{"id":1670,"date":"2026-03-25T23:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:48:45","slug":"hbos-harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone-trailer-drops-and-release-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?p=1670","title":{"rendered":"HBO\u2019s Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone Trailer Drops and Release Date Announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; HBO released the first official trailer for the upcoming Harry Potter series. The trailer includes clips of the Dursleys, Hagrid, Professor McGonagall, Draco, Professor Snape, Albus Dumbledore, and, of course, our golden trio of Harry, Hermione, and Ron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dominic McLaughlin takes the lead as the boy who lived alongside the brightest witch of her age, Arabella Stanton, and our king, Alastair Stout. Nemesis, Draco Malfoy, is portrayed by Lox Pratt. Nick Frost takes on the mantle of half-giant Rubeus Hagrid. Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape are played by John Lithgow, Janet McTeer, and Paapa Essiedu, respectively. Amos Kitson, Bel Powley, and Daniel Rigby portray the Dursley family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"HBOtrailer\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#039;s Stone | Official Teaser | HBO Max\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RIu4sFKGi6E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Time Stamps(not linked):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-57fde5da wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">0:15 Dudley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">0:20 Petunia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">0:30 Harry receives his Hogwarts letter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">0:46 Hagrid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:01 Molly and Ron Weasley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:07 Hogwarts Express<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:09 Forbidden Forest<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:12 Interior Hogwarts shot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:14 McGonigal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:15 Sorting Hat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:18 Harry, Hermione, and Ron<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:20 Ollivander<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:23 Potions classroom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:25 Gryffindor common room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:26 Draco Malfoy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:28 Quidditch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:32 Herbology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:42 Snape<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1:43 Dumbledore<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/press.wbd.com\/us\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> released over a dozen stills of our new Potter cast to accompany HBO\u2019s trailer. These photos are of additional shots, not shown in the trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"671\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3.png 671w, https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-3-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><sub>Source: Warner Bros. Discovery &#8211; Aidan Monaghan\/HBO<br>Petunia and Vernon Dursley<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-4.png 685w, https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-4-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><sub>Source: Warner Bros. Discovery &#8211; Aidan Monaghan\/HBO<br>Harry, Hermione, and Ron at Hogwarts<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-5.png 680w, https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-5-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><sub>Source: Warner Bros. Discovery \u2013 Lara Cornell\/HBO<br>Draco Malfoy<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-6.png 677w, https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-6-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><sub>Source: Warner Bros. Discovery \u2013 Lara Cornell\/HBO<br>Severus Snape<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"681\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-7.png 681w, https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-7-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><sub>Source: Warner Bros. Discovery \u2013 Lara Cornell\/HBO<br>Albus Dumbledore<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ending our first look is the series\u2019 official release date, Christmas 2026!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Check out more series leaks and updates, <a href=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?cat=165\">HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; HBO released the first official trailer for the upcoming Harry Potter series. The trailer includes clips of the Dursleys, Hagrid, Professor McGonagall, Draco, Professor Snape, Albus Dumbledore, and, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,165,164],"tags":[79,151,77,101,248,119,254,113,265,176,16,75,76,283,241,19,96,253,78,171,161,322,309,220,503,242,162,159,313,502,252,32],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-harry-potter-series","category-shows","tag-79","tag-albus-dumbledore","tag-casting","tag-christmas","tag-draco-malfoy","tag-dumbledore","tag-dursley","tag-forbidden-forest","tag-gryffindor","tag-hagrid","tag-harry-potter-2","tag-harry-potter-series","tag-hbo","tag-hbo-max","tag-hermione-granger","tag-hogwarts-2","tag-hogwarts-express","tag-malfoy","tag-max","tag-mcgonagall","tag-minerva-mcgonagall","tag-molly-weasley","tag-ollivander","tag-philosophers-stone","tag-quidditch","tag-ron-weasley","tag-severus-snape","tag-snape","tag-sorting-hat","tag-trailer","tag-weasley","tag-wizarding-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}