Why JK Rowling Keeps Changing (& Hurting) Harry Potter Canon
J.K. Rowling keeps changing Harry Potter canon to improve the Fantastic Beasts series, but her efforts have mostly had the opposite effect. Rowling's original Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (or, as it's known in the U.S., The Sorcerer's Stone), took the world by storm when it hit bookshelves in 1997, and kicked off an entire series of books about the young boy wizard's adventures. The first Harry Potter movie adaptation hit theaters shortly after 2001 and was an equally massive success at the global box office. A further seven films were released after that and combined for a total worldwide gross of $7.7 billion.
Unsurprisingly, in the years since The Boy Who Lived's saga concluded, the larger franchise (now known as the Wizarding World) has expanded. It now encompasses theme park lands, video games, the official Pottermore website, a sequel play titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and a series of prequel films about magizoologist Newt Scamander (aka. the Fantastic Beasts series). In that same time, Rowling has worked tirelessly to expand the Wizarding World mythology, including the universe's history and the backstories of its many, many characters. And yet, if anything, Rowling seems to have hurt Harry Potter's continuity more than enriched it.
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Indeed, it seems like every time Rowling reveals something new about the Wizarding World, especially in Fantastic Beasts, the response is anything but positive. However, to understand why that is, one has to go back in time to a point when Rowling's changes to the Harry Potter canon tended to be better received. Here's why J.K. Rowling keeps changing Harry
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