It was way back in 2011 that the Harry Potter franchise ended, and while we've since had three Fantastic Beasts movies (two of which were not good), the Boy Wizard won't take centre stage again until Max's streaming reboot rolls around.
Despite his lengthy absence from our screens, Warner Bros. continues to produce and sell a vast array of merchandise based on the characters created by author J.K. Rowling. However, one of those appears to have gotten the studio in trouble.
According to TMZ, an angry mother is suing the studios after a replica Harry Potter wand allegedly injured her toddler's eye. According to the site, "Jessica Perry says she bought a 'Potter' replica wand with a light-up pen function from a store and gave it to her kids...only for it to end up impaling her 3-year-old's eye."
This is said to have happened when her older son was waving the wand around, only for the "metal writing portion of the pen" to fly off and hit the younger child in the eye.
Tragically, the pen ruptured the child's eyeball, almost blinding him and resulting in at least two rounds of surgery. The mother believes the wand was defective and is arguing that Warner Bros. should have done something about it due to there being at least, er, one online review describing a similar incident.
The lawsuit goes so far as to claim that the eyedrops the child uses make him scream in agony and that he's been left terrified by having to wear an eyepatch. In fact, it goes on to claim that he needs to protect his retina to the extent that he can no longer play sports or live a normal life.
All in all, that likely explains why the woman is looking for a whopping $8 million in damages! Here's a closer look at the offending item:
This lawsuit obviously won't do anything to derail plans for the aforementioned Harry Potter reboot and we're expecting a young trio of newcomers to be cast as Harry, Ron, and Hermoine. Cameo appearances from Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint would be fun, albeit potentially distracting, and the original Boy Wizard recently confirmed he has no interest in showing up on Max!
"My understanding is that they're trying to very much start fresh and I'm sure whoever is making them will want to make their own mark on it and probably not want to have to figure out how to get old Harry to cameo in this somewhere," Radcliffe explained. "So I'm definitely not seeking it out in any way."
"But I do wish them, obviously, all the luck in the world and I'm very excited to have that torch passed. But I don't think it needs me to physically pass it."
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