I'm probably not going to watch the new Harry Potter HBO series when it comes out. Or, at least, it would take some pretty incredible reviews to get me to pirate it.
BUT. If I had creative control over this series. If I could make one (1) change to the story and worldbuilding. It would be to nerf apparation.
As a functional plot device for the DH storyline it is obviously extremely necessary. I get why it was introduced later in the series (even though all the prior books make it obvious it was a retcon.) But I stg instantaneous teleportation for every adult witch or wizard with VERY few limits is SUCH a terrible thing to introduce to a story that already has so many other creative magical transportation options. WHY isn't this a Voldemort or Dumbledore level skill??? HP wizards are so overpowered. It could have been limited to only one of the trio being able to apparate, and not well. DH does still function as a story with that change. It's like putting a speedster in your superhero movie. You just have to kill them I'm sorry. I'm beginning to think that all of my HP fic ideas are born out of my incredible need to put hard limits on apparation. (If she didn't want me to hate apparation she shouldn't have given me flying broomsticks and magical trains, I'm just saying.)
(If I had the power to make many many changes to the new HP series, I would completely overhaul the magical world's economic system. It makes NO SENSE. WHY would a post-scarcity society function like this. WHAT DO YOU MEAN there is a duplication spell. Aaagggghhhh it gives me hives. This is the source of the rest of my fic ideas.)
