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HBO has just released the first trailer for its television adaptation of ‘harry potter‘, and the most widespread reaction is neither enthusiasm nor rejection: it is that of a certain déjà vu uncomfortable. The series premieres on Christmas 2026 and already raises the question that has been floating for two years without an answer: what does this contribute that the film saga that started in 2001 and that marked the generation does not have? millennial? The trailer. The first season of this series based on the saga of children’s wizards by JK Rowling, titled ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ (that is, everything indicates that it will focus on the first volume), will premiere on Christmas 2026 with eight episodes. Earlier than expected, since the calendar pointed to early 2027. The trailer presents the new leading trio: Dominic McLaughlin as Harry, Arabella Stanton as Hermione and Alastair Stout as Ron, along with a gallery of strong secondary actors: John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Paapa Essiedu as Snape, Janet McTeer as McGonagall and Nick Frost as Hagrid. Everything the same. “I don’t know how to explain it, but this looks like the live-action version of a live-action movie,” he wrote. a Reddit user a few hours after the trailer was published, and there are those who consider that phrase a perfect summary of the most widespread reaction. Another noted: “I feel like I woke up in an alternate reality where the series looks and sounds the same, but the characters have other faces.” The same suits, the same reference planes, the same spaces, but different faces. They had already warned. It can’t be said that we didn’t know. In August, Chris Columbus (director of the first two films and largely responsible for the aesthetic representation of the books on screen) declared that, upon seeing photos from Hagrid’s filming, the character was wearing “the exact same costume we designed. Part of me thought, what’s the point of this? I thought everything was going to be different, but it’s more of the same.” The trailer gave shape to their fears with absolute precision. The amusement park variable. There is an economic variable that is rarely mentioned, but that is decisive. Since Universal opened the first Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando in 2010, the parks’ annual attendance has doubled and revenue grew by 109% between 2010 and 2015until reaching 3,340 million dollars. Today the ecosystem extends to Japan, Hollywood, Beijing and, in the coming years, an ambitious resort in Bedford, United Kingdom. All that framework (castles, costumes, interactive elements, stores) visually replicate the movies, not the books. TO JK Rowling It is also good for you to maintain that consistency. The second largest source of income for the author It is her participation in the profits of the theme parks, which makes her an interested party in ensuring that the aesthetics of the franchise remain stable. Rowling, who is also listed as an executive producer on the series, stated that worked closely with the scriptwriters in adaptation. Everything under control. Not all bad. There have also been positive reactions: some fans they perceive details of the books that the movies left out: these encyclopedic fans have been waiting for decades for a version that does literal justice to Rowling’s original, and as Columbus recognizedbeing able to adapt each book in ten hours allows us to include many aspects that were left out in the movies. The trailer, of course, has to focus on what is recognizable, on what the millennials They expect to see, and hence the mirror effect has been sought. The series, when it premieres, will have to find the balance between surprise and predictability. In Xataka | A Harry Potter fan fiction was so successful that it changed the names of its protagonists. And thanks to this he earned 3 million dollars