HARRY POTTER Movie Star Set To Reprise Role In HBO Series; Several More Key Roles Now Officially Cast

The upcoming Harry Potter TV series has enlisted an actor from the film franchise to reprise their role, while several other key characters from the books—including Crabbe and Goyle—have now been cast.

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By JoshWilding - Sep 01, 2025 08:09 AM EST

Filed Under: Harry Potter

Source: SFFGazette.com

To celebrate today's "Back to Hogwarts" celebrations, HBO's Harry Potter TV series has confirmed (via SFFGazette.com) that Warwick Davis will reprise his film role as Professor Filius Flitwick, marking his return to the Wizarding World.

The series has also cast more Hogwarts students, with Elijah Oshin as Dean Thomas, Finn Stephens as Vincent Crabbe, and William Nash as Gregory Goyle. The school's staff has added to its ranks, with Sirine Saba as Professor Pomona Sprout, Richard Durden as Professor Cuthbert Binns, and Bríd Brennan as Madam Poppy Pomfrey.

Finally, Joker star Leigh Gill will take on the role of Gringotts Bank's Griphook, a role Davis previously took on in the Harry Potter movies.

With that, the Harry Potter cast is nearly complete. A few key roles still need to be filled—the biggest is Lord Voldemort, though the plan is reportedly for him to be unveiled when the show airs—but HBO has put together an impressive ensemble that, inevitably, will be compared to what we saw in theaters from 2001 to 2011.

Does Davis' return mean we'll see more actors reprise their roles from the movies in Harry Potter when it arrives on HBO in 2027? This does feel a little like stunt casting, and is likely a one-off, but the Willow star is beloved among sci-fi and fantasy fans, so there are unlikely to be too many grumblings around his comeback.

Taking place annually on September 1, "Back to Hogwarts" is a global celebration of all things Harry Potter where fans mark the iconic return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Weigh in with your thoughts on these latest additions to the Harry Potter cast in the comments section below.

#HBO's #HarryPotter series has cast Elijah Oshin as Dean Thomas, Finn Stephens as Vincent Crabbe, William Nash as Gregory Goyle, Sirine Saba as Professor Pomona Sprout, Richard Durden as Professor Cuthbert Binns, Bríd Brennan as Madam Poppy Pomfrey, and Leigh Gill as Griphook. pic.twitter.com/wpnn4QQXZY
— Josh Wilding - ComicBookMovie.com (@Josh_Wilding) September 1, 2025

Dominic McLaughlin has been cast in the role of Harry Potter, with Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley.

Joining them will be Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Tristan Harland as Fred Weasley, Gabriel Harland as George Weasley, Ruari Spooner as Percy Weasley, Gracie Cochrane as Ginny Weasley, Leo Earley as Seamus Finnigan, Alessia Leoni as Parvati Patil, Sienna Moosah as Lavender Brown, and Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley.

Harry Potter's adult cast includes John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, Louise Brealey as Madam Rolanda Hooch, and Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch.

Joining them will be Katherine Parkinson as Molly Weasley, Johnny Flynn as Lucius Malfoy, Bel Powley as Petunia Dursley, Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley, Anton Lesser as Garrick Ollivander, and Bertie Carvel as Cornelius Fudge.

The series will be a faithful adaptation of the beloved Harry Potter book series by author and executive producer J.K. Rowling and will feature an exciting and talented cast to lead a new generation of fandom, full of the fantastic detail and much-loved characters Harry Potter fans have adored for over 25 years.

The 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 Brontë Film and TV and Warner Bros. Television. The series is executive produced by J.K. Rowling, Neil Blair, and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Brontë Film and TV, and David Heyman of Heyday Films.

Harry Potter premieres on HBO in 2027.

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SuperiorHeckler - 9/1/2025, 8:50 AM

"Warwick Davis will reprise his film role as Professor Filius Flitwick, marking his return to the Wizarding World."

Did he first remember to get Peter Dinklage's permission I wonder??? 🤔

Radders - 9/1/2025, 8:56 AM

@SuperiorHeckler - He'd have to, given Dinklage is the king of the little people 😁

WalletsClosed - 9/1/2025, 9:12 AM

Makes this show even more pointless. What's the point?

