{"id":131295,"date":"2025-09-12T02:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131295\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T02:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:58:08","slug":"kit-harington-among-big-names-to-join-harry-potter-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131295\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit Harington among big names to join Harry Potter series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Kit Harington, a Worcestershire schoolboy turned Hollywood megastar, is among the big names to join in Audible&#8217;s Harry Potter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Game of Thrones Star will be playing the iconic role of Professor Lockhart &#8211; the temporary Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts and famous author.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Harrington will join Keira Knightley, Ruth Wilson, and Iwan Rheon, who will lend their voices to the Audible series.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Harington moved with his family to the outskirts of Worcestershire, in Whitbourne, when he was 11 and attended the Chantry School in Martley, as well as Worcester Sixth Form College.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His vast array of roles also includes the How to Train Your Dragon films, as well as Gunpowder and Pompeii.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The actor regularly travels back to Worcestershire to visit family and friends and has previously been reported to follow the Worcester Warriors and shares a fond love of the cathedral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kit Harington, a Worcestershire schoolboy turned Hollywood megastar, is among the big names to join in Audible&#8217;s Harry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-131295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}