The first HBO Harry Potter trailer is here, and it's nothing like the beloved film franchise... and we promise that's a good thing.
In the trailer, which you can watch above, we meet a sad, bullied Harry Potter who gets his hair crudely chopped off by Petunia Dursley... and it looks like, rather than jump right into his adventures at Hogwarts, we're going to spend a bit more time in his hellish existence in the muggle realm at the hands of his aunt and uncle and their terrible child Dudley. The most striking thing may just be that the TV series doesn't seem to have the outwardly fantastical, dark, Tim Burton-y vibe as the film franchise. There is no choir of children singing "Something Wicked This Way Comes," or a Halloween-y flair to the interior of Hogwarts. The emphasis, at least in the trailer, seems to be on Harry's growth and emotional journey... which is an intriguing take, nonetheless.
