"As those descriptions-and the furtive glances exchanged by last night's host, Finn Wolfhard, and the SNL cast member Ben Marshall, playing Potter and Ron Weasley-implied, a page-to-screen sensation of a more recent vintage was also being spoofed. Count SNL's writers among the many HBO Max watchers who have jumped on the Heated Rivalry bandwagon, giving us the pretaped sketch "Heated Wizardry," an elaborate, meme-ready mash-up of J. K. Rowling's wizarding world and the streaming show based on Rachel Reid's hockey-themed gay romance series."
"For "Heated Wizardry" to land, viewers had to have at least a passing familiarity with each story's component parts: the enemies-turned-lovers arc of Reid's protagonists, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov; the broad strokes of Rowling's boarding school for magical kids. Fans of the former could get a kick out of seeing Wolfhard and Marshall in saucy stretching poses previously struck by the Heated Rivalry stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams. Fans of the latter could enjoy the realization of online fan-fiction fantasies pairing Harry with his best friend."
"The most telling joke rested in a fake blurb from the equally fake website Hornymuggles.net-"Finally, finally, yes!"-mocking the unwavering attachment of Harry Potter fans. The seventh and final Potter novel was published in 2007, and the eight-part film franchise it inspired wrapped in 2011. But in today's TV and movie env"
SNL produced a pretaped sketch titled "Heated Wizardry" that merges J. K. Rowling's wizarding world with the HBO Max series Heated Rivalry. Finn Wolfhard and Ben Marshall portray Harry and Ron in a sketch that leans on viewers' familiarity with Heated Rivalry's enemies-turned-lovers arc and Harry Potter boarding-school lore. The sketch deploys fan-fiction tropes and visual callbacks: saucy stretching poses, canoodling under an invisibility cloak, barely coded sexts sent by owl, and Jason Momoa as Hagrid. A fake Hornymuggles.net blurb satirizes enduring Potter fandom and its persistent cultural presence.
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