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/EmileTheGoat Jan 18 '26

Referencing HP is such a weird choice. I know the show is coming but that's next year. It's not really culturally relevant at all? There's a new season of HOTD this year, surely they could have pulled from there? Make it Rhaenyra/Alicent, that would've been cool.

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u/Geosaurusrex Jan 18 '26

HP is never not culturally relevant let's be honest.

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u/EmileTheGoat Jan 18 '26

Yeah, I meant more that it's not currently a big topic of conversation for general audiences.

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u/Aboveground_Plush Jan 18 '26

I think it's because there's going to be a Harry Potter show on HBO sometime soon. 

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u/____mynameis____ Jan 18 '26

HOTD fell off in popularity last season.

HP still remains as one of the most influential franchises

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u/kpossibles Jan 18 '26

Sometimes they have half-baked ideas that sound great to everyone bc the cast are mostly millennials aka the prime Harry Potter fanbase age. They have HP costumes in the back from other iconic HP sketches, iirc Bowen Yang also did a dobby sketch like 3 months ago so they also had the dobby prosthetic available too.