{"id":265351,"date":"2025-07-14T22:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265351\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:42:10","slug":"first-look-at-glasgow-boy-as-harry-potter-as-more-beloved-characters-revealed-for-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/265351\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at Glasgow boy as Harry Potter as more beloved characters revealed for new series"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE new star of the upcoming Harry Potter TV spin-off has been pictured in character for the first time.<\/p>\n

Dominic McLaughlin, 11, was announced in May as the chosen candidate<\/a> to play the boy wizard in the HBO<\/a> adaptation.<\/p>\n

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Dominic McLaughlin as Harry PotterCredit: AP\"Portrait<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rory Wilmot will appear as the character Neville LongbottomCredit: HBO\"Louise<\/a><\/p>\n

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Louise Brealey will play Madam Rolanda HoochCredit: HBO\/Phil Sharp<\/p>\n

The young Scot is the second person to perform the iconic role after Daniel Radcliffe first appeared on cinema screens as the boy who lived in 2001.<\/p>\n

Dominic has been photographed dressed in Harry’s<\/a> Hogwarts uniform, including robe and Gryffindor knitted jumper.<\/p>\n

The schoolboy was also pictured wearing the Boy Who Lived’s famous round glasses and the iconic lightning bolt scar on his forehead as he held a clapperboard.<\/p>\n

Filming has kicked off this week at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in Watford, Hertfordshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The production, based on JK Rowling’s<\/a> beloved kids books, will run for around 10 years and is expected to air on HBO and HBO Max in 2027.<\/p>\n

More than 32,000 children auditioned for the lead roles in the new series.<\/p>\n

Dominic, who studied at Performance Academy Scotland, has already appeared in a stage adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.<\/p>\n

He performed in the production alongside acting icon Ralph Fiennes<\/a>, 62, who portrayed Voldemort in the films.<\/p>\n

Arabella Stanton Alastair Stout will play Harry’s friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley respectively.<\/p>\n

New roles have also been announced, with Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, Louise Brealey as Madam Rolanda Hooch, and Anton Lesser as Garrick Ollivander.<\/p>\n

Harry Potter legend breaks his silence as replacement cast in HBO TV series <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, other castings include John Lithgow as Professor Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as McGonagall, Nick Frost as Hagrid, Paapa Essiedu as Snape, Luke Thallon as Quirrell, and Paul Whitehouse as Filch.<\/p>\n

Johnny Flynn will\u00a0also play the villainous Lucius Malfoy,<\/a>\u00a0replacing Jason Isaacs in his iconic movie role.<\/p>\n

The show has been previously described as a “faithful adaptation” of the novels by author and executive producer JK Rowling.<\/p>\n

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Amos Kitson will portray Dudley DursleyCredit: HBO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE new star of the upcoming Harry Potter TV spin-off has been pictured in character for the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[192,101260,748,918,4884,8082,2308,11764,556,451,712,205,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-265351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-books-and-reading","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-glasgow","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-harry-potter","14":"tag-hbo","15":"tag-jk-rowling","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-netflix","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-section-tvnews-tv","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114854006004167699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}