Harry Potter TV Remake Can Finally Do Justice To A Key Character From The Books (That The Movies Quickly Forgot About)

The Harry Potter TV remake is the best chance to fix some of the movie’s mistakes and bring characters who were left aside, and thanks to this, it can do justice to a key character from the books that the movies quickly forgot about. The world of Harry Potter continues to be one of the biggest and most popular ones in the fantasy genre, and now, over a decade since the final movie in the saga was released, the story of Harry Potter and Voldemort is getting a new adaptation.

The Harry Potter remake will be a TV show, which gives it narrative and creative opportunities that the movies didn’t have. Details about the Harry Potter TV remake are still unknown, such as how it will cover the books (one per season or some other way), but it opens up many possibilities for it thanks to the richness of the novels. The Harry Potter TV series is now the perfect chance to do justice to those characters the movies failed, among them one who only appeared in the first movie, but had a much larger role in the books.

Harry Potter TV Series Can Properly Explore Firenze’s Story

Centaur Firenze Only Appeared In The First Harry Potter Movie

The Harry Potter movies left many characters out and others were given much smaller roles than in the books. One of them is Firenze, the centaur who was only seen in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. When Hagrid took Harry, Draco, and the others to their detention in the forest, Harry and Draco came across a dead unicorn and a hooded figure drinking its blood. Draco ran away in fear, but the hooded figure turned to Harry, whose scar started to hurt. Luckily for Harry, Firenze appeared and the hooded figure fled.

Firenze told Harry about the dead unicorns in the Forbidden Forest, what the hooded creature was doing, and the crime that is killing unicorns. That’s the only interaction between Harry and Firenze, and he didn’t appear in the rest of the movies, but in the books, he had a larger role. Firenze took Harry out of the forest on his back, for which he was yelled at by another centaur. Years later, Firenze became professor of Divination at Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Dolores Umbridge fired Sybill Trelawney.

Firenze was cast out of his colony for taking the spot as a professor at Hogwarts and was attacked by his fellow centaurs, but Hagrid saved him. When Umbridge left and Trelawney returned, Dumbledore let him continue teaching alongside Trelawney as he couldn’t return to his colony. Firenze attended Dumbledore’s funeral and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts alongside the rest of the teachers. Firenze is the bridge between humans and centaurs, who have a complex relationship in the wizarding world, making him a key character who should be included in the TV remake.

Harry Potter TV Series Can Explain The Complex Relationship Between Humans & Centaurs

There’s A Lot Of History Between Humans & Centaurs

With Firenze not appearing again after his very brief role in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the Harry Potter saga skipped the tension and history between humans and centaurs. Centaurs are naturally skilled in archery, healing magic, divination, and astronomy. Centaurs have a deep connection with nature and are against humans’ tendency toward violence, greed, and anthropocentrism, but they don’t recognize that not all humans are destructive. The Ministry of Magic classified them as having “near-human intelligence” despite their high intelligence.

Firenze was the only one who gave humans a chance, knowing by experience that not all of them were dangerous. Firenze served as a middle ground between wizards and centaurs, and the former gave him a home when his colony kicked him out. Firenze and the centaurs deserve a place in the Harry Potter TV remake, as they are important to understand the different and complex relationships in the wizarding world.

Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a multimedia franchise about an orphaned boy who enrolls at Hogwarts School of Wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family, and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. Adapted from the novels, Harry Potter is an eight-episode film saga that follows the journey of Harry Potter and his friends, Hermoine Granger and Ron Weasley, as they navigate the tricky world of growing up, school life, and magic. Starting from year one and moving to their seventh year, the films chronicle the students’ time at Hogwarts while unfurling a sinister plot that centers around the unsuspecting Harry. With the return of the dark wizard, Voldemort, the students and professors at Hogwarts will fight to carry on as the world around them may change forever. Harry Potter has expanded beyond the world of its films and novels with several video games, a spin-off film series titled Fantastic Beasts, and even attractions at Universal Studios.

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe , Emma Watson , Rupert Grint , Tom Felton , Alan Rickman , Matthew Lewis , Bonnie Wright , Evanna Lynch , Maggie Smith , Michael Gambon , Richard Harris , Ralph Fiennes , Helena Bonham Carter , Alfred Enoch , Harry Melling , Gary Oldman , Robert Pattinson , Warwick Davis , Oliver Phelps , James Phelps , David Bradley , David Thewlis , Katie Leung , Jason Isaacs , Imelda Staunton , David Tennant , Jamie Campbell Bower , Timothy Spall , Robbie Coltrane , Eddie Redmayne , Jude Law , Katherine Waterston , Ezra Miller , Dan Fogler , Alison Sudol , Johnny Depp , Mads Mikkelsen

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