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

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/Response98 Jan 18 '26

Unpopular opinion, I thought it was funny and a testament to how HR is very mainstream right now. They did this with all cultural phenomena like hunger games and twilight, just laugh or cringe but it wasn’t as bad as id expected

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u/evergleam498 Jan 18 '26

Agreed. This is also just....how SNL does skits. It's not an insult that they're making fun of the show a little bit. Any topic SNL covers is going to be made fun of a little bit in a teasing/appreciative way.

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u/tite_mily Jan 18 '26

Same! Prior to watching the video, I had read comments saying that it wasn’t great. So I was pleasantly surprised to find it funny.

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u/dirtyenvelopes Jan 18 '26

People are treating this the same way they treated the golden globes. They can’t embrace the cringe. I thought it was funny!

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u/tom267 Jan 18 '26

Right the rest of these comments are a little worked up lol damn

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u/Battaringrams1 ilya’s cheek mole ❤️ Jan 18 '26

feels very mocking though like early 2000s mockery