Even decades after the release of the last Harry Potter movie, there stands a universal truth about the franchise – the books are always better than the films. Now, a major reason behind this partiality is because the films, despite being magical in their own way, failed to live up to the Potterheads’ expectations.
Leaving out major details, significant characters, and important events, the Harry Potter films lousily focused on the obvious logline. Therefore, considering the Wizarding World awaiting an upcoming TV series, fans believe it’s high time the show rectifies the issues marked by the movies. Starting with more character involvement, we have a list of 5 important personas from the novels who must appear in the TV show.
1. Charlie Weasley
Making his first significant appearance in The Goblet of Fire book, the second eldest member of the Weasley family after Bill, Charlie Weasley is an important character who was blatantly ignored in the movies. Although in the films he was mentioned as the sibling who lives in Romania to study dragons, the character never had screen time.
In the books, during the Triwizard Tournament, Charlie Weasley was the one who assisted with the dragons that were used for one of the challenges. Further, according to the books, it was through Charlie that Harry learned important information about the task, unlike the scene shown in the films, where Ron shared the information. Later, in the books, Charlie also appears to fight in the war against Voldemort with the rest of the Weasley family.
Therefore, considering his importance and being a member of the Weasley family, Charlie is the top character on our list, who must appear in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series.
2. Hepzibah Smith
One of the major aspects that was entirely edited from the films was how Lord Voldemort created the Horcruxes. Skimming the backstory of how Tom Riddle became The Dark Lord, and how he gathered his followers and turned objects into Horcruxes, the films failed to justify the storyline. In the journey of editing this part, the Harry Potter films skipped out on the detailed backstory and the scenes involving Hepzibah Smith.
Claimed to be the descendant of Helga Hufflepuff, Hepzibah Smith was a pivotal character who paved Lord Voldemort’s path to the dark side. Being an avid collector of magical antiques, including the famed cup of Helga Hufflepuff and the locket of Salazar Slytherin, Hepzibah was the one, who was killed by the Dark Lord in an attempt to create the two Horcruxes.
Lousily skipping out on the story of how Tom Riddle befriended Hepzibah Smith and manipulated her into showing him her treasures, the films neglected the process of Horcrux creation. Therefore, now, fans want Hepzibah to appear in the upcoming show.
3. The Gaunt Family
Leaving out Hepzibah Smith, the films indeed left a sizable hole in Voldemort’s backstory. But neglecting the Gaunt Family pretty much erased Voldemort’s story, entirely. Despite being a noble and prominent pure-blood family, descended from Salazar Slytherin, the Gaunts were never even mentioned in the films.
The story of how Marvolo Gaunt’s family of three was reduced to poverty, violence, and mental instability, the films seemingly neglected it all. In doing so, they skipped the story of how Voldemort’s mother Merope Gaunt was treated by her family and how her bewitchment of wealthy and handsome muggle Tom Riddle led to the Dark Lord never feeling the emotion of love.
Further, skipping the portion where Voldemort killed the Gaunts in cold blood to turn the family ring into his Horcrux, the films left out major details. Now, in the upcoming TV series, fans therefore want the Gaunt family to appear and witness Voldemort’s backstory.
4. Winky
While the Harry Potter movies featured Dobby as the fan-favorite House Elf, they skipped on the other significant elves who were crucial to the storyline. In the films, only Dobby and Kreacher get an appearance, while quite a few of these little creatures get overshadowed. One of the most important house elves among all was the Crouch family elf, Winky.
Winky was deeply ingrained in the backstory of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where she was framed by Barty Crouch Jr. for his own dark magic, which led Barty Crouch Sr to dismiss her from work. Despite her total loyalty to the Crouch family, as she was dismissed by her master and was forced to serve in the Hogwarts kitchen, Winky was devastated and ended up being depressed throughout.
Her storyline deeply influenced Hermione, who then became involved with the house elf rights movement and created her organization S.P.E.W. Now, Winky is being highly requested by fans among important characters who must appear in the upcoming Harry Potter TV show.
5. Peeves the Poltergeist
Since the Harry Potter franchise, both in literature and cinema began with light-hearted stories, JK Rowling thus introduced a mischievous character called Peeves the Poltergeist in the books. Roaming the halls of Hogwarts, making the lives of students harder, this particular character was added on a thematic level to not only be a jerk to Harry but also remind the readers to laugh, even when things started taking a dark turn.
Much like Nearly Headless Nick, Peeves the Poltergeist was also supposed to appear in the films, but for some reason, he never made it to the big screen. Constantly causing chaos, pulling pranks, and tormenting Filch the caretaker, this mischievous character’s imminent presence in Hogwarts is one of the favorite aspects for Potterheads. Therefore, Peeves appeared on the list of characters that fans want to feature in the upcoming TV series.
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