Return to Hogwarts - How will you watch it?

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I was looking forward to this until I read today that it is only streaming on HBO????
Is it likely to be available anywhere else afterwards?

I won't be watching it (despite being a huge Harry Potter fan) because of the disgraceful way that JKR has been treated. I read a review which said that without JKR's involvement in this reunion, there obviously aren't any new takes or insights into anything to do with the world she created. Recycled old footage isn't the same. So basically, it'll be the actors, many of whom found fame and fortune through the franchise, falling on each others necks and congratulating each other. Without acknowledging the author who brought that world to life.

I'll be skipping it.

And given how many of the cast have been very vocal about how 'abhorrent' they find her views, I really can't blame her for not wanting to put herself in that position.

Exactly @Waitwhat23, I wouldn't trust any of the cast or production/editing not to do a 'gotcha' on me if l was JK and use shoddy cuts or editing for nefarious reasons. (It's not paranoia I'd they're really out to get you....)

I stand with JKR so won’t be watching.

Hugh hp fan but wont be watching after how theyve treated jk.

Another that won't be watching here, I like the idea of sending love to Jk though!
I always loved Harry Potter, but I couldn't enjoy a screen version where the main characters are played by actors who I know to be willfully ignorant and privileged at best, and spineless snivelling turncoats at worst. The fact that their transgressions are such a personal attack against my personal main shero and role model, a woman who both made them and saved and improved countless lives with hard work and charitable donations, is obviously beyond unforgivable and only serves to illuminate the truly mind bending depths of their idiotic conformity and inability to even percieve of the level of intellect required to execute the kind of masterful plays they must have been privy to in working alongside the woman swiftly catapulting herself toward becoming the most prolific author of all time and never compromising on her vision, her ethics, her sheer dignity...
Fuck them.

Not watching it either. I find I can't bring myself to watch anything with those backstabbing wee ingrates in it any more.

I enjoyed the HP books and movies, but won't be watching this.
The main cast makes me gag. The way they've treated JKR is disgusting (that, and all the empty, gutless virtue signalling, and throwing women's rights under the bus)

I'm an HP fanatic but will not be watching. They're a bunch of ungrateful twats. They need to get their heads out of their own arses and actually read what JK wrote. Rant over!

I'm making a probably pointless stand in not watching it due to JKR not being included.

Same here!

How are people sending love to JK?

I stand with JK Rowling and won’t be watching either.

Another one who loves Harry Potter, it has been a huge part of our family’s life:bedtime stories, film nights, days outs, etc.

Not one of us wants to watch it, and quite frankly even watching the films, in light of the betrayal of Radcliffe, Watson and Grint, is not the same.

The author isn’t in it, the person who imagined and penned the whole magical world, but many of the key characters are missing too, or dead. The only ones there are the ones whom I respect least.

I won’t watch it either. Without JK it wouldn’t exist.

Also agree that Julie Walters and Maggie Smith not being there means the ones left aren't ones I particularly respect.

I don't really rate the movies aside from Maggie Smith. The books are about a million times better.

Oh and Alan Rickman who is sadly dead, so not there either

I wonder if MS and JW aren't on it because JKR isn't.

I'll be watching it because me and DD are mad HP fans and there are other ways to support JKR. I stand with JKR but I am not going to miss the show because of it.

I don't find these actors at all interesting, having heard some of their views, so I won't be watching.

I will not be watching it - I stand with JKR.

We are big HP fans in this household, but I can’t get excited about this for all the reasons mentioned upthread.

DD did say the actor who played Draco came out in support of JKR, but then she has a rather weird crush on film Draco, so possibly can’t be trusted

I won’t be watching either, I have no interest in anything those 3 actors have to say!

It's on sky max and I think now tv

Not watching it. I stand with JKR.

Scared to admit as I’m probably in for some backlash but I did watch it (on now tv for anyone that’s interested) and actually it was nice, they paid their respects to the actors who had sadly died, Emma, Daniel and Rupert all talked about the amazing actors they worked with as in richard Harris, Julie walters, Ralph Fiennes, Maggic Smith etc. They were all very respectful of JKR and noted her brilliance and how her books restored reading among the masses when reading was really a dying trend and their were lots of anecdotes from filming, plus lots of info from the directors and the visions they had for the films.