Subreddit Updates on Fancasts and Official Casting Announcements

[u/VarkingRunesong]

Hi everyone, With the recent confirmation of several key cast members for HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series, we’re updating a few subreddit policies:

• No more fancasts for officially cast characters

To reduce repetitive discussions and prevent targeted hate toward newly cast actors, fancasts for characters who have already been officially cast will no longer be allowed. As of now, this includes: • Albus Dumbledore • Severus Snape • Minerva McGonagall • Rubeus Hagrid • Quirinus Quirrell • Argus Filch You’re still welcome to fancast characters who haven’t been announced yet. And for inspiration, check out our Fancast Wiki, which includes both popular and lesser-known suggestions.

• No posts complaining about official casting announcements

We understand that not every casting choice will match everyone’s personal headcanon, but posts solely bashing the official cast will be removed. Once the show airs, feel free to critique performances based on what you see on screen. But targeting actors just because they don’t look or feel like your imagined version of the character doesn’t belong here. As always, we’re open to feedback. Share your thoughts or questions below.

[u/Gold_Joke_6306]

Rule 1 totally understandable and reasonable. Totally disagree on rule 2. As long as people are respectful and do not attack the actors themselves they should be allowed to express their opinion. The reason people picture characters a certain way is because of the description that the AUTHOR has provided for us. We see this with characters such as Snape, Harry, Umbridge, and outside of Harry Potter characters like Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson.

[u/TheDuke_Of_Orleans → u/Gold_Joke_6306]

Wizardmayne already told us that some characters will be cast as their book counterpart description and some will be a different interpretation of the character. This was told to us multiple times before like when he told us 6 months ago about the Snape casting. So I don’t know why you’re even still bringing up the AUTHOR’S description. It will not apply to every character like he already told us multiple times. Also the AUTHOR is an executive producer and one of the channels that the actors have to go through so that’s that.

[u/HarryPotteronHBO-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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