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‘Stranger Things’ Hopes To Become The Next ‘Harry Potter’


We’ve been watching Netflix’s Stranger Things all summer. Lol jk, we binge-watched the entire first season in one day and just haven’t stopped talking about it since.

Although the show hasn’t been renewed for a second season yet, we’re confident that it will happen because we just won’t accept any  other alternative. We’ve already grown too attached—we’d be lying if we didn’t say the number 11 now triggers all sorts of emotions. As we keep our eyes out for another season, The Duffer Brothers (aka the brilliant creators behind the show) shared their thoughts on an ideal course for the show —and it involves Harry Potter.

According to Matt Duffer, if the show is renewed for season two, you can expect to see the same familiar faces return. “The dream is a Harry Potter situation,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I love watching kids growing up on camera. So the idea seeing where these kids and these characters are one year later is cool to me. And it allows us to explore the mythology of our nether.”

If the popularity and success of Stranger Things continues, there definitely is a possibility that we will see the young stars grow up right before our eyes—as was the case for the HP stars. 

Olivia Singh is currently a senior at Hunter College in New York City, majoring in Media Studies. Her concentration is Journalism and she is a Pop Culture Blogger for HerCampus.com. Music, movies, television, and pop culture in general are her areas of expertise. She’s that one friend who knows just about every detail of the latest news story in the entertainment world. Close friends rave about her storytelling skills, so she can only hope that other people will enjoy her writing as much as she enjoys telling a good story. When she isn't scrolling through her plethora of social media sites, she can be found cuddling with her cat, playing the piano, obsessing over boybands, or eating a cupcake.