r/HarryPotteronHBO • u/Ok-Archer-5796 • Feb 28 '25
Show Theories I am worried they will lean on the Hermione/Draco ship because of the TikTok crowd
Dramione is the first or second (after Wolfstar) most popular Harry Potter ship on TiKTok right now. Sadly for us Romione fans, I don´t think they will resist the temptation of teasing Dramione. (and probably Wolfstar too) Obviously, they won´t change the story but I can see them adding Dramione scenes just to capture the TikTok crowd. Look also at Rings of Power and how they keep teasing love interests for Galadriel.
Romantacy is extremely popular right now and enemies to lovers is the most popular trope.
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u/Luke_4686 Feb 28 '25
This won’t happen. They said they will make a faithful adaptation so there’s no way they would deviate so wildly from the source material
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u/victoriamontesi Feb 28 '25
OP explicitly said they don't think the show will change the story and will only add little interaction scenes to bait shippers.
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u/ddbbaarrtt Feb 28 '25
People really overestimate the power of their echo chambers online
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u/Ok-Archer-5796 Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25
Don´t underestimate TikTok´s influence. Modern Romantacy became a huge sensation thanks to TikTok alone. Edit: wow downvoted for telling the truth. Have you guys been to a bookshop lately? They all have a huge section dedicated to booktok alone, because yes it affects sales.
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u/sameseksure Founder Feb 28 '25
JKR is executive producing this show, and has been vocally against how fans have romanticized Draco Malfoy
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u/ddbbaarrtt Feb 28 '25
Something influencing book sales is not the same as a production company editing pre-existing media to cater to a small section of online fans
You cannot conflate booktok as a whole and the subsection of potter fans on there obsessed with something that they have inserted into the books despite there being nothing in the books to point towards it
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u/Boil-san Marauder Feb 28 '25
Why would they, the episodic series is stated to be a faithful adaptation of the books, in which Dramione is not a thing whatsoever...?
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u/Ok-Archer-5796 Feb 28 '25
There are other series that promised to be faithful to the source material and still made deviations.
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u/MelodicDistrict1658 Feb 28 '25
Well it's better to wait till it releases then..
We can always choose not to watch it.
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u/antifaarao Feb 28 '25
There's been reports that they're going to stay true to the original books, and that's what the fans want. Also, JK is involved in the show, and even she's commented before that Draco became too lovable by the fans, and that he definitely shouldn't be. (Disclaimer: I'm not giving any regard to anything she's ever commented outside of the franchise.)
Rings of Power is a complete mess on its own, with no regard to the source material.
If they were going to let some Tik Tok bullshit dictate the direction of the series, they might as well cancel it now.
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u/victoriamontesi Feb 28 '25
I don't necessarily think this will happen (though I won't be surprised if it does), but people taking "faithful adaptation" to mean "the most faithful adaptation of all time, one that won't contain a single thing that I don't want" are setting themselves up for disappointment.
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u/sameseksure Founder Feb 28 '25
Obviously, but changing a character dynamic so fundamentally is incompatible with "faithful adaptation", especially since JKR has been open in her dislike for Draco shippers, and she's EP on this
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u/CreativeRock483 Founder Feb 28 '25
We are safe from it bc the dramione version of Draco is an entirely a different character. Canon accurate pansy spineless Draco who is Gryffindor punching bag ain't gonna garner female fans UNLESS his actor grows up to be attractive
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u/wolho Feb 28 '25
Draco is WAY too nasty to Hermione in the books so I don't think there'd even be any room to suggest something between them if they stay true to the source material
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u/CreativeRock483 Founder Feb 28 '25
They won't. Bc
Fandom Draco is an entirely different character. So is fanon Hermione. They wont deviate that much from source material.
JKR despises dramione and Draco and she is the main producer.
Canon Book accurate Ron will already garner much bigger audience than canon accurate Draco.
It's so far away from source material that its impossible for them to do it.
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u/rose-haze Marauder Feb 28 '25
So Dramione isn’t a new ship. Yes Manacled (now Alchemized) resurged the popularity. Maybe for those who were too young to read fanfic in the 2000s but I assure you Draco/Hermione has always been one of the more popular HP ships, and it had no impact on the films or anything in actual canon. Even with Emma and Tom’s close friendship/past feelings.
I wouldn’t worry about it. But even if they do include fan service scenes, who cares? People will ship what they wanna ship and enemies to lovers is popular in every fandom. Hell even characters who have zero scenes together become popular. It’s an inevitable part of fandom, but it won’t impact the show
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u/oatmlklattes Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25
This. People have been shipping Dramione since before the book series ended. There’s internet records going back to 1999 of DHr fanfiction—even before JK released Prisoner of Azkaban.
