{"id":393,"date":"2025-03-07T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2025-03-13T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:10:14","slug":"paapa-essiedu-is-severus-snape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Paapa Essiedu Is Severus Snape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Paapa Essiedu will be Professor Snape!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/harry-potter-series-mcgonnagall-snape-casting-1236313232\/\">Deadline<\/a>, Essiedu and HBO are closing their deal for the HBO Harry Potter Series, releasing in 2026\/2027. The actor was previously speculated to have been offered the role, but negotiations were not confirmed. This news comes just over one week after John Lithgow confirmed his role as Professor Dumbledore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"433\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6.png 433w, https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"> <sub> Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14190592\/mediaviewer\/rm2594772737\/\">IMDB<\/a><br>Paapa Essiedu in The Lazarus Project <\/sub> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That is not all! Janet McTeer is reportedly in negotiations to play Professor McGonagall. With the production date slowly getting nearer, we hope to hear more confirmations soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?tag=casting\">HERE<\/a> for more casting news!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Paapa Essiedu will be Professor Snape! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to Deadline, Essiedu and HBO are closing their deal for the HBO Harry Potter Series, releasing in 2026\/2027. The actor was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,165,164],"tags":[54,79,80,77,16,75,76,78,171,161,162,159],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-harry-potter-series","category-shows","tag-54","tag-79","tag-80","tag-casting","tag-harry-potter-2","tag-harry-potter-series","tag-hbo","tag-max","tag-mcgonagall","tag-minerva-mcgonagall","tag-severus-snape","tag-snape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}