Re: The New "Harry Potter" Kids Are Finally Cast

On 2025-05-27 22:52:35 +0000, shawn said:

On Tue, 27 May 2025 19:56:43 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
 

On May 27, 2025 at 9:33:14 AM PDT, "Alan Smithee" <alms@last.inc> wrote:
 

HBO's HARRY POTTER Series Finds Its Harry, Ron and Hermione
  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hbo-harry-potter-series-hermione-ron-weasley-actors-1236230730/  

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 There were eight Harry Potter films and a series of three Fantastic Beasts movies-- a spinoff of the original IP. Author J.K. Rowling wrote seven Harry Potter books; the eighth book in the series was split into two movies.

 The last sentence makes no sense. It says Rowling wrote seven books. Then it
says the eighth book was split into two movies. So were there seven books or
eight books?

 The way that read to me was that there were eight books but only seven
written by Rowling. That's likely not what was meant but the sentence
structure doesn't make that clear. Hell, another reading is that there
were only two movies made, each based off the eighth book. So the
first seven books were never made into movies.

The Harry Potter series curently consists of eight books, so far ... seven written by JK Rowling and then the book version of the "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" stage play (supposedly co-written by Rowling, but more likely she just oversaw the project and had the final approval). There is no movie of that eighth book, yet.
As for the article, either it is obviously lazy rushed 'journalism' and/or created by useless AI (Assified Ignorance).