Tom Felton as Lucius was the obvious possibility, and that's not happening

Unless they're already casting for season 2, it looks like they'll be changing up the season 1 story a bit
https://deadline.com/2025/06/harry-potter-cornelius-fudge-casting-bertie-carvel-1236427115/

@jim Does this mean the actor returns and records new footage, or would it also include things like CGI versions of actors or reusing footage from the movies?

@jim Any Harry Potter fanfic is referenced (either explicitly as judged by market creator, or confirmed by someone who works on the show).

Voldemort won't even have a physical body if it's just S1

Possible markets:

• goblins are still anti-Semitic caricatures

• if any student makes anything explode, it's little IRA dude Seamus Finnigan

• the world still doesn't make sense (e.g. the creators don't know how many students there are in Hogwarts or even what the population of wizarding Britain is; no goblin bullion currency arbitrage, etc)

My money (if I were to bet on anything related to the horrible, horrible Rowling) is on Rita Skeeter's trans identity being made explicit rather than implied as in the books.

@BrunoParga I added the option and put a M200 limit order on no. Go grab it.

@CertaintyOfVictory thank you, but I actually don't want to bet on this market because it is about JKR. Sorry if I wasn't clear in my prior comment.

I never heard about this

What makes people think it's implied?

AFAIK a sentence in her description is saying that she has manly hands.

@Ppau the woman who turns into an insect is probably the second-most hateable character in the entire series (behind Umbridge; Voldemort is not even in the same postcode). And, as some rando on the internet put it:

In The Goblet of Fire, Rita is described as having a 'heavily jawed face', 'mannish hands', and 'a surprisingly strong grip' as well as very fake nails, very fake hair, and a few very fake teeth.

This description coupled with the fact that she is literally illegally transforming her body in order to spy on children is no doubt Jo's way of reminding us of her transphobic tendencies.

If this wasn't Rowling, if there wasn't a lot of other obviously problematic things, this might get a pass. But we're talking about a world with a race of frail, greedy, hook-nosed, unfair-dealing, strange-named beings who could in principle form families with "normal people" but usually do not and who control banking and the money supply; the goblins in HP are an obvious anti-Semitic caricature.

So yeah, the characterization of Rita Skeeter does not get a pass.

Thanks
I'm not sure what antisemitism has to do with transphobia, but consider me relatively convinced

I put up an M1000 limit order on NO if someone wants to bet on that.

VOLDEMORT HAS A NOSE

@AbhinavSrinivas are we talking Voldemort on Quirrell’s head?

@mattyb no just like ykw in goblet, order, halfblood, and deathly

does original writer mean for the show or is it something like it says "based on the works of J K Rowling"?

@jim what i’m intending here for the writer credit is that they’ll reference her writing of the books in the credits. Similar to Dune 2 and Frank