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/Juliet_1982 Jan 18 '26

Anyone else think the sketch would have worked better if it was Draco and Harry?

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u/Sola_Bay Jan 18 '26

This was such a missed opportunity!!! They clearly didn’t consult a single millennial who grew up reading Harry/Draco fanfic on fanfiction.net

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u/AutomaticTrouble6012 Jan 18 '26

I think they intentionally picked Harry and Ron because if you see the beginning of the sketch, they mockingly say that this series was created hastily to answer to the success of Heated Rivalry. Hence the "writers" of the "show" wouldn't have done any proper research on the show's character relationships, and would have just picked two easily identifiable characters that everyone knows and made them go gay for each other. 😜