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HBO Found Its New Harry Potter Trio
Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton, and Alastair Stout will star as the Boy Who Lived and pals.
While news surrounding the forthcoming adaptation slowly trickled along — John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as McGonagall, Nick Frost as Hagrid, and, somewhatcontroversially, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape — none of it was the marquee attraction. But at last, after “tens of thousands of children who auditioned,” HBO has announced its new golden trio: Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley. In the 20th-anniversary special that aired in 2021 on HBO, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson all spoke about the ways in which Chris Columbus and the crew on the first two movies protected them, making the environment feel genuinely like they were all going to school together.
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