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The Harry Potter movies were great, weren’t they? All the magic of the books, up there on the big screen. But the big screen brought problems – the thing is, it’s hard to fit something as massive as Harry Potter in cinema. Even the first movie, which managed to capture quite a bit of the story, felt rushed. It’s my opinion that Harry Potter would have fared much better – adaptation-wise – as a TV series.

It only makes sense that a movie can’t fit a whole book without feeling rushed, or without having bits cut out. It’s illogical to want every single book in the Harry Potter series to be a two-part movie, although I would’ve been really happy with that. However, in the later movies, Harry Potter wasn’t just rushed – it was becoming more and more unfaithful to the source material. Hogfather, a TV miniseries adapted from the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, was a brilliant, entertaining adaptation, with almost nothing from the book left out or changed. Although Harry Potter would have had to be a longer series, this is still quite a good example of the fact that TV series can adapt books very well.

Of course, there is the question of whether TV shows can bring the acting quality and sheer scale of a movie, to which I say unto you: “have you seen Doctor Who? Or Smallville?” It’s hard to deny the fact that The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang was, while on the small screen, as massive as (or, in my opinion, even more so than) something seen in Cinema, and that the acting quality of The Doctor’s Wife and The Girl Who Waited sparkled as much as something that would go up for an Oscar. And it’s undeniable that, now, TV series are attracting as much, if not more, attention than movies, so Harry Potter would definitely have been as popular as it is now, as movies.

Of course, we’ve missed that boat long ago, and it’s going to take quite some time before anybody is brave enough to try and remake the Harry Potter series (or before the fandom will let them do so). One can only hope that when they do, they know what they’re doing.

As an aside, I’d say that if a Harry Potter series was made, the only people who should make it would be the BBC. Obviously.