{"id":900199,"date":"2026-10-30T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900199\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:48:09","slug":"harry-potter-hbo-series-casts-sorting-hat-nearly-headless-nick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900199\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series Casts Sorting Hat, Nearly Headless Nick"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHBO<\/a>\u2018s upcoming \u201cHarry Potter<\/a>\u201d series is casting Revelio on some more Season 1 roles. <\/p>\n

\n\tDavid Threlfall (\u201cShameless,\u201d \u201cNightsleeper\u201d) has been cast as the voice of the Sorting Hat, while Leo Bill (\u201cThe Living and the Dead,\u201d \u201cAlice in Wonderland\u201d) will play Gryffindor House ghost Nearly Headless Nick. Andrew Brooke (\u201cPhoneShop,\u201d \u201cThe Agency\u201d) will play Slytherin House ghost The Bloody Baron. Daniel Fearn (\u201cThings You Should Have Done,\u201d \u201cSlow Horses\u201d) will play The Fat Friar, house ghost for Hufflepuff. And Laura Smyth (\u201cBaby Reindeer\u201d) will play The Fat Lady, the portrait that guards the entrance to Gryffindor House. <\/p>\n

\n\tBill is repped by Curtis Brown. Brooke is repped by United Agents. Smyth is repped by United Agents. Fearn is repped by GDA Management. Threlfall is repped by Independent Talent.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 1 of the show, based on \u201cHarry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone,\u201d will debut on HBO and HBO Max on Dec. 25. It features an expansive cast, which includes: <\/p>\n

\n\tDominic 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, Anton Lesser as Garrick Ollivander, Harry Gilby as Charlie Weasley, Jasper Talbot as James Potter, and Hannah Chinn as Lily Potter.<\/p>\n

\n\tWork is already underway on Season 2, which is based on \u201cHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.\u201d New cast members already announced for that season include: Kit Harington as Gilderoy Lockhart<\/a>, 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\tSeason 1 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 author J.K. 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO\u2018s upcoming \u201cHarry Potter\u201d series is casting Revelio on some more Season 1 roles. David Threlfall (\u201cShameless,\u201d \u201cNightsleeper\u201d)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,9346,1035],"class_list":["post-900199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-potter","tag-hbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}