Harry Potter Star Officially Confirms Iconic Scene Will Appear in HBO Series Season 2

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Published Oct 18, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT

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When you think of iconic moments from the Harry Potter series, you tend to think of the colorful duels, the battles between good and evil, but some of the best moments have come from simple, tense confrontations between classic characters. And by the sound of things, one of the most popular moments in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has already been filmed.

Rafe Spall, who plays Arthur Weasley in HBO's new Harry Potter series, has revealed that he's already shared scenes with Johnny Flynn, who plays Lucius Malfoy, alongside Kit Harington, who portrays Gilderoy Lockhart. Speaking to Deadline while promoting his new series The Death of Sherlock Holmes, Spall recalled working with his fellow cast members, strongly suggesting that the production has already filmed the famous Flourish and Blotts sequence from Chamber of Secrets.

The actor made the revelation while discussing the experience of working on the series, particularly his relationship with Katherine Parkinson, who plays Molly Weasley.

"There are fabulous actors involved. Katherine Parkinson and I play the Weasley parents, and to my mind, she’s one of the best actors in the world. She’s phenomenal. The other day it was me, her, Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn. It was just fun."

Spall is referring to the memorable confrontation between Flynn's Lucius Malfoy and his own Arthur Weasley in the Diagon Alley bookshop, just ahead of the book signing by Harington's Lockhart. It's where we see the first real sign of the antipathy shown towards Muggles, and Muggle-borns from the Malfoys. Arthur and Lucius go at each other over their differing attitudes, while it's also a key scene that features Lucius slipping Tom Riddle's diary into Ginny Weasley's books ahead of the new term.

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Fantasy World Do You Belong To? Middle-earth · Grand Line · The Continent · Camp Half-Blood

Pick your magic, your crew, where you want to wake up and who you would rather be fighting, and we will tell you which world you actually belong in. Four are open to you: an ancient kingdom living through its last good age, an endless sea full of pirates, a continent that pays people to kill monsters, and a summer camp where the Greek gods are extremely real and mostly a nuisance.

💍Middle-earth(Rings of Power)

👒Grand Line(One Piece)

🐺The Continent(The Witcher)

🔱Camp Half-Blood(Percy Jackson)

FIND YOUR WORLD →

01

What kind of power do you want? Every one of these worlds runs on a completely different sort of magic.

ASomething ancient and half forgotten that came down through my family. BSomething completely ridiculous that works in a fight and gets a laugh. CNo magic at all, just training, potions and a very sharp sword. DSomething I inherited from a parent I have barely met.

NEXT QUESTION →

02

Who is travelling with you? Nobody gets through any of these stories entirely on their own.

AA fellowship drawn from every corner of the world who barely trust each other. BA crew I picked up one at a time, all of whom would die for me. CTwo or three people I would never describe out loud as friends. DTwo mates from school who are exactly as out of their depth as I am.

NEXT QUESTION →

03

Where do you want to wake up tomorrow? The best fantasy is usually just somewhere you would genuinely like to live.

AA high city of white stone with the sea somewhere far below. BA ship under sail, with an island ahead that nobody has mapped. CA rented room over a tavern, in a town I am leaving in the morning. DA cabin at a summer camp with everybody else already awake outside.

NEXT QUESTION →

04

How are you making a living out there? Even in fantasy somebody has to pay for the horse.

AI am not, because somebody far older than me decided this was my duty. BTreasure, and I am not always careful about whose it used to be. CI take contracts, since people will pay well for what they will not touch. DI am fifteen and this is all technically a school trip.

NEXT QUESTION →

05

There is something in the woods. What do you do about it? All four of these worlds keep something unpleasant out there in the dark.

ASend word to somebody who has seen this before, then hold the line. BWalk straight in, because it is interesting and possibly edible. CAsk what it has been eating and what the village is willing to pay. DWork out which myth it escaped from, then improvise very badly.

NEXT QUESTION →

06

Who is the villain of your story? The enemy tells you far more about a world than the hero ever does.

AAn ancient evil that has been patient for several thousand years. BA government that has spent a long time calling itself the good guys. CA man who turns out to be far worse than anything I hunt for money. DA god, or possibly my own family, and quite likely both at once.

NEXT QUESTION →

07

What do you actually believe in out there? Every world hands its heroes one rule and asks them to hold onto it.

ASome things are worth defending even when the odds are hopeless. BNobody gets to tell me where I can go or what I am allowed to want. CPick the lesser evil, and never pretend afterwards that it was not evil. DMy friends come before anything a prophecy has to say about it.

NEXT QUESTION →

08

A thousand years from now, how are you remembered? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your world.

AIn a song, in a language hardly anybody still speaks. BAs the one who got there first and proved the whole thing was possible. CBarely, and mostly wrongly, in ballads I would absolutely hate. DOn a plaque at a camp, read by kids about to do the same thing.

REVEAL MY WORLD →

The Map Is Drawn Your World Is…

Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in return.

Middle-earth

You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.

  • This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat, fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends.
  • You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost everything you touch is older than your entire family line.
  • The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight.
  • You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.

The Grand Line

You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is finding out what is over there.

  • One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together.
  • You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea.
  • The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land harder because of that rather than in spite of it.
  • You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of it.

The Continent

You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the people are where it all gets complicated.

  • Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept.
  • You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer.
  • The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people.
  • You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story got told wrong.

Camp Half-Blood

You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as everybody kept telling you.

  • Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners, which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse.
  • You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for something nobody thought to test for.
  • The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud every time a prophecy tries to get in the way.
  • Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.

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HBO's 'Harry Potter' Is a Family Affair

Spall was also asked about the controversy surrounding J.K. Rowling, but Spall preferred to focus on the task at hand, stating that he wasn't on social media and had nothing to contribute. There was also a particularly amusing moment involving Spall's own family history with the franchise. His father, Timothy Spall, famously played Peter Pettigrew in the original movies, and Rafe revealed that he'd recently encountered Peter's animagus form, Scabbers the rat, while filming.

"It's funny that my dad played Ron's rat and now I'm playing Arthur Weasley. The other day I was on set and Ron's rat was there. I took a photograph next to it. If I had social media, I would post it."

The new adaptation stars Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley and Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, alongside John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, and Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape.

Harry Potter premieres on HBO and HBO Max in December 2026.

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Release Date 2026 - 2026

Showrunner Francisca Gardiner

Directors Mark Mylod

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