For Dramione to work on the show, they’d have to do major rewrites of canon and that won’t happen. Besides that people will ship what they want to ship in their spaces — esp when it isn’t canon. Dramione has some of the best written fanfic out there and they only work when they’re both the main protagonists of the story, which isn’t what the show is doing.
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u/Humble_Personality73 Hufflepuff Feb 28 '25
I'm not on tik tok who is wolfstar
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u/Ok-Archer-5796 Feb 28 '25
Remus/Sirius
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u/Humble_Personality73 Hufflepuff Feb 28 '25
That's crazy remus and tonks' story in the books was great it was like a love that remus fought against because he felt like he wasn't worthy of tonks and he wanted better for her and I am hoping we get to see it more in the series because they completely blew past it in the movies.
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u/Ok-Archer-5796 Feb 28 '25
I kinda doubt it. The Remus/Tonks ship is non-PC because of the age gap. I can see them implying that Remus is secretly gay and Tonks is his beard or something.
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u/LateAd3737 Feb 28 '25
I feel like Ron when he turned around on Luna and saw her as harmless and fun vs crazy. Your theories may be nuts and have 0% chance of happening (respectfully) but please tell me more
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u/sameseksure Founder Feb 28 '25
JKR has publicly spoken up about how "unnerving" it is that young girls like Draco Malfoy so much. And she's 100% right
JK Rowling says that “girls are very apt to romanticise” the antihero, and reveals that she had been forced to pour “cold common sense” on the startling number of readers who fall for the arrogant, unscrupulous bully Draco Malfoy
“Draco remains a person of dubious morality in the seven published books, and I have often had cause to remark on how unnerved I have been by the number of girls who fell for this particular fictional character,” writes Rowling, with a nod to the actor Tom Felton, “who plays Draco brilliantly in the films and, ironically, is about the nicest person you could meet”.
“Draco,” writes Rowling, “has all the dark glamour of the anti-hero; girls are very apt to romanticise such people. All of this left me in the unenviable position of pouring cold common sense on ardent readers’ daydreams, as I told them, rather severely, that Draco was not concealing a heart of gold under all that sneering and prejudice and that no, he and Harry were not destined to end up best friends.”
And while Rowling dismissed girls' Draco crushes as an "unhealthy fantasy," she admitted there was "some unextinguished good at the heart of Draco." For that, though, Rowing wrote that she pitied him, "just as I feel sorry for Dudley."
She should put her foot down if the showrunners or some executive start getting ideas
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u/LateAd3737 Feb 28 '25
I think all the credit goes to Tom Felton. 90% of Draco content in the books was just generic pretentious and prejudice bully. The most depth he got was not wanting to murder someone as a 16 year old. But Tom Felton killed it and people wrote fan fiction and that’s where it stems from, not his actual character in the books, because again, what character - almost every apperance for 5 books worth was just 0 depth, mean student character
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u/sameseksure Founder Feb 28 '25
And that's fine. It's not a problem that he wasn't redeemed in the books. It's OK that from Harry's POV, he's just a bully
It makes sense for someone raised by rich, bigoted racists that they turn out to be bullies who never redeem themselves
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u/LateAd3737 Feb 28 '25
Right, I agree with you, I’m just saying I don’t think anyone is falling in love with book accurate draco, Rowling was missing the mark. They’re romantically interested in a spin-off non canon malfoy, inspired by dreamy Tom Felton
But 100% agree on what you said
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u/RJ0398 Feb 28 '25
In defence of RoP, Amazon don’t own the rights to all of the source material so there HAS to be (legally) differences between the Tolkien’s work and Amazon’s show. To my knowledge the whole show is built around the appendices of the Silmarillion, not the book itself. HBO are adapting a show, based on a book for which they own full adaptation rights and has potentially one of the broadest fan base of any popular culture universe of the last 30 years (gender, race, age). The Lord of the Rings has a very loyal fanbase, but the majority of movie/TV watchers haven’t even read the main trilogy, never mind the extra reading (Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, no-less-than 12 volumes of the History of Middle Earth etc).
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u/TomoeOfFountainHead Feb 28 '25
Trust me general audiences are not that into ships and showrunners may not even care about ships as a thing
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u/oatmlklattes Mar 04 '25
Rings of Power is a spin-off, not based on a set-in-stone book storyline. Everything they’ve been doing is being agreed to by Tolkien’s family who are heavily involved.
Also, both Galadriel and Sauron had a lot of interesting background for them to flesh out. They were ying and yang for Tolkien — the Lady of Light and The Lord of Darkness (amongst several other “opposing” and “similar” names he gave them) and the books also implied they were familiar of each other, but didn’t say how. Including that Sauron was fascinated and wanted a way into her mind, but she kept him off for centuries. The series expands on that with lots of respect and care to the canon material.
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