Overview
- A Jan. 17 pre-taped sketch titled “Heated Wizardry” reimagined Harry Potter as a mash-up with the buzzy queer hockey drama Heated Rivalry, with Finn Wolfhard as Harry and Ben Marshall as Ron.
- The faux trailer explicitly aged the characters to 18+, leaned on sexual innuendo and Quidditch gags, and included owl-message flirtations and locker-room humor.
- Jason Momoa made a surprise appearance as Hagrid delivering the punch line “You’re a homo, Harry,” and a fake on-screen J. K. Rowling blurb read, “I am not a part of this.”
- The parody nodded to HBO’s planned Harry Potter TV adaptation and to Heated Rivalry’s breakout status on Crave/HBO Max, which has already secured a second season.
- Online reaction was split, with praise for the satire and production values, criticism of using the Potter universe given Rowling’s views, and complaints that the sketch paired Harry with Ron rather than rival Draco Malfoy.