HBO has unveiled a brand new trailer for Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone, which begins with Harry (Dominic McLaughlin), Ron (Alastair Stout) and Hermione (Arabella Stanton) arriving for the sorting ceremony, the place they’re welcomed by tremendous enthusiastic Dumbledore “to a new year at Hogwarts.”
“Before the start-of-term banquet first years will partake in the sorting ceremony,” Professor Minerva McGonagall (Janet McTeer) is heard in a voiceover. We additionally see a lot of Dumbledore and Snape than we noticed within the first trailer.
“Let’s hope you show some talent on the Quidditch pitch, Potter,” says Severus Snape (Paapa Essiedu) to Harry, at one level within the trailer, which you see above.
Per the official Season 1 logline: There is nothing particular about Harry Potter – or so his Aunt Petunia tells him. But when a mysterious letter of admission to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry arrives, it opens the door to a hidden world of magic, friendship and journey. Yet behind Hogwarts’ enchanted partitions lie darkish secrets and techniques. Harry should discover the braveness to show himself towards the darkest wizard of all.
Season 1’s most important forged consists of Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Leo Earley as Seamus Finnigan, Elijah Oshin as Dean Thomas, Tristan Harland as Fred Weasley, Gabriel Harland as George Weasley, Ruari Spooner as Percy Weasley, Alessia Leoni as Parvati Patil, Sienna Moosah as Lavender Brown, Finn Stephens as Vincent Crabbe, William Nash as Gregory Goyle, Warwick Davis as Filius Flitwick and Sirine Saba as Pomona Sprout.
Additional forged consists of Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley, Bel Powley as Petunia Dursley, Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch, Johnny Flynn as Lucius Malfoy, Bertie Carvel as Cornelius Fudge, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, Katherine Parkinson as Molly Weasley, Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, Gracie Cochrane as Ginny Weasley, Richard Durden as Cuthbert Binns, Louise Brealey as Rolanda Hooch, Bríd Brennan as Poppy Pomfrey, Leigh Gill as Griphook and Anton Lesser as Garrick Ollivander.
Based on J.Ok. Rowling’s books, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is written and govt produced by Francesca Gardiner. Mark Mylod govt produces and directs a number of episodes of the sequence for HBO in affiliation with Brontë Film and TV and Warner Bros. Television. The sequence is govt produced by Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Brontë Film and TV, and David Heyman of Heyday Films.
The sequence will premiere Christmas 2026 on HBO and streaming on HBO Max.