Harry, Hermione and Ron are cast for Harry Potter TV series

NEW YORK – Accio Harry, Hermione and Ron!

After years of intense speculation and tens of thousands of auditions, three young actors have been cast for HBO’s upcoming television series about the boy wizard.

Newcomers Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton and Alastair Stout will play Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, Warner Bros Discovery announced on May 27.

In April,

HBO announced

it had cast American actor John Lithgow as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry’s headmaster Albus Dumbledore, as well as British actors Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape and Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid.

The show, which will air on HBO and stream on Max, still does not have an official title or air date.

“The talent of these three unique actors is wonderful to behold, and we cannot wait for the world to witness their magic together onscreen,” Francesca Gardiner, the showrunner of the series, and Mark Mylod, who will direct several episodes, said in a statement about the child actors.

They added: “It’s been a real pleasure to discover the plethora of young talent out there.”

This is Arabella’s first on-screen role, but she previously starred in Matilda on London’s West End in 2023. She was one of four girls who played the title role.

The Harry Potter film franchise accelerated the career of English actor Daniel Radcliffe, who has since anchored movies such as Swiss Army Man (2016) and won a Tony Award in 2024 for his work in the musical Merrily We Roll Along.

Radcliffe starred in eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011, alongside English actors Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, who played Hermione and Ron.

HBO has said the new television series will be a “faithful adaptation” of the seven books written by British author J.K. Rowling that were published between 1997 and 2007. NYTIMES