{"id":1775,"date":"2026-08-30T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:30:14","slug":"harry-potter-casting-dreams-are-officially-squashed-with-game-of-thrones-stars-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Casting Dreams Are Officially Squashed With Game Of Thrones Star\u2019s New Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are back in the realm of big news for HBO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/db\/tv-show\/harry-potter\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Harry Potter<\/em><\/strong><\/a> TV show, as casting and production for season 2 come under way. While the majority of primary roles were filled ahead of season 1, which premieres Christmas Day of 2026, a trickle of new characters debut with each of the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> books. This means that each and every season should come with new announcements. There&#8217;s more to come for season 2, certainly, but the big news for the moment is that <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/harry-potter-season-2-gilderoy-lockhart-kit-harington-cast-nicholas-hoult-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Game of Thrones<\/em>&#8216; Kit Harington will play Professor Gilderoy Lockhart<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are back in the realm of big news for HBO&#8217;s Harry Potter TV show, as casting and production for season 2 come under way. While the majority of primary roles were filled ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}