It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since Hogwarts Legacy first came out.
27.01.2024 - 13:25 / gamerant.com / Harry Potter / Anakin Skywalker / Luke Skywalker / Obi Wan Kenobi
Star Wars is perhaps one of the few franchises more popular than Harry Potter, and one fan has created a legendary mashup of the two, placing Harry Potter characters in some of the original trilogy's most iconic scenes.
Star Wars: A New Hope was released in 1977, but the impact of the first trilogy can still be felt today. Aside from Lucasfilm continuing the story with new movies (including the upcoming Star Wars movie with Rey) and popular TV shows like The Mandalorian, the saga also changed the aesthetics of Hollywood films, pioneered groundbreaking VFX, and altered the way films are marketed. When the first Harry Potter movie was released nearly twenty-five years later, its Star Wars influence was apparent, and its cultural impact was just as significant.
The fan art created by @austrianpinkelephant and shared by her partner on Reddit is a crossover of the Star Wars and Harry Potter franchises, depicting Harry and the gang in three different scenes from A New Hopeand Return of the Jedi. In the first panel, the famous trash compactor scene from A New Hope meets the Devil's Snare scene from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,with Harry, Ron, and Hermione as Luke, Han, and Leia fighting to keep the Devil's Snare vines from strangling them and the walls of the compactor from crushing them. In the movies, the two scenes feel similar, both being moments of high tension, each with a ticking time-bomb trap the characters must escape.
The second panel recalls the infamous duel on Death Star II from Return of the Jedi, but instead of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, fans see Snape and Harry dueling each other, wielding red and green lightsaber wands. The image conjures up the similarities between Darth Vader and Snape; both are conflicted and believed to be evil throughout much of the story, but ultimately choose to save our heroes, Harry and Luke, in the end. Perhaps J. K. Rowling took inspiration from one of the most iconic villains of all time when she created the Severus Snape character.
The third and final panel recreated the emotional ending of Return of the Jedi. In the original scene, Luke says goodbye to his friends and family who have died, including his father, the redeemed Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader, his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Yoda, his wise alien companion. In Star Wars, the characters who have passed appear as spirits. However, in the mash-up version, Harry says goodbye to the ghosts of his father, James Potter, his mentor, Dumbledore, and his helpful house-elf companion, Dobby.
This fan art is funny and quite clever, drawing similarities between the two stories and showcasing the influence of Lucas' Star Wars on the widely acclaimed and adoredHarry Potterseries.
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It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since Hogwarts Legacy first came out.
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