{"id":948264,"date":"2026-10-27T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948264\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:52:09","slug":"harry-potter-hbo-series-casts-charlie-weasley-james-and-lily-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948264\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series Casts Charlie Weasley, James and Lily Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe \u201cHarry Potter<\/a>\u201d HBO series has cast another casting spell.<\/p>\n

\n\tHarry Gilby, Jasper Talbot and Hannah Chinn have joined the cast as Charlie Weasley, James Potter and Lily Potter, respectively. The actors will appear in Season 1 of the series, which is dubbed \u201cHarry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJames and Lily Potter, parents of the titular orphaned wizard, appeared in the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d movies in flashbacks, photographs and magical manifestations. Charlie Weasley is a minor character in the books and does not appear in the films, so the HBO series is straying from the movies regarding Ron Weasley\u2019s older brother.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first season of the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d TV show premieres on HBO on Dec. 25. The second season, based on the second book in J.K. Rowling\u2019s beloved fantasy series, \u201cHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,\u201d is currently filming at Leavesden Studios outside London.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe logline for Season 1 reads, \u201cThere is nothing special about Harry Potter \u2014 or so his Aunt Petunia tells him. But when a mysterious letter of admission to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry arrives, it opens the door to a hidden world of magic, friendship and adventure. Yet behind Hogwarts\u2019 enchanted walls lie dark secrets. Harry must find the courage to prove himself against the darkest wizard of all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHarry Potter\u201d stars Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Leo Earley as Seamus Finnigan, Elijah Oshin as Dean Thomas, Tristan Harland as Fred Weasley, Gabriel Harland as George Weasley, Ruari Spooner as Percy Weasley, Alessia Leoni as Parvati Patil, Sienna Moosah as Lavender Brown, Finn Stephens as Vincent Crabbe, William Nash as Gregory Goyle, Warwick Davis as Filius Flitwick, Sirine Saba as Pomona Sprout, Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley, Bel Powley as Petunia Dursley, Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch, Johnny Flynn as Lucius Malfoy, Bertie Carvel as Cornelius Fudge, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, Katherine Parkinson as Molly Weasley, Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, Gracie Cochrane as Ginny Weasley, Richard Durden as Cuthbert Binns, Louise Brealey as Rolanda Hooch, Br\u00edd Brennan as Poppy Pomfrey, Leigh Gill as Griphook and Anton Lesser as Garrick Ollivander.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d favorite Kit Harington <\/a>will join Season 2 as Gilderoy Lockhart alongside Bonnie Hill as Ginny Weasley, Lenny Rush as Dobby, Billy Barratt as Tom Riddle, Rafe Spall as Arthur Weasley, Molly Hewitt-Richards as Moaning Myrtle and Jasper Ambrose as Colin Creevey.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cHarry Potter\u201d series is written and executive produced by Francesca Gardiner. Mark Mylod will executive produce and direct multiple episodes of the series for HBO in association with Bront\u00eb Film and TV and Warner Bros. Television. The series is executive produced by Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Bront\u00eb Film and TV, David Heyman of Heyday Films, Laura Neal and Jon Brown.<\/p>\n

\n\tGilby is represented by Independent Talent Group and Untitled Entertainment. Talbot is represented by United Agents. Chinn is represented by 42.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cHarry Potter\u201d HBO series has cast another casting spell. Harry Gilby, Jasper Talbot and Hannah Chinn have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,4199,337],"class_list":["post-948264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-potter","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}