HBO - NEW WIZARDING WORLD (THIS DECEMBER)

This winter I am really looking forward to two new things: the release of Pokémon Gen 10 (a new region/counterpart culture inspired by Southeast Asia, new starters, new species, new guiri(foreign tourist)-looking Pikachu, a male and female...) but first and foremost HBO HARRY POTTER, The Series of the Books (like Game of Thrones or Lemony Snicket) instead of the Films of the Books - this being a series with hour-long episodes will add many more details that were skipped in the films (many scenes with Harry at the Dursleys' for instance) and characters and subplots that were likewise skipped (like poltergeist Peeves or Winky, the Crouches' female house-elf!) for want of space in the films. (Not to mention the SPEW subplot! We could also get A LOT of Marauders flashbacks - MARAUDERS FANS, REJOICE!!!). Actors have been recast and objects/products have been rebranded, we have a new Hogwarts coat of arms...

The new Golden Trio, canonizing now the fanon that Hermione is black - makes sense that she is the Daenerys of the Wizarding World, freeing the slaves (house-elves) and being called ethnic slurs (mudblood).

But I can't conceive of a black Snape. He must be pale and have an aquiline nose... More Lion of Judah than Serpent of Slytherin, even more in these dreadlocks... looks like many Rastafarians I have seen at the Rototom during summers in Benicàssim!

The new Draco Malfoy has the wrong shade of blond and the wrong shape of hair, the goldilocks look makes him look like David Bisbal (and on screen he doesn't change his colour and shape of hair to straight and platinum)... 

You can also see that the uniform has changed. The house ties/scarves are still there, but the uniform now has, for all houses, a maroon waistcoat and green plaid skirt/trousers (depending on the student's gender). 

The new Hogwarts crest, with the Lion of Gryffindor and Badger of Slytherin as tenants, the Eagle of Ravenclaw on top, and the Serpent of Slytherin as an ouroboros around the initial H. Looks like a real coat of arms and moreover more inspired by the Queen crest:

I grew up with the quartered, four-coloured Hogwarts crest but I can totally see this new design on merchandise, like on a sweatshirt sold at Primark.

The packaging of the sweets also changes. Every-Flavour Beans now come in pyramidal packagings with a Jack and the Beanstalk motif, and that of Chocolate Frogs is now shaped like a six-petal waterlily. 

The Chocolate Frog packaging opens at the top, the petals unfold... and the Frogs are still made of Croakoa, and sentient, but now green (tastes like mint, I guess?) and much more realistic. Also, the famous wizard trading cards now come in hexagonal shape because the packaging is no longer pentagonal!

Moreover the new series has added scenes of Harry at the Dursleys' when his powers activate (before he learns he's a wizard: Harry's powers activate when he's stressed/bullied). For instance: Aunt Petunia gives him a bad haircut and his hair grows back at lightning speed.