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Credit: Warner Bros.The Harry Potter TV series set for HBO has now announced nine more actors in addition to the ones previously revealed, bringing the total to 18. The latest casting fills roles such as Molly Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy, and the Dursleys.
Per the official website HarryPotter.com, here are the new cast members and their respective wizarding world characters, in no particular order:
- Katherine Parkinson — Molly Weasley
- Lox Pratt — Draco Malfoy
- Johnny Flynn — Lucius Malfoy
- Leo Early — Seamus Finnigan
- Alessia Leoni — Parvati Patil
- Sienna Moosah — Lavender Brown
- Bel Powley — Petunia Dursley
- Daniel Rigby — Vernon Dursley
- Bertie Carvel — Cornelius Fudge
Nine new cast members is a lot to take in in one go. Not only that, but we’re still processing the first round of actors! It’s also going to be difficult for Harry Potter fans to accept new actors into these roles when the likes of Tom Felton, Jason Isaacs, Julie Walters, and the late Alan Rickman, to name a few, have become synonymous with their on-screen counterparts.
Either way, these latest additions join John Lithgow (Albus Dumbledore), Janet McTeer (Minerva McGonagall), Paapa Essiedu (Severus Snape), Nick Frost (Rubeus Hagrid), Luke Thallon (Quirinus Quirrell), and Paul Whitehouse (Argus Filch), along with the main trio, Dominic McLaughlin (Harry Potter), Arabella Stanton (Hermione Granger), and Alastair Stout (Ron Weasley). Click here to view a collage of the newly announced cast members.
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About the New HBO Harry Potter Series
The new Harry Potter series is touted as a “faithful adaptation” of the seven books by J.K. Rowling. Spanning seven seasons (one per book) across a 10-year period, it will premiere on HBO sometime in 2026, although no narrower release window has been confirmed.
Production is set to begin sometime this summer.
Francesca Gardiner (Succession, His Dark Materials) is writer/showrunner and an executive producer, Mark Mylod (Game of Thrones, The Last of Us) will executive-produce and direct multiple episodes, and J.K. Rowling is also an executive producer, along with Neil Blair, and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Brontë Film and TV, and David Heyman of Heyday Films.
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