'Harry Potter' Actress Miriam Margolyes Thinks Adult Fans Should Stop Loving The Series: 'It's For Children'

"Harry Potter" actress Miriam Margolyes thinks that if you’re not a high-school student and you’re still waiting on your Hogwarts letter, you need a strong dose of reality.

Margolyes made a brief appearance as "Professor Sprout" in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," the second of eight films in the iconic cinema franchise. The series became a worldwide phenomenon in the early 2000s, and captured the hearts of millions of people.

But the actress claimed in an interview with New Zealand’s 1News that too many fans - who are now way too old to enroll at Hogwarts - should flat-out stop enjoying the franchise.

"I worry about Harry Potter fans because they should be over that by now," Margolyes said. "It was 25 years ago, and it's for children.I think it's for children."

Before you think she’s being a curmudgeon, she does have more reason than most to make this claim. She said that she will occasionally record videos on Cameo for couples having a Harry Potter-themed wedding, which she finds troubling.

"They get stuck in it," she said. "I do Cameos, and people say, 'We're having a Harry Potter-themed wedding, and I think, 'Gosh, what's their first night of fun going to be?' I can't even think about it. No."

Gosh, I don’t want to think about it either now that you mention it.

She’s also said in the past that she’s never read the books and isn’t a fan of the movies. No wonder she has such a strong opinion about people who continue to love Harry Potter.

As a diehard "Lord of the Rings" fan, I take some level of pleasure in someone telling people to temper their excitement about the Harry Potter series. After all, if you are going to heavily invest in a fantasy world, Middle Earth is superior in every way. 

Who would want to