, toasting marshmallows over the fire in the Gryffindor common room (something that is lifted directly from a small moment on the page), having a snowball fight, and sitting (or perhaps sleeping) through a History of Magic class taught by Professor Binns, who was omitted from the movies. Other confirmed additions include the Hufflepuff vs. Gryffindor Quidditch match, with Professor Snape as the referee, and the inclusion of Peeves the Poltergeist (though no casting has been announced yet and we haven’t seen him so far).
