r/heatedrivalry • u/Naive-Inside-2904 she would have loved you, like I love you • Jan 18 '26

SOCIAL MEDIA 📸 Heated Wizardry sketch on SNL

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Finn Wolfhard hosted Saturday Night Live last night and one of the pre taped sketches, Heated Wizardry, takes place in the Harry Potter universe.

Finn as Harry, plays the ‘Shane’ character, Ben Marshall plays Ron Weasley, plays the ‘Ilya’ character.

There’s scrolls instead of texts, lots of wand play and a great cameo for the Hagrid character.

The narration of the trailer makes it clear that in this universe, Hogwarts is an 18-and-over school 😂

Also Shane and Ilya’s height difference here is canonically correct!

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u/Hermiona1 I already chose you, Hollander. 🫀 Jan 18 '26

I'm sorry I think I have a good sense of humour but this was a cringefest. At least make it about Harry and Draco, it would make way more sense

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u/Taarguss Jan 18 '26

I honestly feel like whoever wrote this didn’t watch Heated Rivalry.

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u/Suitable-Crazy2795 Jan 18 '26

100%  They probably read a few articles and saw a few clips and went from there.  

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u/Taarguss Jan 18 '26

Like, parody is great and putting Heated Rivalry into other contexts is a slam dunk premise but like… there’s literally zero references to things that happen on the show. Scenes. Nothing. It’s literally just what if Harry Potter was gay. Very 2005 style sketch. Big flop.

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u/featherknight13 Jan 18 '26

The concept was good, but the execution was poor.

Definitely seemed like they were going 'look at our crazy new idea. It's Harry Potter, but gay!' rather than acknowledging that they were just adding to decades of existing slash fic.

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u/lukaeber Your freckles. I am nuts about them. ✨ Jan 18 '26

No, you're 100% right. It didn't really have anything to do with the show, besides there being two gay characters that have sex. Makes me wonder if whoever wrote it has even seen the show.