Redking77 - 9/1/2025, 9:55 AM

@WalletsClosed - To create a version more in line with the books, which the films weren’t. “The Goblet of Fire” film wasn’t even close to the book, which is sad since it was one of the best in the series.

soberchimera - 9/1/2025, 11:29 AM

@Redking77 - I have a strong feeling, it’s going to be less about faithfulness to the books and more seeing the same story, but from different characters’ perspectives that weren’t in the books like Hermione finding out she’s a witch and Hogwarts faculty meetings.

WalletsClosed - 9/1/2025, 11:32 AM

@Redking77 - The casting shows they couldn't care less about book accuracy

FinnishDude - 9/1/2025, 2:04 PM

@Redking77 - Not a very good point

Redking77 - 9/1/2025, 3:31 PM

@WalletsClosed - How so? Other than Snape, every casting is spot on. Snape seems to be the rallying cry for everyone to complain.

Redking77 - 9/1/2025, 3:33 PM

@FinnishDude - In what way is it not a good point. The movies were more interested in form than function and only followed the books on main points. It’s the difference between short form and long form storytelling. Not criticizing the movies, but they are not the books.

Redking77 - 9/1/2025, 3:34 PM

@soberchimera - Possibly, time will tell on that one.

FinnishDude - 9/1/2025, 4:04 PM

@Redking77 - Some of the best works out there are "inaccurate" adaptations of pre-existing source material. A work needs more artistic ambitions than "as accurate to the source material as possible" to be a compelling piece

Redking77 - 9/1/2025, 4:27 PM

@FinnishDude - Yes, I agree to a point. Forest Gump and Who Framed Roger Rabbit took many liberties with the source material and created award winning masterpieces. However, when you are working with incredibly beloved works such as LOTR, Harry Potter, and countless Stephen King works, you do better to not stray to far (which is unfortunately the case most of the time).

MisterBones - 9/1/2025, 9:51 AM

Rinse and repeat

TheVisionary25 - 9/1/2025, 9:52 AM

Cool!!.

I’m honestly fine with Warwick Davis reprising his role as Professor Flitwick from the films in the show since it’s just a nice homage & connection to the former (hopefully though we don’t get anymore old cast members)…

I do wonder how Flitwick will look in the show though since he has had 2 distinct looks in the films?:

Anyway , the rest look fine and seem to fit their roles!!.

SheepishOne - 9/1/2025, 10:09 AM

Those suggesting that the series isn’t different enough don’t really understand the majority of the HP fandom. They don’t want “different” as much as they want a complete adaptation closer to the books. The films, especially number three onward, cut so many significant subplots and many fan-favorite moments in favor of a shorter runtime. It’s telling when the Order of the Phoenix film is the shortest in the series while being comfortably the longest book. For context, the first movie is almost 20 minutes longer than the fifth, despite the book being less than 1/3 of the length. And a lot of what was adapted took some big creative liberties.

The HBO series isn’t supposed to be this huge departure from the movies. The entire premise is “we will adapt the stuff the movies didn’t have time to get to”.

soberchimera - 9/1/2025, 11:31 AM

@SheepishOne - Yeah, but that means this series isn’t really going to justify its existence until they get to Goblet of Fire in 2029.

Redking77 - 9/1/2025, 3:38 PM

@soberchimera - From Book 1 alone, the films left out the entire prologue, the missing witch, & Peeves the Polterguist. Not to mention they changed the Forbidden forest scenes as well as characters involved.

soberchimera - 9/1/2025, 4:41 PM

@Redking77 - It’ll be cool to see omissions like Peeves, the Deathday Party, etc. But the first 3 movies kept a LOT of the source material intact. Plus, I don’t really trust modern Hollywood with faithful adaptations anymore.

Redking77 - 9/2/2025, 12:14 PM

@soberchimera - I agree with you, they did keep a lot. I’m just hoping for a little more.

SteviesRightFoo - 9/1/2025, 10:18 AM

Could've had potential as an interesting, more book accurate take but the Snape casting kills it in the crib unfortunately

Clainer - 9/1/2025, 10:45 AM

Beyond racism why do people hate the Snape casting so much?

