Harry Potter star Bonnie Wright explains why series shouldn’t be rebooted

Earlier this year, we heard rumblings that HBO Max was in the early stages of developing a live-action Harry Potter TV show. The top brass at HBO shut those rumors down pretty quickly, but it’s hardly the first time the idea of a Harry Potter series of some kind has occurred to fans, whether it’s a spinoff about the Marauders, a show about the founding of Hogwarts, an adaptation of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with the movie actors, or just a new adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s original books.

Some fans are very much in favor of a reboot, but others (including me) aren’t. On our side is Bonnie Wright, who played Ginny, the youngest Weasley sibling and eventually Harry Potter’s wife.

Speaking to People during the renovated reopening of Warner Bros Studios Tour in California, Wright addressed the age-old reboot question. “I would hope that they keep it as it was,” Wright said. “I think it’s like a time capsule, and [if] you open it and it changes, everything feels kind of different.”

There have been plenty of reboots and continuations in recent years, but I’m sure there are things we can agree are good enough not to be revisited that way. For instance, do we really want a reboot of The Office or Friends? I know I don’t!

“For sure, I miss playing Ginny, but I always quite like the idea that it’s properly compacted into those seven years at Hogwarts,” Wright continued. That said, she wouldn’t turn away the opportunity to return to the Wizarding World if the opportunity presented itself. “I love the experience so much. And I know that the production and all of us would do it so well that no matter what they imagined, it would be brilliant.”

Harry Potter reboot: Yay or nay?

If you ask me, sometimes some things are better left in the past. You just don’t mess with something that is as perfect and iconic and beloved as Harry Potter. And as much as I would love to see this world return, I agree with Wright that it’s a time capsule that shouldn’t be tampered with for a long time to come, if ever.

The only exception I can think of is the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play, which first premiered in London and has since made its way around the world. It’s a continuation of the story we know and focuses on the children of Harry and Ginny and Ron and Hermione. I might watch an adaptation of that, but otherwise I’m good with what we have!

But in a reboot-happy world, I won’t be shocked if something does eventually happen. And if it ever does, I know I’ll be sitting with my tub of popcorn ready to watch it as soon as it premieres.

Would you like to see a Harry Potter reboot?

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h/t Digital Spy