I think like most literature that is appreciated more as the written word and the readers’ imagination that games will never really take off. I rather doubt an MMO or RPG would work in the long term for the setting & characters of that world. The games are hampered by being made for teens as well. Can you make an M-Rated (R-Rated) Harry Potter? Sure, but I rather doubt JKR allow it despite the fact her book series deals with threat, evil, and even death. Tween worlds are always riding that razors edge of threat without going over, but where is the threat if in the game were you want player action to matter?
You cannot say, "Whoops we killed Ron," that simply is not allowed. In a game you cannot say, "In my game play Harry and Hermione Granger are in love." So where is the FUN and game play? Where is the game action with consequence when you have 'life on the line' without death?
This is not just an issue with these books either. Eventually, game will have to say to other mediums, "Sorry YOUR rules of narrative cannot matter in the game." They will have to say, "In the LotR game Strider/Aragorn can die in Bree and the Hobbits have to run away on their own to meet another helpful character." or in the Maltese Falcon video game, "Sam Spade shoots Joel Cairo the first time he meets him because that is how the player did it." Games are about player agency, and only now are game developers exploring that idea where the only action that ends the game is everyone that matters being dead or out of the action.
That is the only Harry Potter game I would play, where I choose what my character does and does not do. I would only enter an MMO Potter game where I can do anything up to and including slitting Harry's creamy white throat, flirting with Hermione Granger, or using magic to turn Ron into a girl.
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