HBO’s Harry Potter series may still be months away from introducing audiences to its new Golden Trio, but work on the show’s second season is already gathering momentum. With production expected to begin before the end of the month, the young cast is preparing to return to Hogwarts—and one of its biggest stars has just given fans an early glimpse of what’s to come.
Arabella Stanton, who’s taking on Emma Watson‘s role of Hermione Granger in the new adaptation, has taken to Instagram to show off what she’s describing as a “fresh new look ahead of Season 2”, so it looks like she’s preparing for an imminent return to Hogwarts to film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
The post arrives just days after reports that HBO is wasting no time with the next chapter of the Wizarding World. According to ProductionList.com, Season 2 is currently scheduled to begin filming in August, despite Season 1 not premiering until Christmas Day, December 25, on HBO Max, which is a seriously aggressive turnaround but, as has been noted in the past, the cast need to shoot while they’re young because we can’t have a 33 year old Ron going for a pint before his next Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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Who Stars in ‘Harry Potter’?
Season 2 is adapting J.K. Rowling’sHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, following Harry’s second year at Hogwarts as mysterious attacks begin petrifying students throughout the castle. The novel introduces characters including Dobby, Gilderoy Lockhart and Moaning Myrtle, while also expanding the role of Lucius Malfoy, who will already have been introduced during the first season.
The cast of Harry Potter includes Dominic McLaughlin (Grow) as Harry Potter, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, John Lithgow(Conclave) as Albus Dumbledore, Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz) as Hagrid, Janet McTeer(Ozark) as Professor McGonagall, and Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) as Severus Snape.
Other Hogwarts students include Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Leo Earley as Seamus Finnigan, Alessia Leoni as Parvati Patil, Sienna Moosah as Lavender Brown, and Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley. Additional cast members include Bel Powley as Petunia Dursley, Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley, Bertie Carvel as Cornelius Fudge, Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, Louise Brealey as Madam Hooch, and Leigh Gill as Griphook.
Harry Potter will premiere on Christmas Day 2026 on HBO Max.
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