{"id":366405,"date":"2026-03-26T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/366405\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:35:12","slug":"harry-potter-trailer-for-new-tv-series-released-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/366405\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter trailer for new TV series released \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trailer has been released for the much-anticipated new Harry Potter<\/a> TV series, showing the young wizard with his friends Hermione and Ron as they travel on the Hogwarts Express.<\/p>\n

The first series will be launched at Christmas on HBO Max<\/a>, it reveals.<\/p>\n

Opening with scenes of Harry in the home he shares with his muggle aunt and uncle, his aunt Petunia \u2013 played by Bel Powley \u2013 tells him: \u201cYou think you\u2019re something special?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing special about you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trailer then cuts to Harry, played by young actor Dominic McLaughlin, at a railway station with friendly groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid, played by Nick Frost.<\/p>\n

Harry is seen running with a trolley laden with suitcases towards Platform 9 and 3\/4, before a shot of the Hogwarts Express pulling into a station.<\/p>\n

The trailer then shows Harry looking on in awe after arriving at Hogwarts, and walking on to the quidditch pitch and having a snowball fight with other pupils.<\/p>\n

It also briefly shows a delighted Hagrid lying on his back on the ground making snow angels.<\/p>\n

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Set to rousing music, which builds until the last scene, viewers finally see Harry, Hermoine and Ron on the Hogwarts Express at the end of the trailer.<\/p>\n

Ron, played by Alastair Stout, asks: \u201cAre you really Harry Potter?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BelBel Powley as Petunia Durlsey and Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley in the new HBO Max Harry Potter series. Photograph: Aidan Monaghan\/HBO Max\/PA Wire <\/p>\n

Harry shyly nods, leading Ron to make a sign with his fingers on his forehead in recognition of the young wizard\u2019s famous scar.<\/p>\n

The first season of the HBO show was adapted from JK Rowling\u2019s first novel, Harry Potter And The Philosopher\u2019s Stone.<\/p>\n

Further seasons will feature her other novels, with Rowling acting as an executive producer.<\/p>\n

Hermoine is played by Arabella Stanton after a casting call saw about 32,000 children audition for the three lead roles, with the team reviewing up to 1,000 tapes a day.<\/p>\n

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Also among the cast will be Paapa Essiedu as Professor Severus Snape and US star John Lithgow as Hogwarts headmaster Professor Albus Dumbledore.<\/p>\n

\"AlastairAlastair Stout as Ron Weasley, Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter and Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, in the new HBO Max Harry Potter series. Photograph: Aidan Monaghan\/HBO Max\/PA Wire <\/p>\n

Ozark actress Janet McTeer will star as Professor Minerva McGonagall, British stage actor Luke Thallon will play the first book\u2019s main antagonist Quirinus Quirrell, and comedian Paul Whitehouse will play the magic-less Hogwarts School of Witchcraft And Wizardry caretaker Argus Filch.<\/p>\n

Warwick Davis will return to Hogwarts to reprise his film role as Professor Filius Flitwick.<\/p>\n

\u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trailer has been released for the much-anticipated new Harry Potter TV series, showing the young wizard with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,3284,61,60,15715,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-366405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hbo","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jk-rowling","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}