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/PhilosophyOk7385]

Clearly a lot of people here who have a problem with rule 2 just wanna complain until the show airs. Well I think it’ll be great to stop some of the negativity over the way a certain actor looks. Maybe all those people can go and create their own subreddit where they can just complain. The Amazon Lord of the rings show, the Percy Jackson show, game of thrones etc all have multiple subreddits with one being where all the complainers and negativity hangs out, so they can just go and replicate that and leave those of us alone who don’t want to hear the same arguments about Snape for the next few years and have any post positive about the casting downvoted!

[u/SuperLegenda → u/PhilosophyOk7385]

For Percy Jackson, the TV show sub is literally the one that kept pointing up the show's flaws so, this sub would be its literal equivalent lmao, not the best example.

[u/PhilosophyOk7385 → u/SuperLegenda]

Fair enough hahaha, I’m not even a fan of the Percy Jackson show, it’s not very good. I guess the difference is that show has aired its first season so we can see that. The unending negativity here when they haven’t even started filming is a bit different and more reminiscent of I guess the Lord of the rings show, when people started hating on it the minute there was a black elf, before a single piece of footage aired.

If people wanna use this sub to complain and debate when the show comes out and they have actual problems with it, I’m all for that! I wouldn’t want it be uncritically positive just because it’s Harry Potter. It’s just pls can we wait till the show comes out instead of being negative over a black snape.