HBO 'Harry Potter's Female Voldemort Casting Splits Fanbase Down the Middle

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Side-by-side images: Tilda Swinton in 'Avengers: Endgame' on the left, Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort in 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'

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9 Comments

  1. Mr Conservative

    As long as HBO is going to screw up the casting why not make it a black transgender? Idiots!

  2. Tom

    Make all males black and female, better yet trans,same with the females. Make sure you add every color, except white because that doesn’t represent England at all. Lots of gay characters please, Harry should be a trans to really get people watching this now train wreck.

  3. Dave

    Bad move. To hardcore Potter fans,The Dark Lord was a man. Why change something that works? What next? The main characters have Indian accents instead of British???

  4. Revan2574

    What gets me is that this series is supposed to be as close to the books as you can get. Yet they want to change a key character.

  5. SS

    Faithful retelling of the books? By whose delusion? Snape was white and that was clearly evident in his description in the boos. But let’s black wash him and watch the blatant racial connotations in the flashback scenes where James is bullying Snape. Oh and now it will be obvious why Lilly chose James over Snape, because Snape is black. While we’re at it let’s make Voldemort female adding in a lesbian slant to the whole thing why don’t we? I mean Bellatrix was in love with Voldemort but now let’s make it two lesbian lovers instead. So ok blackwash a main character throwing in the done to death race hate against blacks (they just love being victims) and toss in some gender swapping homosexual tension in it too. Yup, faithful retelling of the books but it sure covers some the woke talking points.

  6. Randi B

    Voldemort is clearly a man. How can a female be “Tom Riddle”?

    1. Alison

      Tomasina obviously.

      People will still watch it irrespective of who is cast as what. There will be the ones who watch just to slate it (the JK Rowling haters), then there’s the Potter fans (to either slate it or rave about it). Either way it’ll get viewers – at least for the first series. Whether it gets anywhere near the final book though…possibly not. Falling viewing figures will be like one of the death eaters swooping down ready to suck the life out of it…

  7. Tony

    Way to nosedive into oblivion.

  8. Clarence Dean Nichols

    A favorite song comes to mind another one bites the dust

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