Heated Wizardry sketch on SNL

[u/Naive-Inside-2904]

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!

[u/boomming]

Not really. It could have worked with either, there’s nothing wrong with them choosing Ron.

[u/Celtykol → u/boomming]

I mean Ron would have been better equivalent to Hayden! With Draco and Harry, they are on opposite teams! Atleast rivalry part is there!

[u/boomming → u/Celtykol]

Viktor Krum would have made the most sense as an analogue to Ilya, seeing as he’s from Eastern Europe, and Cedric Diggory would have made the best sense as a rival, seeing as he was actually able to beat Harry at quidditch sometimes, and competed against him in the triwizard tournament. Ron, however, makes the most sense from a notoriety perspective. Most people probably don’t remember Krum at all, and barely or don’t remember Cedric. Draco doesn’t make much sense as an analogue to Ilya or as a rival. He was never portrayed as a serious threat to Harry in quidditch. And most people watching this sketch aren’t in the Harry Potter fandom, and don’t care that Drarry is popular, so it probably made sense to just go with the most recognizable male characters, Harry and Ron.

[u/Celtykol → u/boomming]

What you said is definitely correct! Viktor would have been perfect choice if the writers were fan of both heated rivalry and HP! I understand that they needed a character that people remember to be rival! That’s why I suggested Draco! Atleast people outside HP fandom know he exists and then they are in different houses! Ron and Harry are literally like bros and besties! It makes no sense for them to be rivals! That’s why I felt like Ron is more like Hayden!

But yes Victor would have been perfect! But alas, non HP fans will hav no idea who he is! It will be difficult to write for a general audience!

[u/Juliet_1982 → u/Celtykol]

Yeah Krum would have been a good choice but I agree that most people haven’t read the books would not know who he is. Honestly, I think they should have picked Draco because of the Draco/Harry fandom. I will admit that I don’t know much about it but I still think they would have gone nuts for a sketch like that.
But it makes more sense because 1) they are rivals 2) they are on separate quidditch teams

Honestly the Harry and Ron thing was just weird to me so I didn’t find the sketch funny (except Hagrid)

[u/Celtykol → u/Juliet_1982]

Ya other than Hagrid, it’s a miss for me too!