From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World

The Transfiguration of a Franchise

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by Cassie Brummitt

Type

Studies

Subject

One Film > Harry Potter

Keywords

Harry Potter, franchise

Publishing date

2025 (October 30, 2025)

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 232 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-3995-4818-2

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Book Presentation:
The Harry Potter franchise is not confined to just the page or the screen, but has been and continues to be reimagined and reconfigured through a number of extratextual products, texts, and experiences which surround and rework the Harry Potter texts. This book centres around the 2010s, or the ‘post-Potter era’, a period of unprecedented growth and reinvention for the franchise. Many of the franchising developments produced during this time operated according to distinct strategies: to consolidate the legacy of the Harry Potter series, or to extend the fictional universe into new settings, media and cultural forms. This book explores six such developments - J.K. Rowling’s authorship, the website Pottermore, the ‘Wizarding World of Harry Potter’ theme parks, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Watford, the Fantastic Beasts films, and the stageplay Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – to shine a spotlight on a franchise in flux.

About the Author:
Cassie Brummitt is Assistant Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is author of “Pottermore: Transmedia Storytelling and Authorship in Harry Potter” in the Midwest Quarterly (2016, vol 4) and ‘’Friends? Always.’: Queerbaiting, Erasure, and Ambiguity in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’, in Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities (edited by Joseph Brennan). Her research interests include screen marketing and promotion, contemporary media franchising, and the cinema industry.

Press Reviews:
From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World is a salient, long overdue analysis of the wealth and breadth of the story world in the post-book era, covering everything from online platformPottermore, to its presence in Universal theme parks, the Studio Tour in Leavesden, the Cursed Child stage play, as well as the fledging Fantastic Beasts film series. Cassie Brummitt also convinces by reckoning with Rowling’s authorial control over the franchise, ever more important in light of her hateful and controversial presence in recent years. ― Sabrina Mittermeier, author of A Cultural History of Disneyland Theme Parks

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press