Manga Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley by yuina19

I finished DH in 8.45 hours and, wow, just wow. I simply cannot wait to see this book on the big screen! Merlin’s Beard, I’m so stoked! I also saw Order of the Phoenix this past Saturday and once again, wow.

But, you know, a lot of stuff got left out of the last movie. And that’s understandable since lordee knows, the books are frick’n epic. Fortunately, I have a solution for this dilemma; Harry Potter manga!

It’s a great idea and, there’s precedent for it in the way of Star Wars manga, Wizard of Oz manga, and even a sequel manga to Labyrinth. These are all well-loved American films that have a sizable fan base and cult-followings; just like Harry Potter.

If HP gets made into a manga, fans’ll get more fleshed out visuals than the movies (though the movies are brilliant) and we’ll get to see our fave HP characters manga-ized.

On my favorite artist community, deviantART, there’s a ton of manga style fan-art of the Harry Potter crew. Especially of the bad boys of the series; Lucius, Draco, and everyone’s fave troubled-soul poster-child, Snape.

There’s even disturbing/ hilarious HP yaoi of DracoxHarry and SnapexLucius. HP chibis also abound on DA. In my opinion, HP has already taken its first step down the manga path.

Chibi Severus Snape: A possible candidate for the Harry Potter Manga?

So after deciding that HP manga is indeed a good idea, I began to ponder who should actually draw the manga. One possibility that came to mind was CLAMP. It’s a good idea, and yet, a bad idea. Good in the sense that CLAMP has a fan-following and people will read it because they’re fans of CLAMP and like their style. However, CLAMP also has a reputation for it’s shoujo style and that might turn off potential readers. That would be the bad part.

I think that an artistic style that’s neither shoujo nor shonen is the way to go for a Harry Potter manga. A style that’s too soft might only attract women and turn off male readers. A style that’s too shonen wouldn’t even fit into the HP’s style. A happy balance of the two would be a great comprise.

Also, I think a HP manga will kill two birds with one stone in terms of satiating the fan-girl’s demand for more Harry/ Draco/ Snape/ Lucius/ whoever and have them done in their fave bishie style (I fear for Lucius however; how much more femme can that guy get and still be a dude? Let’s face it, bishie-fy him and he’s a chick).

All around I think a Harry Potter manga is a smashing idea. Who else thinks so? Are you a fan of merging HP and manga? Who else wants Harry Potter manga?!

*Harry Potter Group is property of yuina19
**Chibi Severus Snape property of auroreblackcat