Game of Horcruxes: What If George Martin Wrote Harry Potter?
Harry Potter and Game of Thrones have very little in common: apart from the fact that both series have magic, there's pretty much nothing else similar about them.
Harry Potter was initially created for children and teenagers, whereas Game of Thrones is a dark fantasy for adult audiences.
The differences between the two series are too obvious to even discuss.
But Reddit users came up with an interesting topic: what would've come out of the Harry Potter franchise if it was written by George R.R. Martin, on whose books Game of Thrones was filmed?
Multiple POVs
In the original Harry Potter series, we only had someone else's point of view a few times. In GRRM's version, we would've followed multiple characters all the time.
Imagine how much we could've learned by getting the POV of Draco, Dumbledore, Hermione, Snape, and Arthur Weasley.
Immense brutality
People would've started dying and getting severely hurt way earlier than in JK's series.
Devastating troll and basilisk attacks, casualties in the Triwizard Tournament, dead and mangled students after the Ministry and Hogwarts attack…
Yeap, it would've been brutal, and we would've lost many characters early on.
Adult topics
The original Harry Potter was pretty innocent: Ron's Uranus joke and Harry's vague fantasies about Ginny doing "inappropriate things" were the peak of adult content in the series.
But we know GRRM, and since we would've got multiple POVs… We would've known many things we would've preferred not to.
For goodness' sake
While we're at it, there was another thing one too many fans claimed during the discussion. Judging from what's going on in Game of Thrones…
Let's put it this way: at the end of the series, we would've likely noticed that Harry and Ginny's kids all have red hair. And we're definitely not going to go deeper into this subject.
Still in works
GRRM's reputation is really something else. The vast majority of answers claimed that if George Martin was Harry Potter's author, we still wouldn't have had the entire story out.
Most likely, he would've gotten stuck halfway through The Half-Blood Prince and decided that it was way cooler to write a spin-off about Sir Cadougan and Merlin instead.