Hogwarts Alumni

Luna Lovegood is cheering on the next generation. Evanna Lynch, who played the dreamy Ravenclaw across the Harry Potter films, has confirmed she’ll be watching the new HBO Max series this Christmas — and she’s happy to see a fresh young cast take over Hogwarts. View this Reel on Instagram Speaking at the Cork Midsummer…

Padma Patil is finally getting her say. With the HBO series on the horizon, Afshan Azad — who played Padma in the Harry Potter films from Goblet of Fire onward — has opened up about the Yule Ball costume her character wore and what making it was really like. In a video shared to her…

Wake up — it’s Draco Malfoy’s birthday, and the official Harry Potter Instagram has gone fully green-and-silver to celebrate. On June 5, the verified @harrypotter account (13.1M followers) rolled out what it’s calling a “#Dracover” — a complete profile takeover for the franchise’s favorite Slytherin. The account swapped its profile picture for a party-hatted illustration…

The Boy Who Lived has some distinctly fatherly feelings about the kids who are about to live it all over again. Daniel Radcliffe has been reflecting on what it’s like to watch a brand-new generation step into the roles that defined his own childhood — and the sight, he admits, is stirring up something unexpectedly…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Toyota Hrvatska (@toyota.hrvatska) Even a Triwizard champion, it turns out, can be talked into a test drive. Stan Yanevski — the Bulgarian actor who flew in as Viktor Krum in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — is the unlikely face of Toyota Croatia’s latest…

Accio nostalgia! The actor behind Arthur Weasley has thrown open his memory box, and the Wizarding World features heavily. In a reader Q&A with The Guardian, Mark Williams — who played the Weasley patriarch across seven Harry Potter films, beginning with 2002’s Chamber of Secrets — looked back on his years on set with obvious…

Cedric Diggory is thinking about term dates. Robert Pattinson, who played the Hogwarts champion in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, has revealed he already has his eye on a very particular first school for his two-year-old daughter — and it has a Wizarding World address. Speaking to GQ ahead of the release of…

Padfoot has given the reboot his blessing — he just won’t be moving back into Hogwarts. Gary Oldman, who played Sirius Black across the Harry Potter films, has weighed in on HBO’s upcoming series, and he’s firmly a fan of the idea even if he won’t be part of it. Speaking with Los Angeles Times…

Neville Longbottom is trading Herbology for hard secrets. Matthew Lewis, who grew up onscreen as Neville across the Harry Potter films, has landed a leading role in The Fortune, a new four-part psychological thriller for Channel 5. He stars opposite Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark) and Denis Lawson. Tomlinson plays Amanda Blakefield, a wife and mother whose…

More than twenty years after she first floated onto screens as Luna Lovegood, Evanna Lynch is still instantly recognisable to Potter fans — and she’s ready to be tested in ways the franchise never quite managed. Lynch was just 15 when she joined Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but her total screen…