Here are the new Harry Potter cast members side by side with the actors who played the characters in the Warner Bros. movies.
Harry Potter played by Daniel Radcliffe (left) and newcomer Dominic McLaughlin.
Everett Collection; Aidan Monaghan/HBO
It’s been only 14 years since Warner Bros. released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, yet a fresh adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s massively popular novels is now filming.
HBO has started production on a TV series version of the Harry Potter saga, with each book following the boy wizard’s Hogwarts journey being adapted into a full season. The major roles from Rowling’s first novel — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — has been recast with different actors than those who played the characters in the Warner Bros. films. The adult actors are often much younger than their film counterparts, as the show is sticking closer to the characters’ ages in the books.
Below are all the actors who have been announced, with photos showing them side by side with their film version counterparts. A few significant roles have yet to be revealed — such as who will play Lord Voldemort, who arrives near the very end of first book.
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Hermione Granger
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Courtesy of Aidan Monaghan/HBO Movies: Emma Watson / Show: Arabella Stanton
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Ron Weasley
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Aidan Monaghan/HBO Movies: Rubert Grint / Show: Alastair Stout
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Harry Potter
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Aidan Monaghan/HBO Movies: Daniel Radcliffe / Show: Dominic McLaughlin
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Headmaster Albus Dumbledore
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Jessica Howes (Or, if we’re being formal about things: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore).
The first two movies: Richard Harris / Show: John Lithgow
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Professor Minerva McGonagall
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Andrew Cowley Movies: Maggie Smith / Show: Janet McTeer
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Professor Severus Snape
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Ruth Crafer Movies: Alan Rickman / Show: Paapa Essiedu
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Gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Aidan Monaghan/HBO Movies: Robbie Coltrane / Show: Nick Frost
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Molly Weasley
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Courtesy Movies: Julie Walters / Show: Katherine Parkinson
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Draco Malfoy
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Carla Worden Movies: Tom Felton / Show: Lox Pratt
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Lucius Malfoy
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Autumn DeWilde Movies: Jason Isaacs / Show: Johnny Flynn
Lucius doesn’t appear in the first Harry Potter film (or book), but he’s one of a few characters that are among the first season’s cast that don’t show up until later in the film series (others include Parvati Patil and Cornelius Fudge).
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Neville Longbottom
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Courtesy Movies: Matthew Lewis / Show: Rory Wilmot
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Dudley Dursley
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Courtesy Movies: Harry Melling / Show: Amos Kitson
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Madam Rolanda Hooch
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Phil Sharp Movies: Zoe Wanamaker / Show: Louise Brealey
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Garrick Ollivander
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Asia Werbel Movies: John Hurt / Show: Anton Lesser
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Seamus Finnigan
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Courtesy Movies: Devon Murray / Show: Leo Earley
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Parvati Patil
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Courtesy Movies: Shefali Chowdhury and Alessia Leoni
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Petunia Dursley
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Brian Daly Movies: Fiona Shaw / Show: Bel Powley
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Vernon Dursley
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Faye Thomas Movies: Richard Griffiths / Show: Daniel Rigby
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Minister Cornelius Fudge
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Courtesy of Subject Movies: Robert Hardy / Show: Bertie Carvel
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Professor Quirinus Quirrell
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Phil Sharp Movies: Ian Hart / Show: Luke Thallon
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Caretaker Argus Filch
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Mike Marsland Movies: David Bradley / Show: Paul Whitehouse
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Lily Potter
Image Credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage Movies: Geraldine Somerville / Show: TBA
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James Potter
Image Credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage Movies: Adrian Rawlins / Show: TBA (but we do know that both Lily and James will be closer to the ages in the books — 21 — than the actors in the films)
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Lord Voldemort
Image Credit: Everett Collection; Getty Images Movies: Ralph Fiennes / Show …
Nobody has yet been announced for the franchise’s biggest villain, but an interesting question is: When will the main actor for the role first show up? In the films, Fiennes didn’t appear until the forth movie, Goblet of Fire, as that’s when Voldemort first takes human form. But his face appears at the end of the first film (played by Richard Bremmer), and in the second film, he appears as his younger self, Tom Riddle (played by Christian Peter Coulson). Given the production has cast several roles that didn’t appear until the latter films, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if the production has quietly already cast an actor to play Voldemort throughout the entire series.