Images of the new HARRY POTTER HBO Show |

Images of the New Harry Potter HBO Show

I curate and share one post a day for my followers and for fans of the genres I love. I thought this post would be appropriate this morning. Here’s a look at the new HBO Harry Potter show … at least, what we’ve seen so far.

I’ve credited each photo in the captions.

Harry Potter on HBO Max, Starring:

Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter
Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley
Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger
Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid
John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore
Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall
Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape

First, here’s the cast of actors, each pictured next to their original counterpart: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Draco, Neville, and Hargrid. Below that, a few of the professors:

The Cast (So Far):

Photo from Teen Vogue

Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape. Image from Nerdtropolis

Here are some secondary cast members, announced via the Harry Potter YouTube channel in September 2025, including one actor returning to the franchise:

Photos of Harry Potter (Dominic McLaughlin) and Hagrid (Nick Frost):

Harry Original (Daniel Radcliffe) next to HBO version (McLaughlin); from The Hollywood Reporter

Hagrid (Nick Frost) and Harry, from The Hollywood Reporter

Harry and Hagrid, from People

Harry HBO and Harry Original; image from The Today Show

Professor Dumbledore, Portrayed by John Lithgow

Image from The Last Movie Outpost

Image from The Last Movie Outpost

The New Diagon Alley:

Image from The Sun

Image from The Sun

This is a sprawling series with a reported budget of $1.2 billion for Season 1, at $100+ million per episode. It will premiere on HBO Max in 2027 with eight episodes. As HBO releases more images, I’ll post them here at Life After Gateway. You can see more cast members at the official IMDB page, here.

And finally, here is the HBO teaser for this show, from two years ago:

Watch this space as HBO releases more images.

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AN UNSTOPPABLE THREAT!

A mysterious assassin has murdered Cliff Sim, Chief Security Officer of the underwater colony, Trieste. Cliff was a mountain of a man, highly trained, and impossible to defeat in combat. And yet …

Someone brutally beat him and left his broken body in a secret Chinese facility at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

And included a calling card for Truman McClusky, Mayor of Trieste.

Taunting him.

Mac has led the underwater colonies in their fight against the world’s superpowers. Climate change has devastated the surface; nations suffer famine, drought, rebellion, rising waters, and apocalyptic coastal flooding. But now, as Mac leads the underwater colonies to freedom and independence, he’s faced with the gravest threat of his life: a Russian assassin, hellbent on killing Mac and everyone he cares for. Now Mac must uncover the identity of the killer, face him in combat, and at the same time lead people in battle against the largest underwater force ever assembled. It’s Mac’s final test, and to win the war, he must use every tool at his disposal, including the most surprising and devastating underwater weapons ever invented.

If Mac fails, all hope is lost for the future of human colonization on the ocean floors.

But the assassin could be anyone …

Watch your back, Mac.

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The other books in The Rise of Oceania series by Timothy S Johnston:

The War Beneath 9781771484718
The Savage Deeps 9781771485067
Fatal Depth 9781554555574
An Island of Light 9781554555819
The Shadow of War 9781554556007