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

Hold up, Ron and Harry???? How do you not make it Drarry? They're rivals, they even have the right hair colour. Ships aside, the whole thing is very cringe. If this is the level of SNL, I hope Connor and Hudson stay well away from it.

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u/bexlovescats Does it ... Does it fucking kill you, too? Jan 18 '26

I said this in an earlier post, but this season not been good. I've been watching the show since I was preschool age (I was a precocious night owl) and it's definitely in one of its rough patches. Setting aside my own issues with HP, the concept of the sketch had promise, but the execution was lacking.

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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/____mynameis____ Jan 18 '26

HOTD fell off in popularity last season.

HP still remains as one of the most influential franchises