HBO Harry Potter FINALLY CASTS VOLDEMORT (+2 Other MAJOR Roles)
Harry Potter Theory

HBO Harry Potter FINALLY CASTS VOLDEMORT (+2 Other MAJOR Roles)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 6, 202610 min
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In case you thought Harry Potter announcements were over for the week....You were wrong. TOPICS COVERED / QUESTIONS ANSWERED: Who is playing Tom Riddle in the HBO Harry Potter series? Who is Billy Barratt, the new Tom Riddle actor? Has HBO cast young Voldemort for Harry Potter Season 2? How will Billy Barratt compare to Christian Coulson as Tom Riddle? Who played Tom Riddle in the original Harry Potter films? Why was Christian Coulson replaced as Tom Riddle? Why did Frank Dillane play Tom Riddle in *Half-Blood Prince*? Who played young Voldemort before Ralph...

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Well folks, in a week that's been filled with Harry Potter updates, it looks like they're still coming, because three new cast members have officially been announced for HBO's reboot. And the biggest one is Billy Barrett, who has officially been cast as the teenage Tom Riddle for season two of the show. In other words, we finally know who will be playing the young man who eventually becomes Lord Voldemort.

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I find this one particularly interesting because Tom Riddle is played by so many different actors in the original film series. Today, I want to take a closer look at our new Tom Riddle, how he compares the actors who came before him, why the original films kept changing actors in the first place, and then toward the end we've also got two other major season 2 casting announcements

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to discuss, but I'll get into those later. Let's get into it. Tom Riddle's character is essentially the central mystery of the entire second book. Harry first encounters him through the mysterious diary that once belonged to Riddle when

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