Harry Potter is getting a new lease on life with another film, with the hopes it will spark a spin-off series.

Okay, that’s a blatant lie… Any excuse to reference Futurama. I do have strong feelings, I’m just not really sure what those feelings are quite yet.

First, little bit of background on what’s going on. Harry Potter had seven books in the series. This was turned into eight movies, with the final book being split in two: Deathly Hallows I: All Camping All the Time and Deathly Hallows II: Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies (Especially Fred).

But JK Rowling has also written three books for charity. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them and Quidditch Through the Ages were released at the same time, to benefit the British charity Comic Relief. The Tales of Beetle the Bard benefitted the Children’s High Level Group.

While Fantastic Beasts is the book everyone is talking about, I think it’s important to address all three of them. Warner Brothers hopes to make a series, which suggests to me all three books are up for film fodder.

I own copies of all three books. I enjoyed all three books. There is one problem: None of them are really movie material.

The Tales of Beetle the Bard already got some play in the movies. The Tale of the Three Brothers was narrated by Hermione in Deathly Hallows Part Two (or was it Part One? Oh wait, I stopped caring after Sirius died) with some very cool animation on it. The book could still be adapted, but I see it more as a six-part mini-series, an episode per story, a la Jim Henson’s Storyteller, except with wizard tales in place of European fairy tales.

But Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as movies? No, I can’t really see it.

Both books are miniscule, a little over 100 pages. And they’re small pages at that. The books are supposed to be textbooks from Hogwarts. Quidditch Through the Ages is a library book chronicling the history of the Wizarding World’s greatest (and basically only) sport. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a textbook owned by Harry Potter, with graffiti in the margins from both Harry and Ron.

I suppose I should focus my attention on Fantastic Beasts, since that is the book that has been announced as being filmed. It is a small guide to magical animals. It gives an outline of magical animals and some history on how the Ministry of Magic handles beasts. It then gets into an encyclopaedia, describing the animals, their interactions with wizards and their danger levels.

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The movie will be based around Newt Scamander, the “author” of Fantastic Beasts. JK Rowling has supplied a bit of information about him in interviews and on her websites. He was a Hufflepuff who had what sounds like a pretty boring career knocking about various beast related departments in the Ministry of Magic. His grandson eventually married Luna Lovegood.

Not exactly leading man material… Although points for a Hufflepuff lead. I also suppose short, bespectacled orphan boy doesn’t exactly scream action hero.

I don’t think a movie based on a man obsessed with magical creatures is necessarily a bad idea. In fact, I think The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr Spencer Black would make a wonderful and terrifying movie (for those who don’t know the book, get it. The story of Dr Black is delightfully creepy and the Grey’s Anatomy-like drawings of the beasts are excellent).

I know people are also excited that JK Rowling is writing the script for this herself. However, this gives me pause for two reasons.

The first is I think the most obvious: JK Rowling is not a script writer. She has written nine novels, one short story anthology and two fictional textbooks. There is nothing in her history that suggests she will be adept at writing a script, which is very different than she is used to. This is compounded by the fact that her books had a tendancy to be very wordy. Brevity is very important when it comes to scripts. One only has to look at the number of cuts in the Harry Potter movies to see that she writes a lot more than can fit in a film.

The second reason is a bit more esoteric. It was one of the first things that came to my mind, but that’s because I’m a sucker for world-building. JK Rowling has said she’s excited about being able to explore another part of the Wizarding World outside of Harry’s story. She has said she knows so much more than she was able to fit into the books.

This kind of minutiae is not a bad thing. It helps flesh out the characters and makes them seem more real. But it’s not something that necessarily needs to be shared. It’s also not something that necessarily makes for a good story. It is minutiae because it’s not particularly important. When you have someone who is so in love with their own universe that they know every nook and cranny, you can get a bloated script with listless direction, because the writer is focusing on the small details without looking at the big picture.

I know it sounds like I’m being overly critical, but that’s really not it. I’d love for Fantastic Beasts to be a successful movie. I am a Harry Potter fan and I think there are things outside of Harry’s story that are worth telling. But because of the reasons mentioned above, I’m holding out judgement. I’m not going to get too excited about things.

I think Warner Brothers is missing the Harry Potter business they had for ten years. That’s tough for them to let go of. The fact that they called this new movie the start of a spin-off series makes that clear. They’re looking for the calf to replace the former cash cow. But can the story of an animal-loving wizard who writes textbooks really stand up to an epic battle of good versus evil?

I suppose it’s better than an inspirational sports movie called Remember the Kestrals… Or would it be The Bad News Cannons?