WalletsClosed - 9/1/2025, 11:33 AM

@Clainer - Because he looks nothing like Snape

soberchimera - 9/1/2025, 11:33 AM

@Clainer - Because it’s going to make the Potters inadvertently look like racists. James bullied him, Lily rejected him in favor of James, and Harry hates him until Deathly Hollows.

SheepishOne - 9/1/2025, 11:44 AM

@Clainer - It’s because it adds all kinds of racist subtext to interactions that otherwise just have to do with Snape being weird and ugly. Now quotes like Harry’s dad saying “I hate him for just existing” have a bit of a racist sting. And Lilly not wanting to date Snape could be seen as an interracial dating stigma, as is James bullying Snape for being interested in Lilly.

Charitable interpretations can ignore the racist subtext, but why even invite it? There’s already racism in HP that has nothing to do with skin color. Adding skin color racist subtext feels unnecessarily reductive.

Literally any other character would be fine to have a black actor than Severus Snape. Except maybe the Weasleys.

1stDalek - 9/1/2025, 2:53 PM

@Clainer - Main issue IMO is that the actor is too handsome for the role, doesn't really sell the outcast thing the character has going on, this can be partially fixed by having a more traditionally uglier kid for the flashbacks when he's in school. I do like the angle of a black half-blood man is working with the blood-purists with very unsubtle white supremacist ideas/aesthetics. I think forefronting the racist subtext can feed into his relationship with the other Death Eaters in a way that differentiates with what the films did.

I think the potential issues with the racial angle with the bullying can be fixed by casting a black and brown actors as Lupin and Wormtail, not James or Serious as being pure-blood they should be white too (since you're turning subtext into text). Same thing with having Harry and friends think he's evil from the get go, if he's the sole black teacher it gives it an undue racist angle, but cast some of other teachers with people of color and it disappears.

Redking77 - 9/1/2025, 3:40 PM

@WalletsClosed - Since we haven’t seen him in costume, we don’t actually know that. All we know is that he is African American and Snape may or may not be (which is not clear in the books). Any nationality can have sallow skin, a hooked nose, and greasy hair.

Redking77 - 9/1/2025, 3:42 PM

@soberchimera - Seeing racism whew there is none says more about the observer than the source material.

soberchimera - 9/1/2025, 4:28 PM

@Redking77 - Yes, James hanging the new Snape upside down by a tree is going to go over well…

ObserverIO - 9/1/2025, 6:20 PM

@Clainer - Apparently people are against it because they don't want people to inadvertently look like racists.

I love that irony.

BlackStar25 - 9/1/2025, 9:05 PM

@Clainer - Beyond?....Mhmmmm. I guess there is that small subsection that just wants Snape to look like he did in the movies.

WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 8:53 AM

@Redking77 - "Any nationality can have sallow skin, a hooked nose, and greasy hair."

Sure, but not every race can have those things

Redking77 - 9/2/2025, 12:16 PM

@soberchimera - It doesn’t go over well, no matter the nationality. That’s why Harry was so conflicted about who his father was and who he thought he should be.

Redking77 - 9/2/2025, 12:21 PM

@WalletsClosed - Allow me to amend. “Any nationality and race can have sallow skin, a hooked nose, and greasy hair.” Sallow skin refers to skin that has a yellowish hue due to illness or poor health. A hooked nose is a feature caused by excess or shifted cartilage (such as from a former break). Greasy hair is unclean hair. Please tell me which race is exempt.

WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 12:27 PM

@Redking77 - Show me one black person with all of those features

Redking77 - 9/2/2025, 5:12 PM

@WalletsClosed - Have you seen Flava Flav lately?

WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 6:31 PM

@Redking77 - Nope

Redking77 - 9/3/2025, 11:17 AM

@WalletsClosed - He’s not looking great. No hooked nose, but definitely sallow and unkept.

WalletsClosed - 9/3/2025, 11:43 AM

@Redking77 - That's sad. Is he sick?

Redking77 - 9/3/2025, 12:32 PM

@WalletsClosed - He looks like he’s been partying too hard for too long.

BlackStar25 - 9/1/2025, 9:06 PM

High hopes for this because it's on HBO, but just in case it's not for me, I'm glad the original movies still exist.

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HARRY POTTER Movie Star Set To Reprise Role In HBO Series; Several More Key Roles Now Officially Cast

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