New 'Harry Potter' Web Series About Hermione Granger Launching Next Week

Draco's presence in Los Angeles in the Hermione Granger web series contradicts his canonical timeline in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows depicts Draco dropping off his son Scorpius Malfoy to board the Hogwarts Express, and Cursed Child establishes that Draco works alongside Hermione in the Ministry of Magic.

Juniper Diaz and LaQuita Granger, on the other hand, are original to the Hermione Granger web series and are not part of the Harry Potter canon. While the North American wizarding school Ilvermorny has never made an appearance within the Harry Potter films or books, J. K. Rowling has written at length about its history and the school is mentioned in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a 2016 film set in the Harry Potter universe.

The upcoming Harry Potter web series is produced by Sunshine Moxie Entertainment, which released a short minute-long preview trailer of Hermione Granger and the Quarter Life Crisis last week.

The trailer shows shots of Hermione's new life in Los Angeles, with plenty of subtle nods to Harry Potter - she is shown drinking a magical drink that gives her a mustache, looking disdainfully at Draco Malfoy at a party, and preparing 'No-Maj' (non-magical) meals.

The cast and crew list on the official website for the upcoming Harry Potter-based web series indicates that the only characters will be Hermione, LaQuita, Juniper, Parvati, Draco, and another character named Kang Tae Joon. If this is the full cast list, then Ron Weasley and Harry Potter will not be appearing at all.

Season 1 of the Harry Potter web series will premiere January 16, 2017.

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